OU number 1 national softball seed. Bracket & story.

[Plainosooner]

For the second straight year, the SEC top teams get some protection. They avoid any Pac 12 teams until the second round of the WCWS if seeds hold. AND they got all 13 in. Three teams with higher RPI than A&M got left out, to get the Aggies in.

Surprisingly Bama is the 8 seed. More surprisingly Florida, who was 6th place in the SEC regular season, but won the CCT, gets a 5 seed. But Bama gets the lowest RPI tournament in the tournament in the first round, so they can save their ace for game two.

Good news, Minnesota was seeded 7th. Bad news, they got by far the toughest regional of all hosts. Way way tougher than every SEC team, including four seeded behind them. Their number 4 seed is a higher RPI than the number 3 seed of every SEC team.

1 OU
2 UCLA
3 Washington
4 Florida State
5 Florida
6 Arizona (4th in the RPI and won 2 of three at UCLA over the weekend. Go figure.)
7 Minnesota
8 Alabama
Any of these teams that host and win, will also host a regional
9 Texas in Bama's Super
10 LSU in Minnesota's Super
11 Ole Miss in Arizona's Super
12 Tennessee in Florida's Super
13 OSU in FSU's Super
14 Kentucky in Washington's Super
15 Michigan in UCLA's Super
16 Northwestern in OU's Super
You'll notice that no highly ranked SEC team plays at UCLA or OU, considered the two monster teams. They left that to two of the Big Ten's big three. Then they put Minnesota at 7, but gave them Drake RPI 23 with one of the best pitchers in the country, Georgia RPI 25, and their 4th seed is N Dakota St, RPI 49. As they did last season, they want to ensure as much as possible that the SEC gets two to the WCWS.

 

[Plainosooner]

The whole bracket:
1 OU 1 seed RPI 1
4 UMBC 204

2 Notre Dame 34
3 Wisconsin 38
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1 Northwestern 16 seed RPI 11
4 Detroit Mercy 203

2 Louisville
3 Southern Illinois
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1 Alabama 8 seed RPI 7
4 Alabama St 257

2 Arizona St 28
3 Lipscomb 40
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1 Texas 9 seed RPI 6
4 Sam Houston St 85

2 Houston 39
3 Texas A&M 55
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1 Florida State 4 seed RPI 5
4 Bethune-Cookman 210

2 South Carolina 20
3 South Florida 31
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1 Oklahoma St 13 seed RPI 12
4 BYU 97

2 Arkansas 22
3 Tulsa 26
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1 Florida 5 seed RPI 10
4 Boston U 104

2 Stanford 27
3 Boise St. 33
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1 Tennessee 12 seed RPI 13
4 Longwood 74

2 North Carolina 29
3 Ohio State 37
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1 UCLA 2 seed RPI 3
4 Weber St 118

2 Mizzou 30
3 Cal St Fullerton 46
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1 Michigan 15 seed RPI 16
4 St Francis PA

2 James Madison 14
3 DePaul
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1 Minnesota 7 seed RPI 8
4 N Dakota St 49

2 Drake 23
3 Georgia 25
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1 LSU 10 seed RPI 9
4 Monmouth 151

2 Texas Tech 19
3 Louisiana Tech 50
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1 Washington 3 RPI 2
4 Fordham 128

2 Mississippi St 32
3 Seattle 57
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1 Kentucky 14 seed, RPI 15
4 Toledo

2 Virginia Tech 24
3 Illinois 44
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1 Arizona 6 seed RPI 4
4 Harvard 116

2 Auburn 21
3 Colorado State 35
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1 Ole Miss 11 seed RPI 17
4 Chattanooga 104

2 Louisiana 18
3 SE Missouri St 65

 

[Soonerborn59]

None of this surprises me one bit and quite honestly I doubt it shocked anyone with any knowledge that this committee continues to give SEC teams regionals. Its no different than in football and baseball the SEC gets way to much love.

A&M getting in at 28-25 is laughable. The Norman regional with UMBC, Wisconsin and Notre Dame is at the very least the 2nd toughest regional. FSU at 4 seems to have no real challengers to FSU.

Again none of this should surprise anyone.