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.

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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.

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