The Duke softball team knows its Super Regional opponent.
The 10th-seeded Blue Devils will travel to Columbia to play No. 7 Missouri in the best-of-three series beginning on Friday. The winner will advance to the Women’s College World Series, a bracket Duke has not reached in program history.
The Tigers defeated Omaha 1-0 in the Columbia Regional Final on Sunday just hours after Duke clinched the Durham Regional with a dominant win over South Carolina.
Despite Duke’s 50 wins this season, three more than Missouri’s 47, the Tigers will host due to their higher seed.
The Blue Devils made a Super Regional in each of the past two seasons, but they have yet to win a game in this round of the NCAA postseason. The Stanford Cardinal swept them out of the proceedings in 2023, winning 3-1 and 7-2. UCLA did the exact same thing the year before, beating Duke by one run in the first game before an 8-2 win to clinch the series.
Columbia Super Regional
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The first game of the series starts at 2 p.m. on Friday.