INDIANAPOLIS — Texas A&M earned the No. 1 seed as we speak when the NCAA Division I Softball Committee introduced the 64-team area and seeds for the 2025 NCAA Division I Softball Championship.
Thirty-one conferences had been awarded automated qualification as convention champions, whereas the remaining 33 slots had been stuffed with at-large picks to finish the bracket. The highest 16 groups had been seeded nationally and can host at campus websites starting Friday.
Regionals shall be held Could 16-18 with every web site internet hosting a four-team, double-elimination event. The 16 successful groups advance to the tremendous regionals.
Tremendous regionals for the championship shall be held Could 22-25 on eight campus websites. At every web site, two groups play in a best-of-three event format.
The winners from every tremendous regional advance to the NCAA® Ladies’s School World Sequence® from Could 29-June 5/6 at Devon Park in Oklahoma Metropolis. Belmont, Mercer, North Florida, Saint Louis and Santa Clara are making their first appearances within the event.
In 2024, Oklahoma gained its fourth nationwide championship in a row and eighth general by defeating Texas, 8-3 and 8-4, within the best-of-three championship finals. The Sooners turned the primary college to win 4 in a row.
ESPN will present protection from all 16 regional websites on its platforms, which was introduced in the course of the NCAA Softball Choice Present. ESPN will televise each recreation of the tremendous regionals for the 18th consecutive season, 2020 however, since 2007. This 12 months additionally marks the twenty fourth consecutive 12 months that ESPN will televise each recreation of the Ladies’s School World Sequence.
For full championship particulars go browsing to ncaa.com.
Regional websites (Could 16-18):
- Bryan-School Station Regional — Bryan-School Station, Texas
- Norman Regional — Norman, Oklahoma
- Gainesville Regional — Gainesville, Florida
- Fayetteville Regional — Fayetteville, Arkansas
- Tallahassee Regional — Tallahassee, Florida
- Austin Regional — Austin, Texas
- Knoxville Regional — Knoxville, Tennessee
- Columbia Regional — Columbia, South Carolina
- Los Angeles Regional — Los Angeles, California
- Baton Rouge Regional — Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Clemson Regional — Clemson, South Carolina
- Lubbock Regional — Lubbock, Texas
- Tucson Regional — Tucson, Arizona
- Durham Regional — Durham, North Carolina
- Tuscaloosa Regional — Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Eugene Regional — Eugene, Oregon
| Convention | Groups |
|---|---|
| The American | Florida Atlantic, *South Florida |
| America East | *Binghamton |
| ACC | Cal, *Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Stanford, Virginia, Virginia Tech |
| Atlantic Solar | *North Florida |
| Atlantic 10 | *Saint Louis |
| Massive 12 | Arizona, Arizona State, Oklahoma State, *Texas Tech, UCF |
| Massive East | *UConn |
| Massive Sky | *Weber State |
| Massive South | *USC Upstate |
| Massive Ten | Indiana, *Michigan, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, UCLA, Washington |
| Massive West | *UC Santa Barbara |
| CAA | *Elon |
| C-USA | *Liberty |
| Horizon | *Robert Morris |
| Ivy | *Brown |
| MAAC | *Marist |
| Mid-American | *Miami (OH) |
| MEAC | *Howard |
| Missouri Valley | *Belmont |
| Mountain West | *San Diego State |
| Northeast | *Saint Francis |
| Ohio Valley | *Japanese Illinois |
| Patriot | *Boston U. |
| SEC | Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, *Oklahoma, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M |
| Southern | *Mercer |
| Southland | *Southeastern Louisiana |
| SWAC | *Jackson State |
| Summit | *Omaha |
| Solar Belt | *Coastal Carolina |
| WCC | *Santa Clara |
| WAC | *Grand Canyon |
| *Computerized Qualifier | |
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