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The 2023 NCAA Division I softball tournament was held from May 19 through June 8, 2023, as the final part of the 2023 NCAA Division I softball season. The tournament culminated with the 2023 Women's College World Series at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City. [1]
A total of 64 teams compete in the tournament. 32 teams gain automatic entry into the tournament while the other 32 are selected by the Division I Softball committee. From this field of 64, 16 teams will be given "national seeds" and placed at one of the assigned regional sites, often the home field of each national seed.
NCAA Division I champions are the winners of annual top-tier competitions among American college sports teams. This list also includes championships classified by the NCAA as "National Collegiate", the organization's official branding of championship events open to members of more than one of the NCAA's three legislative and competitive divisions.
While dominant pitching can carry a softball team to the Division 1 title, hard-hitting and top-seeded Norco is the team to beat in Southern Section.
Roosevelt scored four times in the bottom of the seventh to stun Los Alamitos 5-4 in the Southern Section Division 1 softball championship game.
Orange Lutheran, Garden Grove Pacifica advance to the Southern Section Division 1 softball championship game with wins Saturday.
Two Division I members, both sponsoring softball, adopted new names after the 2022 season. Neither school's nickname was affected. Dixie State University changed its forward-facing name to Utah Tech University in May 2022, ahead of the legal name change on July 1. The nickname remains Trailblazers.
The NCAA held its first six Division I tournaments in Omaha in 1982–1987, followed by Sunnyvale, California, in 1988–1989. The event has been held in Oklahoma City every year since then, except for 1996, when it was held at the softball venue for the '96 Olympic Games in Columbus, Georgia .