Oklahoma has gained the previous three Girls’s Faculty World Sequence championships. However its Pink River rival Texas on Sunday acquired the No. 1 general seed within the 2024 NCAA softball event for the primary time in program historical past.
The Sooners (49-6) defeated the Longhorns 5-1 on Saturday night time to win their ninth Huge 12 event title. However Texas (47-7) captured the Huge 12 regular-season crown in its closing yr as a member of the convention, highlighted by a sequence victory over Oklahoma in early April.
Oklahoma is seeded second. SEC regular-season champion Tennessee acquired the No. 3 general seed, adopted by No. 4 Florida, which gained the SEC event title.
No. 5 Oklahoma State, No. 6 UCLA, No. 7 Missouri and No. 8 Stanford spherical out the highest eight, all of which is able to host tremendous regionals in the event that they advance from the opening spherical subsequent weekend.
Texas ended the common season with 16 straight victories, a streak that started with a pair of wins over Oklahoma. However the Sooners made a late push for the No. 1 seed for a fifth yr in a row. Oklahoma left-handed pitcher Kelly Maxwell shut down Texas’ highly effective lineup within the Huge 12 event title recreation, placing out seven whereas giving up solely two hits over 5⅓ innings.
The committee finally valued the Longhorns’ general physique of labor extra.
“We always had Texas within the No. 1 seed,” choice committee chair Kurt McGuffin mentioned throughout Sunday’s choice present. McGuffin added that the Longhorns’ national-best 16 wins towards top-25 opponents helped sway the committee.
Texas is led by Reese Atwood, who leads the nation with 86 RBIs. She is batting .427 with 22 house runs.
The Longhorns (.383) and Sooners (.367) are No. 1 and a couple of within the nation in batting common. McGuffin famous that Texas and Oklahoma had been the clear high two seeds.
Texas will host Siena, together with Northwestern and Saint Francis (Pa.) in its regional.
Oklahoma’s regional will embrace Cleveland State, Oregon and Boston.
Tennessee will face Dayton, Virginia and Miami (Ohio), which leads the nation with 157 house runs.
The remaining high 16 seeds went to No. 9 LSU, No. 10 Duke, No. 11 Georgia, No. 12 Arkansas, No. 13 Louisiana, No. 14 Alabama, No. 15 Florida State and No. 16 Texas A&M, which completed third within the SEC standings.
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Of the highest 16 seeds, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Oklahoma State, Stanford, Alabama and defending nationwide runner-up Florida State superior to the WCWS final yr.
The SEC paced the sector with half of the highest 16 seeds, not together with Texas and Oklahoma, which is able to be a part of the convention subsequent season.
BYU, Louisville, Texas Tech and Wichita State had been the primary 4 overlooked of the event, in response to ESPN’s choice present.
Regionals start Friday, with tremendous regionals set for Might 23-26. The Girls’s Faculty World Sequence begins Might 30 in Oklahoma Metropolis, with the finals June 5-7.