Four teams from the Cascade Collegiate Conference and one from the Frontier Conference have been grouped to form the NAIA West in 2016 and will be competing for an automatic bid to the national tournament.
The five teams in the NAIA West :
British Columbia (Cascade Collegiate Conference)
College of Idaho (Cascade Collegiate Conference)
Corban (Cascade Collegiate Conference)
Lewis-Clark State (Frontier Conference)
Oregon Tech (Cascade Collegiate Conference)
All will be participating in a scheduling alliance that features round-robin play. Each team plays four home and four road series. Each series consists of four games.