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Blockbuster matchups headline the last weekend of NCAA softball’s regular season

May 3, 2024
It’s the last weekend of the regular season, and the season titles are still up for grabs in three stacked Power Five conferences.
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Blockbuster matchups headline the last weekend of NCAA softball’s regular seasonBlockbuster matchups headline the last weekend of NCAA softball’s regular season
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The GIST: It’s the last weekend of the regular season, and the season titles are still up for grabs in three stacked Power Five conferences — each with three Top-10 teams. Here’s who could slide home with the hardware.

Big 12: The regular-season title rests on the aforementioned Bedlam series. Oklahoma State sits two games back from the Sooners and could capture the crown with a road sweep…though that seems like a long shot, since they haven’t won a game on Oklahoma’s diamond in this century.

  • But with even one win over the Sooners, the Cowgirls would create space for No. 1 Texas to snag a share of the crown — as long as the Longhorns can hold it down against Texas Tech this weekend. Living for the drama.

Pac-12: At 14-4 in conference play, No. 6 UCLA holds a tenuous lead in the Pac-12’s final season, and they should clinch their 18th title with two weekend wins over Arizona State. But if the Bruins bumble it, No. 7 Stanford is lurking just behind at 15-6. A strong homestand against No. 21 Oregon, plus a UCLA choke, would push the Cardinal to a huge come-from-behind conference win.

SEC: Like UCLA, No. 3 Tennessee has the country’s fiercest conference locked up…if they can keep their sh!t together against No. 24 Kentucky this weekend. No. 8 Texas A&M and No. 9 Florida sit one and two games back, respectively — but since they play each other in the season finale, it’ll take some serious grit and a lot of luck for either one to catch the Vols.

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