Grand Canyon changes course and drops WCC for Mountain West Conference

This is the school’s final year in the Western Athletic Conference.

GCU will not play football in the Mountain West, where there is football. There are no plans for GCU to have football.

It has always prided itself on being a basketball school.

The Lopes will compete against the likes of New Mexico, Nevada, UNLV, Wyoming, San Jose State, Air Force, UTEP and Hawaii.

“We are incredibly grateful for the Mountain West Conference’s interest in GCU and their recognition of the value we bring to its members,” GCU President Brian Mueller said in a school release. “Lope Nation has grown primarily because of the innovative strategies and creative delivery models that allow us to offer cutting-edge academic programs both on our campus and across the country. That has created an enormous amount of momentum that will benefit our athletics programs comes.”