The road to Oklahoma City for 64 teams begins this Friday with the Softball Tournament of the NCAA 2025 ready to start. The group for this year’s field was presented on Sunday night and some things about this year’s tournament are clear.
To begin with, the SEC is by far the best conference in this sport, since 14 of the 16 teams in the league arrived in the field.
Perhaps the most important and impressive, seven of the eight best seeds in the tournament were for sec teams, being the only atypical No. 5 Florida state. The seminoles were one of the nine ACO teams to reach the field, but only one of the three that will organize the opening weekend games, joining No. 14 Duke and No. 11 Clemson.
That means that if the regional round goes to the chalk, seven of the eight super regional sites will be played on the SEC campuses, which could lead to a heavy Sec University World Series.
Texas A&M He was granted general seed number 1 despite never playing against the number 2 of reigning national champions No. 2 this season. Softball fans were stolen from what would have crowded between the soners and the Aggies last weekend in Athens, Go. As the SEC championship game rained. Texas A&M has a solid case for sown thinking number 1, since they have 19 Top 25 victories, which is the largest amount in the country. The AGGIES also obtained victories over strong enemies without a conference such as Florida State and Texas Tech.
South Carolina obtained the final seed of today, ensuring the rights of super regional hosts in case the Gamecocks advanced so far. South Carolina is an incredible memorable season under the first year coach Ashley Chastain Woodard and won 40 games despite being chosen to finish the last one in the SEC this season. It will be the first time since 2018 that the Gamecocks are organizing a regional, which was also the last time they advanced to a regional super.
“When you look at Carolina del Sur, they have 17 Top 25 victories and that was key in that area,” the President of the NCAA Softball Committee, Kurt McGuffin, told ESPN. “They get used to and challenge themselves throughout the year. Six of those 25 main victories were out of the conference, so we like to see teams where the calendar of non -conference and conference is real -desafiant.”
If the Gamecocks arrive at the second weekend of the tournament, they could face a UCLA team with something to demonstrate. The Bruins received the seed number 9 after a 49-10 season, and this postseason marks the first time since 2016 that UCLA has not been a seed of the last eight. Bruins are a power in university softball, with eight world series offers since 2015.
Alabama was the last SEC team to take a national seed, being located 15 to organize a regional opening weekend. It is the twentieth consecutive season that Crimson Tide has to Gods a seed of the 16 best in the tournament. However, they have a defiant regional capsule that includes a couple or 40 victories in Virginia technology And Belmont. Hokies and Marea in February, dividing two games in Tuscaloosa.
Meanwhile, Belmont is armed with one of the best pitchers in the country of Maya Johnson, who leads the nation in strikeouts with 343. Belmont faces Virginia Tech at 3:30 pm and Friday at ESPN+.
Other intriguing regional clashes include one between North Carolina and Ohio state In Knoxville, Tennessee. In the NCAA tournament for the first time since 2019, the Tar Heels are led by nations Leader in races promoted in Kat RodríguezWhile Buckeyes possibly have the most explosive offensive in the country, since they lead sports in home runs with 137.
The state of UNC and Ohio will meet at 4 pm et on Friday in ESPNU. It is likely that the winner between the Tar Heels and the Buckeyes faces Tennessee and the SEC pitcher of the year Karlyn Pickens, who is the second national at the time with a mark of 0.92.
