{"id":312485,"date":"2026-05-28T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312485\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T15:08:08","slug":"womens-college-world-series-scores-live-updates-texas-tech-mississippi-state-opens-up-wcws-after-bulldogs-knock-ou-out-of-2026-ncaa-softball-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/312485\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s College World Series scores, live updates: Texas Tech-Mississippi State opens up WCWS after Bulldogs knock OU out of 2026 NCAA softball tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 What was he supposed to do?<\/p>\n<p>No, really, Texas Tech head coach Gerry Glasco wants to know. Because when he took over the fledgling softball program in 2024, he inherited a roster of three. A coach can\u2019t play a game, let alone build a program back, with that.<\/p>\n<p>Was he not supposed to use the tool waiting at his disposal, the one he could combine with one of his best coaching assets? Should he have sat back content with a runner-up finish after bulldozing 22 program records? Doesn\u2019t everyone say they want to be a national power?<\/p>\n<p>They do. And when they themselves can\u2019t be it, they find ways to hate the ones who can achieve it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf softball needs me to be the villain, I\u2019m all about it. Let\u2019s go,\u201d Glasco <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/college-sports\/article\/if-the-womens-college-world-series-needs-a-villain-texas-tech-and-nijaree-canady-are-willing-to-play-along-211111718.html\" data-i13n=\"cpos:1;pos:1\" data-ylk=\"slk:said on Wednesday;cpos:1;pos:1;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yPosition&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;said on Wednesday&quot;,&quot;yHasCommerce&quot;:false}\" target=\"_blank\">said on Wednesday<\/a> at Women\u2019s College World Series media day. \u201cI embrace that role, it\u2019s fun.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OKLAHOMA CITY \u2014 What was he supposed to do? No, really, Texas Tech head coach Gerry Glasco wants&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67002,3130,772,27,29,28,1769],"class_list":["post-312485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-college-world-series","tag-mississippi-state","tag-oklahoma-sooners","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-texas-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312485","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=312485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}