With the 2025 NCAA softball event bracket right here, Michella Chester and D1Softball’s Jenna Becerra and Amanda Lorenz picked groups that might shock as a darkish horse. They restricted their picks to groups that had been seeded No. 3 or No. 4 of their regionals.
Unseeded groups to maintain your eye on 👀@michellachester and @D1Softball’s @JennaBecerra01 and @amandalorenz18 choose their darkish horse groups within the 2025 event!#RoadToWCWS pic.twitter.com/2MzUh9EEki
— NCAA Softball (@NCAASoftball) Might 14, 2025
Michigan
Lorenz went with Michigan. The Wolverines are coming off a powerful Huge Ten event, going 4-0 with spectacular shutout wins over No. 9 nationwide seed UCLA and No. 16 seed Oregon and are a staff that’s taking part in its greatest softball proper now.
READ MORE: Bracket picks for the 2025 softball event, from regionals by way of the WCWS
North Carolina
Becerra picked North Carolina. That is the Tar Heels’ first NCAA event look since 2019, so there’s some further motivation. UNC has had some large wins this season, taking a sport from No. 11 nationwide seed Clemson in ACC play and profitable a sequence over one other event staff in Georgia Tech. The Tar Heels have some big-time impression gamers like Kat Rodriguez, who leads the nation with 83 RBI and tops the ACC in batting common (.453).
UNC additionally has expertise within the circle with Kenna Raye Darkish, who went virtually 13 innings pitched with out an earned run within the ACC event, going toe to toe with Virginia Tech’s Emma Lemley.
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Grand Canyon
Chester picked Grand Canyon. The Antelopes are a staff that did not make an excessive amount of noise compared with another groups, however they have an RPI of 32 and are 46-6 on the season. So that they know methods to win — they usually have performed top-ranked groups and even crushed some. Grand Canyon misplaced solely 6-4 to No. 3 nationwide seed Florida and beat Arizona State. Grand Canyon additionally has a lead-off batter hitting over .500 in Savannah Kirk and an ace within the circle with Megan Golden boasting a 0.92 ERA.
