After multiple years of discussion, NCAA softball will follow the footsteps of Women’s Volleyball & Women’s Soccer, seeding 32 teams. This does not change the 16 national seeds, but should help reward the top seeds with ‘easier’ matchups. The seeding will not be a straight 1-32 matchup to allow the NCAA to protect the 400-mile […]
After multiple years of discussion, NCAA softball will follow the footsteps of Women’s Volleyball & Women’s Soccer, seeding 32 teams. This does not change the 16 national seeds, but should help reward the top seeds with ‘easier’ matchups.
The seeding will not be a straight 1-32 matchup to allow the NCAA to protect the 400-mile geographic proximity parameters when possible and prevent conference matchups in regionals.
College Softball Seeding 1-32
This is a mock of what a 1-32 seeding would possibly look like based on this past NCAA Tournament seeding.
1. Texas A&M
32. Arizona State
2. Oklahoma
31. UCF
3. Florida
30. Cal
4. Arkansas
29. FAU
5. Florida State
28. Kentucky
6. Texas
27. Virginia
7. Tennessee
26. Liberty
8. South Carolina
25. Stanford
9. UCLA
24. Georgia
10. LSU
23. Ohio State
11. Clemson
22. Nebraska
12. Texas Tech
21. Auburn
13. Arizona
20. Mississippi State
14. Duke
19. Ole Miss
15. Alabama
18. Oklahoma State
16. Oregon
17. Virginia Tech
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