It’s hard to wrap your head around the idiocy of the recent softball selection committee. The committee chaired by a farmer from North Dakota made glaring errors in its creation of this year’s college softball bracket. These are mistakes that will prevent one of the top teams in America from making the WCWS.
Granted we got the #1 seed in the tournament and we should be happy about that, but from there it went downhill in a hurry. The selection committee paired the fifth ranked Washington Huskies in the same super regional with the Sooners. Suspicious move to say the least.
The committee also selected twelve (12) of sixteen (16) SEC teams to play in the tournament with six (6) of the top nine (9) seeds going to SEC teams. We also have Oregon going to Texas, Clemson to Alabama and Michigan to Washington in the first round. Again, don’t bother trying to figure these moves out…there is no rhyme or reason.
In this day of conspiracy theories, this bracket certainly qualifies. After winning their regional this weekend the Sooners must get past Gabbie Plain and Washington to punch their ticket to OKC. Again, it’s a shame that both teams could not be in the WCWS.
For a preview of what to expect from Gabbie consider this. Gabbie Plain is a four-year starter for the Huskies who this year was .400 as a hitter and struck out over 300 batters as a pitcher. Over her four-year career, Plain struck out over 800 opposing hitters. Those are mind blowing statistics. That’s right, this girl is crazy good…
Making matters worse, the Huskies will come into Norman as angry as a hornet. Instead of the Sooners playing a Duke in the Super Regionals and cruising into the world series, the Sooners will now have to deal with a pack of rabid Huskies.
Hopefully, I’m overreacting, and everything will turn out okay for the Sooners, but seriously the NCAA selection committee had one thing to do and they couldn’t get that right. I am really worried about the NCAA…they can’t seem to get out of their own way these days…
Boomer Sooner…