Oklahoma City – Oklahoma could extend its record of consecutive national titles to five in the World World Series this year.
The second sowing sooners of Patty Gasso will face the number 7 of Tennessee in his WCWS opener. Oklahoma beat Alabama on Saturday to win the Super Regional Norman.
The action in the double elimination support of eight teams begins Thursday in Devon Park. The two final teams will play for the title in a series of the best of three from June 4.
Gasso, who will train the United States at the 2028 Summer Olympic Games, has taken the Sooners to eight national titles, including six of the last eight and seven of 10. This was the first season of Oklahoma at the Southeast Conference.
In other clashes of the opening day, the third sown Florida will play with the number 6 of Texas, the sown No. 9, UCLA meets the number 16 of Oregon sown and the sown No. 12 Texas Tech will face Mississippi without seeds.
Oklahoma will face the Tennessee Karlyn Pickens star, who broke her NCAA record by launching a 79.4 mph launch during Saturday's victory over Nebraska. Pickens then excluded the 1-0 cornhuskers on Sunday.
The loss of Nebraska means that Oklahoma will not face the former Sooners pitcher, Jordy Bahl, who was transferred to his cornhuskers in the local state after being named the most prominent player of the World Series 2023 with Oklahoma.
Although the general seed No. 1 Texas A&M was knocked out in the regional game, the SEC has five teams in the field: Oklahoma, Tennessee, Florida, Texas and Ole Miss.
Florida beat Georgia in three games to advance. The Gators won national titles in 2014 and 2015 and lost to Oklahoma in the semifinals last year.
Texas has reached the best championship series in two of the last three seasons, and both losses arrived in Oklahoma. The Longhorns are also in their first season at the SEC.
Texas Tech and Ole Miss are classifying for the first time.
Texas Tech beat Florida State in a regional super. The Nijaree Canady launcher, the University player of softball of last year, took Stanford to national semifinals two consecutive years before transferring to technology. She took the Reders to her first titles of the regular season and the tournament.
Ole Miss is the only remaining non -sown team. The rebels beat Arizona twice to win the regional Tucson and defeat Arkansas in Super Regional.
UCLA and Oregon will meet in a confrontation of former PAC-12 teams that moved to Big Ten this year.
Oregon, the Big Ten regular season champion, defeated Upstart Liberty to move forward. Liberty surprised Texas A&M in the regional game, but could not overcome the Ducks.
UCLA was reduced to his last eye against South Carolina in game 2 before winning, then he took the 3rd game. The Bruins could add to their 12 record titles of the World Series.
