On Sunday, the NCAA announced the 64 teams who would compete in the 2023 NCAA Division I Softball Championship. Oklahoma was seeded No. 1 overall with No. 2 seed UCLA and No. 3 seed Florida State rounding out the Top-3 seeds.
The field of 64 teams is filled by 32 teams who automatically earned a spot because they were conference champions and the remaining 32 slots were filled with at-large selections.
Regionals are May 19-21 with each of the 16 campus sites hosting a four-team, double-elimination tournament with the 16 winning teams advancing to super regionals. Super regionals are May 25-28 on eight campus sites. The two teams at each site will play in a best-of-three tournament format.
The winners from each super regional then advance to the Women’s College World Series (WCWS). The WCWS takes place on Jun. 1 at OGE Energy Field at the USA Softball Hall of Fame Complex in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
Oklahoma is looking to defend their 2022 national title while some teams like Charlotte, Eastern Illinois, George Mason, North Carolina Central, Northern Colorado, Northern Kentucky and Omaha, are making their first ever appearance in the tournament.
No. 1️⃣ National Seed 🥎
🅾️ @OU_Softball
#RoadToWCWS pic.twitter.com/PZCVbX3Ffa— NCAA Softball (@NCAASoftball) May 14, 2023
You can watch the full Selection Sunday chaos here.
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