{"id":286840,"date":"2026-05-10T13:13:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/286840\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T13:13:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T13:13:15","slug":"where-could-texas-state-softball-land","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/286840\/","title":{"rendered":"Where could Texas State softball land?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It wasn’t Texas State’s (38-20, 16-8 in conference) best regular season, as it finished third in the Sun Belt. But coach Ricci Woodard scheduled tough nonconference opponents and her belief paid off. Wins over\u00a0Texas A&M,<\/a> Texas Tech<\/a> and Clemson have bolstered Texas State’s r\u00e9sum\u00e9, which should be enough to earn them a spot in a regional.<\/p>\n

The 2026 NCAA DI softball selection show will begin at 6 p.m. CT. Here are the Bobcats’ odds to make the tournament.<\/p>\n

Texas State is ranked 31st in RPI, which is calculated using a team’s winning percentage, its opponent’s winning percentage and its opponent’s opponents’ winning percentage. Considering Texas State’s ranking and its second-place finish in the Sun Belt tournament, it’ll likely earn one of the 33 available at-large bids.<\/p>\n

So, where could the Bobcats end up? In 2023, Texas State (35-25-1) ended up in the Austin regional hosted by No. 13 Texas. As the third seed, Texas A&M eliminated them in the regional 4-2. The Bobcats (39-14) again landed the Austin regional in 2021, hosted by No. 12 Texas.<\/p>\n

The 2024 Bobcats (47-15) were second in the Sun Belt and won the conference tournament. They earned a trip to College Station as the second seed in the region. Although it defeated Penn State, Texas State fell to Texas A&M twice, failing to make the super regionals.<\/p>\n

Texas State has left the state twice for a regional, in 2016 and 2018, but it seems more likely it’ll stay in the Lone Star State. With the Aggies currently outside the top 16 of RPI rankings and the Longhorns fourth, a visit to Lubbock could be in the Bobcats’ future.<\/p>\n

The Red Raiders are 13th in RPI, putting them in position to be a potential regional host. Texas State defeated Texas Tech 3-0 in April, its highest-ranking win in program history. Considering the Bobcats’ history with the NCAA Tournament, they’re unlikely to be grouped with a top-eight seed. If it were to venture outside the state, Georgia, Duke, LSU, or Oregon could be regional hosts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It wasn’t Texas State’s (38-20, 16-8 in conference) best regular season, as it finished third in the Sun…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286841,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46014,1771,9330,66700,3112,27,29,28,9327,62149,1927],"class_list":["post-286840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-softball","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-division-i","tag-ncaa-softball","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-state-bobcats","tag-texas-state-bobcats-softball","tag-texas-state-university"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}