{"id":297282,"date":"2026-05-17T18:19:21","date_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297282\/"},"modified":"2026-05-17T18:19:21","modified_gmt":"2026-05-17T18:19:21","slug":"softball-bracket-predictions-full-picks-for-2026-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/297282\/","title":{"rendered":"Softball bracket predictions: Full picks for 2026 NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/sports\/college\/longhorns\/softball\/article\/austin-regional-teams-ncaa-tournament-22252650.php\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">NCAA Tournament<\/a> begins today for softball and the brackets will soon have to be submitted.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So who will make it to Oklahoma City for the the Women&#8217;s College World Series in June?<\/p>\n<p>Will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/hookem\/softball\/\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Texas softball<\/a> repeat as national champions? What about a talented Texas Tech team led by NaJaree Canaday? Or Oklahoma, which has been one of the best squads in the country all the season. Then there are Texas A&amp;M, Florida and any other number of high-powered SEC teams alongside strong Big Ten, Big 12 and midmajor programs.<\/p>\n<p>Here are the predictions from members of the American-Statesman sports staff:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Statesman&#8217;s columnist has Texas headed to OKC alongside three other SEC teams.<\/p>\n<p>Collins Rath, the Statesman&#8217;s sports reporter who&#8217;s covered Texas and Texas A&amp;M softball thinks six SEC teams will make the Women&#8217;s College World Series.<\/p>\n<p>Our Texas State reporter, Yum thinks five SEC teams will make it to Oklahoma City.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The NCAA Tournament begins today for softball and the brackets will soon have to be submitted.\u00a0 So who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,66700,105358,3112],"class_list":["post-297282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-ncaa-softball","tag-ncaa-softball-tournament","tag-ncaa-tournament"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297282","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=297282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}