Oregon State, the last softball-sponsoring school remaining in the Pac-12, will house most of its non-football sports, including softball, in the
West Coast Conference for at least the 2025 and 2026 seasons.[16]
In addition to these changes, the
Indiana University and
Purdue University systems will split
IUPUI into separate IU- and Purdue-affiliated institutions at the end of the 2023–24 academic year, a move similar to the two systems' dissolution of their joint
Fort Wayne campus in 2018. The
IUPUI athletic program will be transferred to the new IU Indianapolis, maintaining IUPUI's memberships in Division I and the
Horizon League.[20]
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March 3 –
Louisiana defeated
Oklahoma 7–5 in 8 innings, ending the
Sooners' Division I-record 71-game winning streak.[21]