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The 2020 NCAA Division I Softball season, play of college softball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division I level, began February 6, 2020. The season ended on March 12, 2020, when the NCAA cancelled all winter championships and spring sports seasons due to the coronavirus pandemic. [1]
The 2023 season was the last for 14 softball schools in their current conferences, as well as the aforementioned Hartford's only season as a D-I independent. BYU , Houston , and UCF moved to the Big 12 Conference .
Additionally, eight NCAA sports—all men's sports—were sponsored by fewer Division I schools in 2020 than in 1990, despite the D-I membership having increased by nearly 60 schools during that period. Four of these sports, namely wrestling, swimming & diving, gymnastics, and tennis, lost more than 20 net teams during that timeframe.
According to the NCAA's 2023-24 pre-championship manual, provided to the USA TODAY Network, there is no change in the run-ahead rule in the NCAA Softball Tournament or the Women's College World ...
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.
What to know ahead of the NCAA Softball Tournament and Women's College World Series: Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...
The final rounds of the NCAA tournaments are known as the Women's College World Series (WCWS); one is held on each of the three levels of competition sanctioned by the NCAA. The Division I Women's College World Series is held annually in June at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City near the site of the National Softball Hall of Fame .
Oklahoma would've had a run-rule win in game one of the 2022 final series against Texas, but the NCAA decided not to enact the run-rule in that season's series despite the Sooners beating the ...