 The conference ceased operations with the 2019-20 Winter Season due the final spring season being canceled because of the 2020 Coronavirus Outbreak.The Big Eight Conference was created in 1980 when seven members of the Southern Indiana Athletic Conference (Boonville, Jasper, Mount Vernon, Princeton, Tell City, Vincennes Lincoln, and Washington) left to form a new conference with a member of the Pocket Athletic Conference (Gibson Southern).Gibson Southern left in 1992 to rejoin the PAC.