Clemson 2025 NCAA softball tournament schedule, regional, opponents revealed
Clemson 2025 NCAA softball tournament schedule, regional, opponents revealed
Coach John Rittman and the Clemson Tigers learned their fate for the 2025 NCAA softball tournament on Sunday.
Despite rallying to beat Florida State for the ACC Championship on Saturday, the Tigers were lower on the seed line than the Seminoles and did not land a top eight national seed.
FSU was awarded the No. 5 overall seed, while Clemson was awarded the No. 11 seed. As such, the Tigers are likely to play on the road in the super regional, if they win their on-site host regional at McWhorter Stadium.
As for who Maddie Moore, Reese Basinger and the Tigers will welcome to the Clemson Regional, they drew the No. 2 seed Kentucky Wildcats, No. 3 seed Northwestern Wildcats and No. 4 seed USC Upstate. The on-site regionals are a double elimination format.
Clemson will face USC Upstate on Friday at 4:30 p.m. ET. The game will be televised on ACC Network. The Clemson Regional will run May 16-18.
As the No. 11 overall seed, Clemson will draw the winner of the Austin Regional featuring the No. 6 seed host Texas Longhorns. Texas' regional includes No. 4 seed Eastern Illinois, No. 3 seed UCF and No. 2 seed Michigan State.
Clemson enters the NCAA Tournament at 44-12 overall and went 19-5 in conference play. The Tigers rallied on three straight days at the ACC Championship in Brighton, Mass., to take down Virginia, Virginia Tech and Florida State for the first ACC title in program history.
Texas A&M (45-9) was awarded the No. 1 overall seed in the NCAA Tournament, followed by the four-time defending national champion Oklahoma Sooners (45-7) as the No. 2 overall seed. The Aggies and Sooners were crowned SEC co-champions after heavy rains forced the cancellation of their conference championship game.
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