This will get you excited for this year's WCWS This will get you excited for this year's WCWS INDIANAPOLIS—The University of Oklahoma earned the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division I Softball Championship as the 64-team field was announced today by the NCAA Division I Softball Committee. The Sooners will host the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, an automatic qualifier from the America East. FULL BRACKET: View the 2019 interactive bracket | Schedule and teams Thirty-two conferences were awarded an automatic qualification, while the remaining 32 slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the bracket. The top 16 teams were seeded nationally and will play at campus sites beginning this Thursday. Team pairings were determined by geographic proximity, with the exception that teams from the same conference were not paired during regional competition. The Southeastern Conference led all leagues with 13 teams selected to the championship tournament. The Big Ten Conference placed six teams in the championship tournament. Two teams are making their first appearance in the tournament: Detroit Mercy University and Seattle University. Since the tournament began in 1982, only 13 schools have been crowned the NCAA Division I softball champion. 11 of the 13 teams will compete in this year’s bracket. CHAMPIONSHIP SEASON: Buy tickets and schedule your trip to the 2019 Women's College World Series DATES/SITES/PAIRINGS: *Indicates Host Institution Norman Regional – May 17-19 at Norman, Oklahoma No. 1 seed Oklahoma* (49-2) vs. UMBC (30-22) Notre Dame (36-16) vs. Wisconsin (40-12) Evanston Regional – May 17-19 at Evanston, Illinois Southern Ill. (33-13) vs. Louisville (33-21) Detroit Mercy (31-26) vs. No. 16 seed Northwestern* (43-10) Austin Regional – May 17-19 at Austin, Texas No. 9 seed Texas* (41-14) vs. Sam Houston St. (34-21 ) Texas A&M (28-25) vs. Houston (37-17) Tuscaloosa Regional – May 17-19 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama Arizona St. (33-18) vs. Lipscomb (41-13-1) Alabama St. (24-23) vs. No. 8 seed Alabama* (52-7) Gainesville Regional – May 17-19 at Gainesville, Florida No. 5 seed Florida* (44-15) vs. Boston U. (37-18) Stanford (32-18) vs. Boise St. (34-14) What better way to get career win 💯 than with a strikeout in the @SECSBTourney championship game? #NCAASoftball (via @GatorsSB) pic.twitter.com/mzf0qMGF5J — NCAA Softball (@NCAAsoftball) May 12, 2019 Knoxville Regional – May 17-19 at Knoxville, Tennessee North Carolina (35-18) vs. Ohio St. (34-16) Longwood (37-20) vs. No. 12 seed Tennessee* (39-14) Stillwater Regional – May 16-18 at Stillwater, Oklahoma No. 13 seed Oklahoma St.* (39-14) vs. BYU (29-24) Arkansas (38-18) vs. Tulsa (35-18) Tallahassee Regional – May 17-19 at Tallahassee, Florida South Carolina (36-17) vs. South Fla. (40-17) Bethune-Cookman (26-29) vs. No. 4 seed Florida St.* (51-8) Seattle Regional – May 17-19 at Seattle, Washington No. 3 seed Washington* (45-7) vs. Fordham (29-24) Mississippi State (33-21) vs. Seattle U. (39-15) Lexington Regional – May 17-19 at Lexington, Kentucky Virginia Tech (45-9) vs. Illinois (32-23) Toledo (29-26) vs. No. 14 seed Kentucky* (33-22) Oxford Regional – May 17-19 at Oxford, Mississippi No. 11 seed Ole Miss* (37-17) vs. Chattanooga (37-15) Louisiana (50-4) vs. Southeast Mo. St. (45-16) Tucson Regional – May 17-19 at Tucson, Arizona Auburn (37-19) vs. Colorado St. (38-10) Harvard (25-17) vs. No. 6 seed Arizona* (42-12) Minneapolis Regional – May 17-19 at Minneapolis, Minnesota No. 7 seed Minnesota* (41-12) vs. North Dakota St. (42-14) Georgia (40-17) vs. Drake (42-14) This Selection Show Sunday wait has us feeling all sorts of ways... pic.twitter.com/D47Pid5ZkW — Minnesota Softball (@GopherSoftball) May 12, 2019 Baton Rouge Regional – May 17-19 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana Texas Tech (39-14) vs. Louisiana Tech (44-14) Monmouth (36-16) vs. No. 10 seed LSU* (40-16) Ann Arbor Regional – May 17-19 at Ann Arbor, Michigan No. 15 seed Michigan* (43-11) vs. Saint Francis (PA) (29-29) James Madison (47-7) vs. DePaul (34-14) Los Angeles Regional – May 17-19 at Los Angeles, California Missouri (32-23) vs. Cal St. Fullerton (38-16) Weber St. (26-19) vs. No. 2 seed UCLA* (46-5) CHAMPIONSHIP STRUCTURE: The committee held selections on May 10-12. The 64-team field was selected from 296 NCAA Division I institutions sponsoring softball. Of the 64 teams, 32 teams received an automatic qualification with the remaining best 32 teams selected on an at-large basis. Full list of automatic qualifiers: *The Big 12, A-10 and AAC softball tournaments were canceled due to inclement weather and field conditions. The Big 12's auto-bid to the NCAA tournament was awarded to Oklahoma, the regular season champs. The AAC auto-bid goes to USF, the highest remaining seed in the conference tournament. Fordham gets the A-10's auto-bid after winning the regular season championship. Regionals will be held May 16-19 on 16 campus sites. At each campus site, a four-team, double-elimination tournament will be conducted, and the 16 winning teams advance to the Super Regionals. Due to rain in Amherst, the final game of the #A10SB Championship has been canceled. No. 1 @FordhamSoftball and No. 3 @GW_Softball are named Co-Champions and Regular season champion Fordham receives the A-10 automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament. Story: https://t.co/UfzWqBQxxO pic.twitter.com/36srPglSWC — Atlantic10Conference (@atlantic10) May 12, 2019 Super Regionals for the championship will be held May 23-26 on eight campus sites. At each site, two teams play in a best-of- three tournament format. The winners from