NCAA Division I Softball Tournament

The NCAA Division I Softball Tournament is held annually in May/June and features 64 college softball teams in the United States, culminating in the Women's College World Series (WCWS), which is played in Oklahoma City.

NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
Current season, competition or edition:
2020 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament
SportCollege softball
Founded1982
No. of teams64
Most recent
champion(s)		UCLA (12th title)
Most titlesUCLA (12 titles)
TV partner(s)ESPN
ESPN2
Official websiteNCAA.com

Tournament play and team selection

The tournament is unique in that it features four tiers of competition and a loss does not necessarily eliminate a team from contention. In fact, throughout the entire tournament a team can lose a total of four games and still be crowned champions.

There are a field of 64 teams to compete is the tournament. Half of the teams gain automatic entry into the tournament while the other half is selected by the Division I Softball committee. From there, 16 teams will be seeded and placed at one of the assigned regional sites.[1]

During team selection the top sixteen teams are given "national seeds", which are used for organizing the brackets. The first tier, called "regionals", consists of 16 locations that include four teams competing in a double elimination bracket. The regional containing overall #1 seed will be matched up with the regional containing the overall #16 seed, the #2 seed will be matched up with the #15 seed, and so on. The winner of each regional moves on to the second tier, the "super regionals".

The super regionals are played at eight locations throughout the country and consist of the 16 surviving teams, with the higher seeded team usually hosting. Two teams are matched up at each location and they play a best-of-three series to determine who moves on to the Women's College World Series.

The final eight teams meet in Oklahoma City in the Women's College World Series. The WCWS is further divided into two sections. The first part resembles the regional tier, as teams are broken in two groups of four to play in a double-elimination bracket. The winners of each bracket then meet in a championship series, held at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium, which is similar to the super regional tier in that it is a best-of-three series. The winner of the WCWS is crowned national champion.

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See also
  • AIAW Intercollegiate Women's Softball Champions

References
  1. "Road to the Championship | NCAA.com". www.ncaa.com. Retrieved 2020-03-31.
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