Champions Florida (1st title) MOP Hannah Rogers Florida Dates 15 May 2014 – 5 Jun 2014 | Winning coach Tim Walton (1st title) Champion Florida Gators football Teams 64 | |
Finals Site ASA Hall of Fame Stadium
Oklahoma City Runner-Up Alabama(9th WCWS Appearance) Similar 2006 NCAA Division I, 2007 NCAA Division I, 2014 NCAA Division I, 2014 NCAA Division I, 2014 BCS National Champio | ||
The 2014 NCAA Division I Softball Tournament was held from May 15 through June 5, 2014 as the final part of the 2014 NCAA Division I softball season. The 64 NCAA Division I college softball teams were selected out of an eligible 293 teams on May 11, 2014. 32 teams were awarded an automatic bid as champions of their conference, and 32 teams were selected at-large by the NCAA Division I Softball Selection Committee. The tournament culminated with 8 teams playing in the 2014 Women's College World Series at ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.
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New to the tournament
This season the number of automatic bids increased from 31 to 32. The change occurred after the original Big East Conference split along football lines into a new non-football Big East Conference and the football-sponsoring American Athletic Conference. Also new this season was the WCC, which began sponsoring softball after the Pacific Tigers returned to the conference. The WCC replaced the Pacific Coast Softball Conference, which dissolved after all its members joined either the WCC or the WAC.
Automatic bids
The Big 12, Big West, Mountain West, Pac-12, and West Coast Conference bids went to the regular season champion. All other conferences had the automatic bid go to the conference tournament winner.
National seeds
Teams in "italics" advanced to Super Regionals. Teams in "bold" advanced to Women's College World Series.
- Oregon
- Alabama
- UCLA
- Georgia
- Florida
- UL Lafayette
- Oklahoma
- Florida State
- Arizona State
- Tennessee
- Arizona
- Washington
- Baylor
- Kentucky
- Missouri
- Minnesota
Regionals and Super Regionals
The Regionals took place May 15–18 with Seattle being May 15–17 and all other regionals May 16–18. The Super Regionals took place from May 22–25.
Women's College World Series
The Women's College World Series will be held May 29- June 4, 2014 in Oklahoma City.
Participants
Radio
Westwood One provided nationwide radio coverage of the championship series, which was streamed online at westwoodsports.com and through TuneIn. Kevin Kugler and Leah Amico provided the call for Westwood One.
Television
ESPN carried every game from the Women's College World Series across the ESPN Networks (ESPN, ESPN2 and ESPNU). The ESPN Networks also carried select regional matches and every super regional match utilizing ESPN, ESPN2, ESPNU and ESPN3. Outside of the ESPN Networks Regional matches, Pac-12 Network picked up all Oregon matches in the Eugene region and BTN picked up the Sunday championship games in the Minneapolis Region.