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USA Softball won gold in the World Games over the weekend. 

Janae Jefferson was sizzling - led Team USA with a .615 average, chipping in 4 RBIs, including the game-tying RBI in the bottom of the 8th against Japan in the semifinals. 

Her entire box score from the tournament:

1-3, 2 RBI against Chinese Taipei (4-0)
2-3, RBI against The Netherlands (8-1)
0-1 against China (8-1)
4-5, RBI against Japan (7-6, 10)
1-1 against Chinese Taipei (5-0)

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https://www.on3.com/softball/news/softball-to-seed-32-teams-for-2026-ncaa-tournament/

NCAA will seed the top 32 teams next year, as opposed to just the top 16

After multiple years of discussion, NCAA softball will follow the footsteps of Women’s Volleyball & Women’s Soccer, seeding 32 teams. This does not change the 16 national seeds, but should help reward the top seeds with ‘easier’ matchups.

The seeding will not be a straight 1-32 matchup to allow the NCAA to protect the 400-mile geographic proximity parameters when possible and prevent conference matchups in regionals. The seeding will use ‘buckets’. The 1-4 national seeds will face the 29-32 seeds in a certain order that allows the committee to still use the past parameters. If there are three SEC teams in the top four, and one SEC team in the 29-32 bucket, the SEC team will face the non-SEC host essentially.

The Buckets

National Seeds 1,2,3,4 – 29, 30, 31, 32
National Seeds 5, 6, 7, 8 – 25, 26, 27, 28
National Seeds 9, 10, 11, 12 – 21, 22, 23, 24
National Seeds 13, 14, 15, 16 – 17, 18, 19, 20

 

If done last year, Texas would have had a #2 seed like Virginia (#27) in their regional, instead of #31 (UCF).  #1 aggy would have had #32 Arizona State, instead of #26 Liberty

Not huge differences, tbh

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