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OU Softball: Bracket Officially Set for Oklahoma's First SEC Tournament

As the top-overall seed, the Sooners earned a pair of byes for next week's SEC Tournament.

Ryan Chapman

Oklahoma infielder Nelly McEnroe-Marinas
Oklahoma infielder Nelly McEnroe-Marinas / NATHAN J. FISH/THE OKLAHOMAN / USA TODAY NETWORK via Imagn Images

Oklahoma’s path through its first SEC Tournament has officially been set. 

Despite dropping two of three games against No. 9 Florida in the final series of the regular season, Patty Gasso’s No. 1-ranked Sooners locked up the regular season title and top seed in the tournament with some help from No. 5 Tennessee.

OU finished the regular season 43-7 overall and 17-7 in conference play, and will now wait until Thursday with a pair of byes while the rest of the bracket works itself out. 

2025 SEC Softball Tournament Bracket
2025 SEC Softball Tournament Bracket / SECsports.com

If the weekend at Georgia’s Jack Turner Softball Stadium goes chalk, the Sooners would match up with the Volunteers in the semifinals on Friday. 

Tennessee took two of three off OU at Love’s Field in Norman earlier this year. 

Oklahoma will play the winner of Wednesday’s matchup between 8-seeded Mississippi State and 9-seeded LSU. The 8/9 game is scheduled to start at 10 a.m. on Wednesday, and the Sooners will get their first SEC Tournament underway on Thursday at 10 a.m. in a game broadcast on SEC Network. 

Should OU emerge victorious, it will play on Friday at 3 p.m.

A loss would see the Sooners’ run in Athens, GA, come to an end. 

Like Oklahoma, Tennessee must wait to know who it will play. 

The tournament hosts will get things underway on Tuesday as Georgia, the 12-seed, will battle 13-seed Kentucky at 12 p.m.

That winner advances to take on 5-seed Arkansas on Wednesday at 1 p.m.

Either Georgia, Kentucky or Arkansas will take on Tennessee.

Texas A&M finished as the 2-seed and Mike White’s Texas Longhorns ended as the 3-seed, placing both powers from the Lone Star State on the opposite side of the bracket from Oklahoma. 

The tournament concludes Saturday at 4 p.m.

Both of Friday’s semifinal matchups are slated to be broadcast on ESPN2, while the title game will air on ESPN.

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Ryan Chapman
RYAN CHAPMAN

Ryan is managing editor at Sooners On SI and covers a number of sports in and around Norman and Oklahoma City. Working both as a journalist and a sports talk radio host, Ryan has covered the Oklahoma Sooners, the Oklahoma City Thunder, the United States Men’s National Soccer Team, the Oklahoma City Energy and more. Since 2019, Ryan has simultaneously pursued a career as both a writer and a sports talk radio host, working for the Flagship for Oklahoma sports, 107.7 The Franchise, as well as AllSooners.com. Ryan serves as a contributor to The Franchise’s website, TheFranchiseOK.com, which was recognized as having the “Best Website” in 2022 by the Oklahoma Association of Broadcasters. Ryan holds an associate’s degree in Journalism from Oklahoma City Community College in Oklahoma City, OK. 

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