each site advance to the NCAA® Women’s College World Series (WCWS). SEEDING/SITES: Teams were selected to the field of 64 teams. The top 16 teams were seeded in order, and the remaining teams are paired by geographic proximity, with the exception that teams within the same conference were not paired during regional competition. CHAMPIONSHIP NOTES: 2018 highlights: Florida State defeated Washington, 8-3, to win its first-ever WCWS title. For complete championship details log on to www.ncaa.com. SHOP SOFTBALL CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP GEAR FROM FANATICS<doc-sep>Oklahoma was unveiled as the No. 1 overall seed in the 2019 NCAA softball tournament when the bracket was revealed on Sunday. The top-ranked Sooners (49-2) bring a 39-game winning streak into the tournament, which is a Division I single-season record and eight wins shy of the 47 consecutive games Arizona won across the 1996 and 1997 seasons. Oklahoma, led by undefeated pitching ace Giselle Juarez (22-0, 1.26 ERA) and Big 12 player of the year Sydney Romero (.427 batting average, 17 home runs), is looking to win its third championship in four years. The Sooners lead the nation in ERA, home runs per game and batting average. Oklahoma's most recent loss came on Feb. 22 to UCLA (46-5), which got the No. 2 seed on Sunday. The Bruins are led by reigning Pac-12 player and pitcher of the year Rachel Garcia, who is one of two collegiate players chosen to represent Team USA this summer. Reigning national champion Florida State (51-8), the only other team to beat Oklahoma this season, is the No. 4 seed. The Seminoles defeated North Carolina on Saturday to earn their sixth consecutive ACC tournament title. Meghan King, who won both games of the championship series a year ago in Oklahoma City, led the Seminoles with a 29-5 record and a 1.36 ERA. FSU is the only seeded team from the ACC. Washington (45-7), the runner-up a season ago, is seeded third this year. For the third year in a row, all 13 SEC teams made the 64-team tournament field, with Florida (fifth), Alabama (eighth), LSU (10th), Ole Miss (11th), Tennessee (12th) and Kentucky (14) among the top 16 seeds. The six seeded teams mark the most seeded teams of any conference. Florida, which won the SEC tournament title on Saturday with a 2-1 win over Alabama, seemingly got the most generous seeding of the SEC teams. Although they won the most recent encounter with the Tide, the Gators were swept in three games by Alabama last month in Gainesville. Alabama (52-7) was ranked fourth in the most recent ESPN.com/USA Softball Top 25, and Florida was ranked 11th. The Tide have the most wins of any team in the tournament. The double-elimination regional round begins Thursday and concludes Sunday. The 16 winners advance to super regionals, which will be held at eight sites May 23-26. Eight teams advance to the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City, which opens May 30. The 2019 national champion will be crowned June 4 or 5.<doc-sep>Tonight at 6 pm PT, the UCLA softball team will find out their seeding for this year’s NCAA Softball Tournament and the Women’s College World Series. 2019 NCAA Softball Selection Show Time: 6:00 pm PT, Sunday, May 12, 2019 TV: ESPN2 Live Stream: WatchESPN Interactive Bracket While UCLA finished the regular season tied with Washington for first place in the Pac-12 standings, the Bruins earned the conference’s automatic bid by virtue of their head-to-head record against the Huskies. As in years past, the tournament field will consist of 64 teams with 32 conference champions receiving an automatic bid and 32 earning at-large bids. Sixteen teams will be seeded and, typically, the seeded teams host the Regional competitions the first weekend of the tournament. This year, the Regionals will take place from May 17 to May 19 while the Super Regionals will take place from May 23 to May 26 at eight campus sites Even if the Bruins slip in the seedings due to this weekend’s two losses to Arizona, it would be a surprise if UCLA is not seeded in the top 5 or if UCLA is not in line to host both a Regional and Super Regional, assuming the team gets that far. This year’s selection show will air at 6 pm PT on ESPN2 and WatchESPN.com. Go Bruins! Bring home 118!! !<doc-sep>
While UCLA stumbled a little this weekend when they lost their first series of the season to the Arizona Wildcats, it did not harm the Bruins when it came to seeding for the NCAA Softball Championship. UCLA has earned the #2 national seed and will face the Weber State Wildcats on Friday at 8 pm PT on ESPNU. The other two teams playing in the Los Angeles Regional will be the Missouri Tigers and Cal State Fullerton Titans who will meet at 5:30 pm PT on Friday. While UCLA did not play Weber State this season, they did play both Missouri and Cal State Fullerton. The Bruins beat the Tigers on February 22 by a score of 11-3 in six innings and they beat the Titans 5-1 on March 26. The Regionals are played in a double elimination format with the winner advancing to the Super Regionals, which the higher seeded team will host. Assuming the Bruins advance, they would host the Super Regional as well because they are the #2 national seed and they will play the winner of the Ann Arbor Regional, which features #15 seed Michigan, James Madison, DePaul and St. Francis. There are a total of five Pac-12 teams in this year’s tournament. Washington is the number three national seed while Arizona is the number six national seed. Stanford and Arizona State have also been selected to play for the championship. While the complete interactive bracket can be viewed on NCAA.com, here is a printable version. Go Bruins!!! Bring home 118!! !