Following the best season in program history, which ended in the national semifinals, Auburn will try to get back to the Women's College World Series by going through a 2016 schedule that includes 15 teams from last year's NCAA Tournament.

The Tigers will play 33 home games, including SEC series with defending national champion Florida (March 12-14), South Carolina (March 25-27), Georgia (April 22-24) and Texas A&M (May 6-8).

Auburn returns nearly all of its offense and its top three starting pitchers from a squad coming off a program-record 56-win season and No. 3 overall finish in the NFCA rankings in 2015.

Auburn will open the 2016 season with a five-game home stand starting on Feb. 11 against Appalachian State at 6 p.m. at the newly-expanded Jane B. Moore Field.

The Tigers will take on Western Kentucky, Butler and Furman during The Plainsman Invite (Feb. 12-Feb.14).

Auburn hits the road to Orlando, Florida to face UCF (Feb. 17) before heading to Clearwater for the Michele Smith Invitational (Feb. 19-21) to face Oklahoma State, USF, James Madison, DePaul and Fordham.

The last two non-conference tournaments are the Tiger Invitational (Feb. 26-28), which includes Boston College, St. John's, Western Illinois and Indiana State, and Wilson/DeMarini Classic (March 4-6), which includes Indiana, Murray State, Bryant and Georgia State.

Auburn also has single-game midweek games against Boston College (Feb. 25), UAB (March 1) and Murray State (March 3).

A two-game series with Tennessee State (March 9) will be the final games before the start of conference play.

Auburn will play SEC road series at Mississippi State (March 18-20), Kentucky (April 1-3), Arkansas (April 15-17) and Tennessee (April 30-May 2).

Single games at Samford (March 16) and Georgia State (March 23) and home games with Troy (April 6) and a two-game series with Florida State (April 20) are mixed in with the conference schedule.

All conference game times/dates are subject to change as the SEC has yet to release its national television schedule, which should be released in January.

The complete schedule can be seen here.