There is only one team and three games between the Arizona Wildcats and the third consecutive trip to the Women’s College World Series. The team is in Mississippi, but the question is where the game will take place after Bulldog eliminates second-seeded Florida and Wildcats does the same for 15th-seeded Missouri. bottom.
The NCAA Softball Selection Committee announced the response shortly after the game was over. Arizona will return to the SEC Country and Super Regional in Starkville, Mississippi.
Teams wishing to host will send bids before the regional round in case the seed is knocked out. There are reports that both Mississippi and Arizona have submitted bids.
Justin McLeod of Extra Innings Softball reported that host selection is based on both the bid and the team’s resume. Wildcats has both the impeccable history of hosting the NCAA postseason and the larger stadium, but Bulldog has never participated in the Super Regional, let alone the organizer. Bulldogs, on the other hand, win the comparison of selection criteria. Mississippi participated in the NCAA tournament with an RPI of 30. Arizona was sitting at 43.
Please answer from the NCAA on how the host team will be chosen for the unseeded and unseeded super match.
“In such situations, the Commission will meet and use the same criteria used for selection and seeding and will review the bids submitted by the school prior to the tournament.”
— Justin McLeod (@justfactsmaam) May 23, 2022
Arizona and Mississippi faced each other last in the 2018 Tucson Regional postseason. At that time, bulldog catcher Mia Davidson was a talented freshman. She is currently a SEC leader with 91 home runs. Wildcats have eliminated the MSU from the postseason with a 4-3 victory in the regional championships.
Wildcats and Bulldogs aren’t the only unseeded teams to face in Super Regional. The Pac-12 is guaranteed to have at least one team in the WCWS from other Super Regionals featuring two teams that had to go to the regional.
It was a bad weekend for the SEC team hosting the Pac-12 team. In addition to Arizona’s dismissal of Missouri, Stanford will host Oregon after the Cardinal eliminates the sixth-seeded Alabama and Beaver knocks out the eleventh-seeded Tennessee.
