ESPN is the home of the 2016 NCAA Division I Softball Championship presented by Capital One beginning with the Regional round (May 19-22), continuing with exclusive coverage of the Super Regionals (May 26-29) and the Women's College WORLD SERIES (June 2 - June 8) in Oklahoma City, Okla. The 2016 NCAA Softball Championship marks the 16th consecutive year ESPN has televised the entire Women's College WORLD SERIES and the 10th consecutive year it has televised every game of the Super Regionals.
For the second consecutive year, ESPN's NCAA Softball Championship Regional round coverage will total as many as 84 games from 12 campus sites across ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU, SEC Network, Longhorn Network, ESPN3 and
SEC Network +, the most sites and games
ESPN has ever covered in the tournament's first weekend.
The Florida Gators are the No. 1
SEED coming off their back-to-back National Championships and will host the
GAINESVILLE Regional. Overall, ESPN's regional round coverage will feature eight of the top 10 seeds including No. 3 Oklahoma (Norman Regional), No. 4 Auburn (Auburn Regional), No. 5 Oregon (Eugene Regional), No. 6 Alabama (Tuscaloosa Regional), No. 8 Florida State (Tallahassee Regional), No. 9 Kentucky (Lexington Regional) and No. 10 LSU (Baton Rouge Regional). Additionally, No. 13 Tennessee (Knoxville Regional), No. 14 Louisiana-Lafayette (Lafayette Regional), No. 15 Missouri (Columbia Regional), and No. 16 Georgia (Athens Regional) will also be covered. All Regionals begin on Friday, May 20, except Columbia which begins Thursday, May 19.
Format:
ESPN will carry every game (maximum of seven games) from the 12 regionals. Each regional is a four-team, double-elimination tournament, concluding with one team advancing to the Super Regionals. A full schedule is provided below.
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