D 3 softball

[Riley Zayas]

Your 22 at-large teams in the 2025 tournament:

Springfield sneaks in after being on the outside looking in for the last few days. George Fox fell out after this morning's loss to Lewis & Clark. 3 of the first 4 out were from Region 10 (GFU, Trinity, Hardin-Simmons).

1   Christopher Newport
2   Huntingdon
3   Redlands
4   Texas Lutheran
5   Salisbury
6   UW-Whitewater
7   Gettysburg
8   Baldwin Wallace
9   CWRU
10   Simpson
11   Ramapo
12   Randolph-Macon
13   Central
14   Eastern
15   Lewis & Clark
16   Williams
17   UW-Stevens Point
18   RPI
19   Emory
20   Wartburg
21   UW-Eau Claire
22   Springfield

[DagarmanSpartan]

Just found out that my beloved CWRU Spartans will be hosting a regional on campus.

Mather Park is one of the finest venues in D3 softball.

https://athletics.case.edu/facilities/mather-park/8

GO SPARTANS!!!

[DagarmanSpartan]

Just found out that my beloved CWRU Spartans will be hosting a regional on campus.

Mather Park is one of the finest venues in D3 softball.

https://athletics.case.edu/facilities/mather-park/8

GO SPARTANS!!!

[Gray Fox]

Just found out that my beloved CWRU Spartans will be hosting a regional on campus.

Mather Park is one of the finest venues in D3 softball.

https://athletics.case.edu/facilities/mather-park/8

GO SPARTANS!!!

You can say that again.

[justafan12]

TLU getting sent to Ithaca, NY for a regional.  I think that might be a travel record for D3 softball (1,763 miles)  in the regional / super regional format.  Linfield and PlU both traveled to Tyler for regionals in the just regional format days.

[Caz Bombers]

TLU getting sent to Ithaca, NY for a regional.  I think that might be a travel record for D3 softball (1,763 miles)  in the regional / super regional format.  Linfield and PlU both traveled to Tyler for regionals in the just regional format days.

not even the longest this year. Johnson & Wales (RI) is going to Linfield.

[justafan12]

TLU getting sent to Ithaca, NY for a regional.  I think that might be a travel record for D3 softball (1,763 miles)  in the regional / super regional format.  Linfield and PlU both traveled to Tyler for regionals in the just regional format days.

not even the longest this year. Johnson & Wales (RI) is going to Linfield.

Yep, I would think so.  I had no idea where Johnson & Wales was located.  Does the NCAA not follow the 600 mile rule any more.  Maybe I have just not followed softball like I use to.

[Pat Coleman]

TLU getting sent to Ithaca, NY for a regional.  I think that might be a travel record for D3 softball (1,763 miles)  in the regional / super regional format.  Linfield and PlU both traveled to Tyler for regionals in the just regional format days.

not even the longest this year. Johnson & Wales (RI) is going to Linfield.

Yep, I would think so.  I had no idea where Johnson & Wales was located.  Does the NCAA not follow the 600 mile rule any more.  Maybe I have just not followed softball like I use to.

The limit is 500 miles but if there aren't enough non-NWC schools within 500 miles of Linfield to fill a regional, then someone has to fly.

[scottiedawg]

and thank goodness they didn't just smash Linfield and Redlands into the same pod.

[DagarmanSpartan]

CWRU won game 1 in their regional.  Let's go!

[justafan12]

and thank goodness they didn't just smash Linfield and Redlands into the same pod.

Honest question, why would that be bad?

[hoopstermom]

Seriously, the ODAC has two of the final eight teams in the championship finals and they have to meet in the FIRST game of the series. Congrats to Virginia Wesleyan University and Randolph-Macon College for getting this far and representing your schools and the conference so well. Hopefully they both can win a game or more and maybe at least one can get to the final championship game.

[justafan12]

At one point NCAA did not re-seed teams once they reached the WS (yea I know).  I thought that changed several years ago but not real sure.  Is that the rule now?

[hoopstermom]

I do think I read somewhere that teams would be re-seeded for the final 8, and I would expect RMC to be the last team on that list.  However, Rowan and Trine are both ranked higher than VWU as of May 6th by the NFCA Coaches poll.  NPI rankings as of May 11th have VWU higher than Rowan and Trine.  I re-checked postings and confirmed that the NPI rankings were used to seed for finals as St. Mary's is also ranked lower than Redlands and Tx Lutheran in the coaches poll but higher in NPI rankings, thus the higher finals seed.

In the end, it really doesn't matter, just got to beat whomever shows up in the other dugout. I hope they are good games throughout and not a bunch of run rule games.

[justafan12]

In my history of D3 softball the NCAA ignores the NFCA poll.