UCLA softball vs Oregon live updates, score, highlights at Women's College World Series
UCLA softball vs Oregon live updates, score, highlights at Women's College World Series UCLA-Oregon opens Women's College World Series for Big Ten rivals from the West Coast
The UCLA Bruins and the Oregon Ducks are the only two Big Ten teams at the 2025 Women's College World Series. They are the only West Coast teams in Oklahoma City for the WCWS. The fact that these teams are meeting in the Women's College World Series is a product of their own shared resilience in the NCAA Tournament, battling back from losses to win elimination games and survive.
This meeting is also a product of a very big NCAA Tournament upset. As soon as Liberty defeated Texas A&M in the regionals, the No. 1 overall seed was removed from the bracket. Texas A&M was bracketed to face 16th-seeded Oregon, but Liberty's upset cleared a path for the Ducks, which they fully took advantage of.
UCLA and Oregon went at it all season long in a thrilling Big Ten softball race. Both teams set consistently high standards and very rarely stumbled over the course of the season. Now the Bruins and Ducks reunite on college softball's biggest stage. The difference between going into the winners' bracket and the losers' bracket is substantial. Losers' bracket teams have to win three straight elimination games just to get a chance to advance to the Women's College World Series championship round. A winners' bracket team will get a day off on Friday and will be playing on Monday as one of the last four teams left in the tournament. The pressure attached to the first game is therefore enormous. Let's see if UCLA, having made the WCWS for the ninth time in the past 10 seasons, can rise to the occasion and uphold its reputation as the greatest softball school of all time (with Oklahoma establishing itself as No. 2, ahead of Arizona).
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