Alabama Softball Earns No. 6 Seed in NCAA Tournament

TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — For the third straight season, Alabama softball is a top-eight seeded group within the NCAA Match. Met by cheers within the group clubhouse, the Crimson Tide was introduced because the No. 6 general seed Sunday night. 

Chattanooga (29-25), Murray State (40-16-1) and Stanford (36-19) will be a part of the Crimson Tide within the Tuscaloosa regional. 

Alabama has received 43 straight video games in Regional play courting again to 2007. The Crimson Tide has 23s posted across the clubhouse to suggest the the 23 straight seasons Alabama has made the NCAA match.  

If the Crimson Tide had been to advance to the subsequent spherical, it might match up with the 11-seed Tennessee. Alabama and the Girl Vols didn’t meet up through the common season. 

Alabama is the one program within the nation to make it to the Tremendous Regional spherical in yearly of its existence. That is the seventeenth straight season that Alabama is a nationwide seed since seeding was formatted this manner in 2005. 

The Crimson Tide was a prime three group for a lot of the season, however the group struggled down the stretch, shedding 5 of their final eight video games together with the SEC Match opener in opposition to Missouri. Nonetheless, the Crimson Tide’s RPI, energy of schedule and high quality wins had been sufficient to maintain the group as a top-eight seed. 

Alabama is attempting to make it again to the Ladies’s School World Sequence for the 14th time general and third season in a row. (There was not a WCWS in 2020 on account of COVID.)

The primary recreation of the Tuscaloosa regional will happen Friday at 3 p.m. at Rhoads Stadium between the No. 6 Crimson Tide and Chattanooga. The sport will likely be broadcast on SEC Community.

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