{"id":287285,"date":"2026-05-10T23:22:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287285\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T23:22:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T23:22:21","slug":"texas-draws-no-2-overall-seed-will-open-v-wagner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/287285\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas draws No. 2 overall seed, will open v Wagner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/softball\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Texas softball<\/a> will enter next weekend\u2019s\u00a0NCAA Tournament as the No. 2 overall seed, which means the Longhorns won\u2019t have to leave Austin until a possible third consecutive trip to the Women\u2019s College World Series, which begins May 28 in Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n<p>Texas won its first national title last season by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/story\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/softball\/2025\/06\/07\/texas-softball-longhorns-blast-texas-tech-win-first-national-championship\/84084398007\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beating Texas Tech<\/a> in the championship series.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 10 Longhorns (42-10), which won the SEC Tournament championship Saturday by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/softball\/article\/texas-longhorns-softball-score-today-alabama-22240057.php\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">beating Alabama 7-1<\/a>, will host Wagner, Baylor and Wisconsin in the Austin Regional this weekend at McCombs Field. If Texas advances as expected from the double-elimination regional round, the Longhorns will serve as hosts of an Austin Super Regional series the weekend of May 21-24.<\/p>\n<p>Texas, the No. 2 overall seed, will open the tournament Friday at 3 p.m. against Wagner, which is making its NCAA Tournament debut.<\/p>\n<p>Alabama, which finished the regular season ranked No. 4 in the National Fastpitch Coaches Association poll, is the No. 1 overall seed despite Saturday&#8217;s loss to Texas.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Texas softball will enter next weekend\u2019s\u00a0NCAA Tournament as the No. 2 overall seed, which means the Longhorns won\u2019t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":287286,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[46014,66700,105358,27,29,537,28703,28],"class_list":["post-287285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-softball","tag-ncaa-softball","tag-ncaa-softball-tournament","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-longhorns","tag-texas-longhorns-softball","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287285","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=287285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/287285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/287286"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=287285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=287285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=287285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}