2012 BIG SKY REGULAR SEASON STANDINGS BIG SKY CONFERENCE WLT Idaho State*^$ 6-2-1 Portland State* 6-2-1 Montana* 6-2-1 Weber State 5-3-1 Northern Colorado 4-2-3 Eastern Washington 3-3-3 Northern Arizona 3-3-3 Sacramento State 3-4-2 Southern Utah 1-7-1 North Dakota 0-9-0
Big Sky Matches PTS PCT. GF GA WLT 19 .722 15 8 11-6-3 19 .722 17 5 9-8-2 19 .722 13 5 12-6-3 16 .611 10 5 7-10-2 15 .611 13 5 6-7-5 12 .500 8 12 6-8-4 12 .500 7 8 5-9-5 11 .444 9 11 5-9-4 4 .167 6 13 3-11-2 0 .000 3 29 2-13-1
Overall Record PCT. GF .625 32 .526 26 .643 25 .421 19 .472 20 .444 19 .395 15 .389 20 .250 15 .156 15
GA 25 18 18 21 22 29 28 27 26 48
* Co-Big Sky Regular Season Champions ^ Big Sky Championship Host $ Won Big Sky Conference Tournament title and earned the league’s automatic NCAA Tournament bid.
2012 BIG SKY CHAMPIONSHIP 2012 BIG SKY CHAMPIONSHIP Host: Idaho State Pocatello, Idaho Nov. 2 & 4, 2012
CHAMPIONSHIP - Sun., Nov. 4 No. 1 Idaho State 0, No. 3 Montana 0 (ISU wins shootout, 4-3) SEMIFINALS - Fri., Nov. 2 No. 1 Idaho State 1, No. 4 Weber State 1 (ISU wins shootout, 4-3) No. 3 Montana 3, No. 2 Portland State 2
THE BIG SKY CONFERENCE
The Big Sky Conference is an NCAA Division I member in all sports, with member institutions classified in the Football Championship Subdivision (formally I-AA). The Big Sky celebrates its 51st year of athletic competition in 2013-14. After spending six years as a nine-team league, the league expanded to 11 teams last season. North Dakota and Southern Utah joined the league in all sports while Cal Poly and UC Davis became affiliates for football only, making the Big Sky a 13-team football league. There are 10 soccer-playing schools in the conference as Montana State does not field a team. In addition to the new schools, the Big Sky includes Eastern Washington, Idaho State, Montana, Montana State, Northern Arizona,
Northern Colorado, Portland State, Sacramento State and Weber State. Northern Colorado was the newest member of the league, having joined the conference in 2006. The Big Sky was established in 1963 by six charter members – Idaho, Idaho State, Gonzaga, Montana, Montana State and Weber State. Those six schools formed the foundation of the Big Sky before the league expanded in 1970 by adding Boise State and Northern Arizona. Gonzaga left the league in 1979 and was replaced by Nevada, which gave the league eight members. The conference grew to nine schools in 1987 with the addition of Eastern Washington. The 1990s saw change in the makeup of the league, beginning in 1992 when Nevada departed and put the Big Sky back at eight teams. In 1996 Boise State
and Idaho left and the conference added Portland State, Sacramento State and Cal State Northridge. The Big Sky maintained nine teams for five years before Cal State Northridge departed in the spring of 2001. The Big Sky spreads across nine states, spanning from the Pacific Ocean to the Rocky Mountain Front. The Big Sky is represented along the entire west coast with schools in Washington, Oregon and California. League schools also range up and down the Rocky Mountains with institutions in Montana, Idaho, Utah, Arizona, North Dakota and Colorado. Of the eight westernmost states in the contiguous United States only one, Nevada, is not represented in the Big Sky.
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