{"id":268972,"date":"2026-05-13T04:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268972\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T04:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T04:29:29","slug":"stetson-softball-opens-2026-ncaa-tournament-tallahassee-regional-vs-fsu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/268972\/","title":{"rendered":"Stetson softball opens 2026 NCAA Tournament Tallahassee Regional vs. FSU"},"content":{"rendered":"

On May 9, Stetson<\/a> guaranteed its first NCAA softball tournament appearance since 2014 by winning the ASUN championship<\/a>. On May 10, it learned its first-round opponent and destination.<\/p>\n

The Hatters are headed to Tallahassee, as announced during the NCAA’s selection show. They will compete in the same Regional as Florida State<\/a>, UCF<\/a> and Jacksonville State.<\/p>\n

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Stetson will face the Seminoles<\/a> in the first game of the double-elimination event at noon on May 15. The contest will air on ESPNU.<\/p>\n

As the second seed in the ASUN, the Hatters (36-20) blazed through the bracket in three games last week. They handled No. 7 North Florida 4-2 on May 7 before beating top-seeded Central Arkansas on back-to-back days \u2014 8-2 on May 8 and 4-0 on May 9. Their title was the sixth in program history.<\/p>\n

Stetson had finished the regular season two games in front of the Sugar Bears in the conference standings, but Central Arkansas secured the league’s top seed via its RPI ranking.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on The Daytona Beach News-Journal: Stetson softball NCAA Tournament opponent is FSU in 2026 bracket<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On May 9, Stetson guaranteed its first NCAA softball tournament appearance since 2014 by winning the ASUN championship.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268973,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[14884,86218,1320,142,89490,232,234,233,73102],"class_list":["post-268972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-asun","tag-central-arkansas","tag-florida-state","tag-ncaa","tag-stetson","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-the-hatters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}