NCAA SEC Field: 14 Teams Will Compete in 2025 NCAA Softball Tournament

In 2025, 14 Southeastern Conference teams will play in the NCAA Division I Softball Championship.

The SEC set a new NCAA record for the most teams from a single conference to compete in the championship with 14 teams present. In 2017, the Conference set a record with 13 teams, then in 2018, 2019, and 2024, they tied that record three more times.

Additionally, the SEC tied its own 2018 record by securing nine national seeds—including seven of the top eight—for the 2025 NCAA Tournament. Defending National Champion Oklahoma (45-7) won the No. 2 seed, while Texas A&M (46-10) earned the No. 1 overall seed for the first time in program history. Arkansas (40-12) was seeded No. 4, and Florida (43-14) was seeded No. 3. Texas was seeded sixth (46-10), while Tennessee (40-14) was seeded seventh. No. 8 seed South Carolina (40-15) and No. 10 seed LSU (41-14) were tabbed. The SEC’s No. 15 seed, Alabama (37-21), completed the national seeds.

Additionally, Georgia (31–20) will participate in the Durham Regional, while Auburn (32-22) is going to the Tallahassee Regional. Ole Miss (37-17) will play at the Tucson Regional, while Kentucky (29-26) secured a spot at the Clemson Regional. The team that will compete at the Lubbock Regional is Mississippi State (37-17).

Each location will hold a four-team, double-elimination tournament during the regionals, which are scheduled for May 16–18. The 16 winning teams move on to the super regionals, which will take place on eight campus locations from May 22–25. Two teams compete in a best-of-three tournament style at each location. Each super regional champion advances to the NCAA® Women’s College World Series®, which will take place at Devon Park in Oklahoma City from May 29 to June 5/6.

A total of nine SEC teams have advanced to the Women’s College World Series since 1997: Alabama (2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2021, 2023, 2024), Auburn (2015, 2016), Florida (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2022, 2024), Georgia (2009, 2010, 2016, 2018, 2021), Kentucky (2014), LSU (2001, 2004, 2012, 2015, 2016, 2017), South Carolina (2007), Tennessee (2005, 2006, 2007, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2023), and Texas A&M (2017).

Since the tournament’s inception in 1982, thirteen schools have emerged victorious as NCAA Division I softball champions, including two SEC teams. On June 7, 2012, Alabama defeated Oklahoma 5–4 to win the first national championship in SEC history. After defeating Alabama in the 2014 best-of-three series, Florida defeated Michigan in the 2015 WCWS Championship Series to become the third program in NCAA softball history to win consecutive national titles. Oklahoma won the National Title eight times before joining the SEC, including six in the last eight years (2000, 2013, 2016, 2017, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024).