Sooners Tabbed No. 1 Overall Seed

NORMAN — The defending national champion Oklahoma softball team has been tabbed the No. 1 overall seed in the 2022 NCAA Division I Softball Championship and will host the NCAA Norman Regional at Marita Hynes Field, May 20-22.

It marks the third straight season the Sooners (49-2, 17-1 Big 12) have been the No. 1 seed. The program has been a national seed for each of the past 15 seasons, hosting a regional for the 11th year in a row. This is the fourth time in program history that the Sooners have been the top-seeded team, also earning the No. 1 spot in 2013, 2019 and 2021.

The four-team, three-day event features Texas A&M (29-26, 6-18 SEC) facing Minnesota (26-24-1, 11-12 Big 10) at 4 p.m. CT Friday on ESPN2 before the Sooners take on Prairie View A&M (20-27, 16-8 SWAC) at 6:30 p.m. CT Friday on ESPN+.

Friday's winners will square off in the first of three games Saturday, while Friday's losing teams will face off in an elimination game for game two of Saturday's tripleheader. The loser of Saturday's first game will take on the winner of the day's second game in an elimination game later Saturday night. The winner of Saturday's final game will take on the winner of the day's first game on Sunday with an if-necessary rematch scheduled for later on Sunday.

The winner of this weekend's regional will advance to the NCAA Super Regional round against the winner of the Orlando regional, hosted by 16-seed Central Florida, the following weekend with the ultimate goal of reaching the 2022 Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City.

Oklahoma has made the NCAA Tournament 28 straight seasons overall and every year of head coach Patty Gasso's tenure since 1995 (tournament was not played in 2020). The Sooners have advanced to the WCWS each of the past five seasons.

In 2021, OU reached its 14th WCWS in program history, culminating in the program's fifth national championship. The Sooners have won three of the past five WCWS crowns.

With five national titles (2000, '13, '16, '17, '21) Oklahoma trails only UCLA (12) and Arizona (8) for most in NCAA history, and no other team has more than two.

Season-ticket holders that requested postseason tickets will be charged Monday, May 16th in accordance with the confirmation email they received last week from the OU Ticket Office.

A limited number of remaining general admission all-session tickets will go on sale to the public on Tuesday at 10:00 am. General admission all-session tickets will be $75 a piece and will get you into each game of the tournament. If tickets remain, single session seats will go on sale Wednesday at 10:00 am.

Check back with SoonerSports.com or the OU Ticket Office (SoonerSports.com/tickets; (405) 325-2424) for updates.

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