NCAA.com | May 10, 2015 Regional matchups announced for DI softball championship Share INDIANAPOLIS -- Florida, the defending national champion, was named the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division I Softball Championship on Sunday when the NCAA Division I Softball Committee announced the 64-team field. The Gators will play Florida A&M, an automatic qualifier from the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference. Thirty-two conferences were awarded an automatic qualification, while the remaining 32 slots were filled with at-large selections to complete the bracket. The top 16 teams were seeded nationally and will play at campus sites this weekend. Printable Bracket Interactive Bracket Full Release Team pairings were determined by geographic proximity, with the exception that teams from the same conference were not paired during regional competition. The Southeastern Conference (SEC) led all leagues with 11 teams selected to the championship tournament. The Pac-12 Conference and Atlantic Coast Conference each placed seven teams in the championship tournament, respectively. Seven teams are making their first appearance in the tournament: Binghamton, Central Arkansas, Fairfield, Indiana State, Pittsburgh, St. John’s (N.Y.) and Weber State. Only 12 schools have been crowned the NCAA Division I softball champion since the tournament started in 1982, and 11 will compete in this year’s bracket. The championship will be three weekends of competition. Four teams will participate at each of 16 campus sites in a double-elimination tournament. The committee held selections for the 2015 NCAA Division I Softball Championship May 8-10. The 64-team field was selected from 295 NCAA Division I institutions sponsoring softball. Of the 64 teams, 32 teams received an automatic qualification with the remaining best 32 teams were selected on an at-large basis. Regionals for the NCAA Division I Softball Championship will be held May 14-17 on 16 campus sites. At each campus site, a four-team, double-elimination tournament will be conducted and the 16 winning teams advance to the Super Regionals. Super Regionals for the championship will be held May 21-24 on eight campus sites. At each site, two teams play in a best-of-three tournament format. The winners from each site advance to the NCAA women’s College World Series. Florida won its first national championship, defeating the University of Alabama 6-3. It was the first time that two SEC teams met in the championship series. 2015 NCAA Division I Softball Championship Automatic Qualifiers (32) Conference School 2015 Record Appearances Won Lost Last Appearance America East Binghamton 24-19 First American Athletic UCF 48-7 5 7 10 2014 Atlantic Coast Florida St. 45-12 27 58 60 2014 Atlantic Sun USC Upstate 43-8 2 2 4 2014 Atlantic 10 Fordham 36-18 4 4 8 2014 Big East St. John’s (NY) 28-17 First Big Sky Weber St. 38-17 First Big South Longwood 33-23 1 0 2 2013 Big Ten Michigan 51-6 22 80 49 2014 Big 12 Oklahoma 45-7 21 85 41 2014 Big West CSUN 41-15 13 17 28 2007 Colonial Hofstra 37-12-1 15 25 30 2014 Conference USA Western Ky. 34-12 1 2 2 2013 Horizon Oakland 27-22 2 2 4 2003 Ivy Dartmouth 25-16 1 0 2 2014 Metro Atlantic Fairfield 25-22 First Mid-American Ball St. 32-23 2 0 4 2010 Mid-Eastern Florida A&M 18-37 5 1 10 2014 Missouri Valley Indiana St. 26-29 First Mountain West Fresno St. 40-14 30 89 61 2011 Northeast Central Conn. St. 31-12 1 1 2 2013 Ohio Valley Tennessee Tech 32-26 4 2 8 2007 Pac-12 Oregon 46-6 16 49 34 2014 Patriot Lehigh 39-7 8 6 15 2012 Southeastern Auburn 48-9 10 10 20 2014 Southern Chattanooga 35-13 9 6 18 2014 Southland Central Ark. 35-19 First Southwestern Texas Southern 25-16 1 0 2 2014 Summit North Dakota St. 43-9 5 5 10 2014 Sun Belt South Ala. 38-11 3 7 6 2014 West Coast BYU 39-12 11 15 22 2014 Western Athletic New Mexico St. 46-14 1 1 2 2011 2015 NCAA Division I Softball Championship At-Large Selections (32) School Conference 2015 Record Appearances Won Lost Last Appearance Alabama Southeastern 42-12 16 75 35 2014 Arizona Pac-12 38-17 28 153 54 2014 Arizona St. Pac-12 34-20 26 85 51 2014 Baylor Big 12 38-14 9 35 21 2014 California Pac-12 38-16 29 97 65 2013 Florida Southeastern 50-6 15 59 32 2014 Florida Atlantic Conference USA 37-17-1 7 11 14 2006 Georgia Southeastern 40-14 13 50 27 2014 James Madison Colonial 47-8 3 2 6 2014 Kansas Big 12 38-13 11 14 22 2014 Kentucky Southeastern 29-24 6 17 15 2014 La.-Lafayette Sun Belt 39-9 24 65 50 2014 LSU Southeastern 44-11 16 49 33 2014 Louisville ACC 30-17 11 14 22 2014 Minnesota Big Ten 46-9 9 11 19 2014 Mississippi St. Southeastern 35-19 11 11 22 2014 Missouri Southeastern 39-14 18 46 41 2014 Nebraska Big Ten 34-21 22 59 58 2014 North Carolina ACC 36-14 11 13 22 2013 North Carolina St. ACC 35-20 4 6 8 2014 Northwestern Big Ten 28-21 14 41 32 2014 Notre Dame ACC 40-13 19 28 38 2014 Pittsburgh ACC 35-20 First San Diego St. Mountain West 36-18 10 14 20 2014 South Carolina Southeastern 37-20 17 34 37 2014 Tennessee Southeastern 42-14 12 59 28 2014 Texas Big 12 36-15 15 47 31 2014 Texas A&M Southeastern 38-18 25 71 54 2014 UCLA Pac-12 45-10 30 191 48 2014 Utah Pac-12 34-17 12 16 27 2006 Virginia Tech ACC 34-21 7 14 16 2014 Washington Pac-12 40-15 21 94 42 2014 Canada and Mexico softball play for bronze at the 2020 Olympics. 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