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The bracket's almost complete and it's fully charged. All eight top national seeds survived to play in the Women's College World Series starting Thursday in Oklahoma City.

The state of Alabama is home to two of the eight teams still alive in the title hunt. No. 4 seeded Auburn (54-9) will play No. 5 LSU at 1:30 p.m. CT Thursday in the program's first WCWS appearance.

Alabama, the No. 6 seed with a 47-13 record, will play Michigan (55-6) at 6 p.m. CT in the double-elimination event. The three-game championship series starts June 1.

Five of the eight teams will come from the SEC including all four of the schools on Auburn's side of the bracket. LSU, Florida and Tennessee joined the two Alabama representatives. It's the first time since 1999 that five schools from one conference made the WCWS, according to ESPN, and it was the Pac-10 who did it last.

Alabama and Auburn are on the opposite side of the bracket.

Auburn advanced to its first WCWS with a super regional sweep of Louisiana-Lafayette. It included a wild comeback down five runs in the seventh inning of Game 1 to win 12-11 in eight winnings.

Alabama will make its 10th trip to Oklahoma City after a dramatic three-game series with Oklahoma capped by a 5-3 victory Saturday night.

The winner of Alabama-Michigan will meet the survivor of No. 2 Oregon meeting with No. 7 UCLA. An Auburn win in Round 1 will set up a game with the Florida-Tennessee winner. The losers of both games will face each other Saturday.

Florida is the defending national champion after beating Alabama 2-0 in the championship series last June.

WCWS game times (with national seeds)

1. Florida vs. 8. Tennessee: 11 a.m. CT

4. Auburn vs. 5. LSU: 1:30 p.m. CT

6. Alabama vs. 3. Michigan: 6 p.m. CT

2. Oregon vs. 7. UCLA: 8:30 p.m. CT