Right here’s who I feel has the hardest regional schedule and most difficult path to the Ladies’s School World Sequence, earlier than the 2025 NCAA softball event will get underway.
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Once I first checked out the bracket, my quick response was that Arizona, Tennessee, LSU and Alabama have the hardest regionals. Arizona has a red-hot Ole Miss coming off a SEC event quarterfinal run in addition to Grand Canyon. Tennessee has Ohio State, which leads the nation in residence runs, North Carolina led by Kat Rodriguez and Miami (OH), which has 24 losses however is led by Jenna Golembiewski and has beforehand knocked off prime groups.
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LSU in all probability has the hardest regional with Nebraska, UConn and Southeastern Louisiana. Anybody who was paired with Jordy Bahl and the Huskers would’ve had an unfortunate draw. Bahl is among the finest gamers within the nation and impacts the sport on either side of the ball. Plus, UConn has some big-time bats in its lineup.
However, since this evaluation additionally contains the hardest path to the Ladies’s School World Sequence, I needed to go along with Alabama. The Crimson Tide earned the No. 15 nationwide seed and is matched up with Virginia Tech, Belmont and Jackson State of their regional. Many would argue that Virginia Tech ought to have been a regional host itself. With the nation’s prime residence run hitter in Cori McMillan and one of many prime pitchers in Emma Lemley, the Hokies aren’t any joke.
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Belmont, too, might current some issues with Maya Johnson within the circle.
If Alabama does make it out of its regional, which it very nicely might, it is seemingly the Tide will match up with Oklahoma in tremendous regionals. On this state of affairs, the Tide could be making a visit to Norman to play in entrance of one of many hardest crowds in school softball and the four-time reigning nationwide champs.
