The Crimson Tide found out its NCAA Tournament seeding and opponents on Sunday night.
It has been an up-and-down season for Alabama softball, but the Crimson Tide is a top-16 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Alabama softball was announced as the No. 14 overall seed and will host USC Upstate , Southeastern Louisiana and Clemson in Tuscaloosa this weekend, May 17-19. The Crimson Tide finished the regular season with a 33-17 record and first-round loss in the SEC Tournament to LSU. Alabama was below .500 in SEC play for the first time in program history, losing seven of its eight series. However, the Tide finished with an RPI of 15 and no bad losses on its resume.
The top-16 seeds each get to host a regional, and the top-eight teams will host a super regional if they advance. And the winners of the eight super regionals will reach the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City. Alabama has 14 WCWS appearances, including last season. Alabama and Tennessee remain the only two programs to be a national seed every season since the format was first introduced in 2005.Katie Windham is the assistant editor for BamaCentral, primarily covering football, basketball gymnastics and softball. She is a two-time graduate of the University of Alabama and has covered a variety of Crimson Tide athletics since 2019 for outlets like The Tuscaloosa News, The Crimson White and the Associated Press before joining BamaCentral full time in 2021.
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