There’s a major change coming to how teams in the NCAA softball tournament will be seeded in 2026.
College softball’s postseason will begin seeding the top 32 teams in the tournament, following the same model used by women’s soccer and volleyball. Softball America was the first to report the change.
The top 16 national seeds will still host during the tournament’s opening weekend, but seeding 1-32 will reward better teams with more favorable matchups.
For example, No. 1 Texas A&M was upset during the opening weekend of the 2025 tournament by Liberty, which would’ve been tabbed as the No. 26 seed. In this new format, Texas A&M would have faced No. 32
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