The winners of these tournaments, plus the Big Ten, Big West, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, and WCC regular-season champions, received automatic invitations to the 2021 NCAA Division I softball tournament. The Wildcats were blasted by fourth-seeded TCU Wednesday morning. Two conferences that normally hold tournaments, the Big Ten and Mid-American Conference, did not do so in 2021. Texas will take on Kansas State in the first elimination game of the day, beginning at 10 a.m. We have officially reached the postseason portion of the Big 12 softball schedule, with the conference tournament set to start this Thursday. ET in an elimination game, meaning at least one of the regular season co-champions will go home after the final out is recorded. West Virginia will square off against Oklahoma State Thursday afternoon at 1:30 p.m. The 2022 Big 12 Conference softball tournament was held at USA Softball Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma from May 12 through May 14, 2022. “You just got to hope you play well enough to be one of the ones that go 2-0.” Just one day into the postseason, and the three best teams are all one game away from being eliminated. 500, and still managed to hold the Longhorns to just three runs Wednesday afternoon.Īs the eight teams converged in Arlington, the tournament appeared wide open. Kansas finished the season five games below. Oklahoma is still just one season removed from a trip to Omaha. The Red Raiders entered the postseason with the most potent and explosive lineup in the conference. “The lower seeds aren’t lower seeds because their teams aren’t better.” “That’s the tell-tale sign that you got a good league if the three co-champs all lose the first game, and the lower seeds win the first game,” said WVU head coach Randy Mazey after midnight, following his team’s loss to Texas Tech. Seeds 1, 2, and 3 are all in the losers’ bracket.Īdd it to the growing list of examples of how deep the conference is in nearly every sport, and how treacherous it is to have the proverbial target on your back. Seeds 6, 7, and 8 are all in the winners’ bracket. Oklahoma, Oklahoma State and Texas combined to outscore opponents. The Big 12 was the only Conference with multiple national seeds that went undefeated during the weekend. This marks the fourth consecutive season the Conference has had 43 of the league advance past regionals. 3 seed West Virginia by a final score of 6-2. All three Big 12 national seeds advanced to the Super Regional round of the 2023 NCAA Division I Softball Championship. The tournament’s first day ended with sixth-seeded Texas Tech silencing No. 2 seed Oklahoma State fell 9-5 in a Bedlam rematch to seventh-seeded Oklahoma the Sooners led by as many as seven runs early on. All three of the league’s regular season co-champions suffered defeats to the three lowest-seeded teams in the tournament field. ARLINGTON, Texas - Day one of the Phillips 66 Big 12 Conference Championship tournament was a doozy.
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