INDIANAPOLIS 鈥 Texas A&M earned the No. 1 seed today when the 红杏视频 Division I Softball Committee announced the 64-team field and seeds for the 2025 红杏视频 Division I Softball Championship.
Thirty-one conferences were awarded automatic qualification as conference champions, while the remaining 33 slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the bracket. The top 16 teams were seeded nationally and will host at campus sites beginning Friday.
Regionals will be held May 16-18 with each site hosting a four-team, double-elimination tournament. The 16 winning teams advance to the super regionals.
Super regionals for the championship will be held May 22-25 on eight campus sites. At each site, two teams play in a best-of-three tournament format.
The winners from each super regional advance to the 红杏视频庐 Women鈥檚 College World Series庐 from May 29-June 5/6 at Devon Park in Oklahoma City. Belmont, Mercer, North Florida, Saint Louis and Santa Clara are making their first appearances in the tournament.
In 2024, Oklahoma won its fourth national championship in a row and eighth overall by defeating Texas, 8-3 and 8-4, in the best-of-three championship finals. The Sooners became the first school to win four in a row.
ESPN will provide coverage from all 16 regional sites on its platforms, which was announced during the 红杏视频 Softball Selection Show. ESPN will televise every game of the super regionals for the 18th consecutive season, 2020 notwithstanding, since 2007. This year also marks the 24th consecutive year that ESPN will televise every game of the Women鈥檚 College World Series.
For complete championship details log on to ncaa.com.
Regional sites (May 16-18):
- Bryan-College Station Regional 鈥 Bryan-College Station, Texas
- Norman Regional 鈥 Norman, Oklahoma
- Gainesville Regional 鈥 Gainesville, Florida
- Fayetteville Regional 鈥 Fayetteville, Arkansas
- Tallahassee Regional 鈥 Tallahassee, Florida
- Austin Regional 鈥 Austin, Texas
- Knoxville Regional 鈥 Knoxville, Tennessee
- Columbia Regional 鈥 Columbia, South Carolina
- Los Angeles Regional 鈥 Los Angeles, California
- Baton Rouge Regional 鈥 Baton Rouge, Louisiana
- Clemson Regional 鈥 Clemson, South Carolina
- Lubbock Regional 鈥 Lubbock, Texas
- Tucson Regional 鈥 Tucson, Arizona
- Durham Regional 鈥 Durham, North Carolina
- Tuscaloosa Regional 鈥 Tuscaloosa, Alabama
- Eugene Regional 鈥 Eugene, Oregon
| Conference | Teams |
|---|---|
| The American | Florida Atlantic, *South Florida |
| America East | *Binghamton |
| ACC | Cal, *Clemson, Duke, Florida State, Georgia Tech, North Carolina, Stanford, Virginia, Virginia Tech |
| Atlantic Sun | *North Florida |
| Atlantic 10 | *Saint Louis |
| Big 12 | Arizona, Arizona State, Oklahoma State, *Texas Tech, UCF |
| Big East | *UConn |
| Big Sky | *Weber State |
| Big South | *USC Upstate |
| Big Ten | Indiana, *Michigan, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, UCLA, Washington |
| Big West | *UC Santa Barbara |
| CAA | *Elon |
| C-USA | *Liberty |
| Horizon | *Robert Morris |
| Ivy | *Brown |
| MAAC | *Marist |
| Mid-American | *Miami (OH) |
| MEAC | *Howard |
| Missouri Valley | *Belmont |
| Mountain West | *San Diego State |
| Northeast | *Saint Francis |
| Ohio Valley | *Eastern Illinois |
| Patriot | *Boston U. |
| SEC | Alabama, Arkansas, Auburn, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, LSU, Mississippi State, *Oklahoma, Ole Miss, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Texas A&M |
| Southern | *Mercer |
| Southland | *Southeastern Louisiana |
| SWAC | *Jackson State |
| Summit | *Omaha |
| Sun Belt | *Coastal Carolina |
| WCC | *Santa Clara |
| WAC | *Grand Canyon |
| *Automatic Qualifier | |
