History
In February 15, 1890, the Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Association was formed in the foremost successful attempt to organize Kansas colleges for the purposes of promoting & regulating amateur intercollegiate athletics. Additionally to a personal universities & colleges, the conference as well involved Kansas Agriculture College (currently Kansas State University), Kansas University, and Washburn University.

All about 1902 a association allied with the Kansas College Athletic Conference, the number one class action to adopt a definite placed of system & regulations. Per 1920s the conference had changed its title to Kansas Collegiate Athletic Conference & experienced grown to include Xvii regular members & Ii allied members. Inside 1923 seven colleges withdrew to form the Central Conference.

In December 1, 1928, the Kansas Intercollegiate Athletic Conference was formally disbanded & replaced by the newly Kansas College Athletic Conference which involved Sextet members & formed a present legal respire. It was normally known as a "Little Six", around direct contrast to a Large Six which one of these days became the todays Big 12. By 1968 the conference grew to include 12 members. It was organized into Northern & Southern divisions until 1970 when three colleges withdrew to join Missouri-depending conferences. In the mid-1970s the name was changed to its todays form.

Members
A conference is presently comprised of decade independent or even personal institutions of higher learning from either inside Kansas. A members (& season admitted):

Bethany College (1928) Bethel College (1939) Friends University (1953) Kansas Wesleyan University (1928) McPherson College (1928) Ottawa University (1981, previously the member 1928-1970), University of Saint Mary (1999) Southwestern College (1958) Sterling College (1958) Tabor College, Kansas (1968)

Former members
St. Mary's College, discontinued 1931 (member since 1928) Baker University, withdrew 1970 (member since 1928) College of Emporia, withdrew 1970 (member since 1933) Ottawa University, withdrew 1970 (member since 1928) and rejoined 1981 St. Mary's of the Plains College (Dodge City), withdrew 1992 (member since 1968)

Sports
A KCAC sponsors athletic contest inside men’s baseball, men’s and women’s basketball, men’s and women’s cross country, men’s football, women’s golf, men’s and women’s soccer, women’s softball, men’s and women’s tennis, men’s and women’s track and field, and women’s volleyball.