Selection Sunday: Oklahoma Earns No. 2 Seed in NCAA Tournament

The path back to the Women’s College World Series is again familiar for Oklahoma.

Patty Gasso’s SEC Regular Season Champions and SEC Tournament Co-Champions earned the No. 2-overall seed from the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee on Sunday.

As a result, OU will host Omaha, California and Boston University in the Norman Regional at Love’s Field next weekend.

Oklahoma will open against Boston at 5 p.m. on Friday, and the contest will be broadcast on ESPNU.

“I’ll start by saying that we are not disappointed about not being the number one seed,” Gasso said after the bracket was revealed. “We feel fine where we're at and I think the selection committee did a great job. It's probably the most fair and evenly distributed regional in a long, long time — so we're excited with this young team — excited to get started.

“You could feel their excitement watching the show. Many of them have never seen it before. So, there's just some wonderful things ahead of us. I love the way we finished against Arkansas, so we do have momentum going forward. I think the thing we're most excited about is playing it at Love’s Field. I think that will really charge us with some great energy.”

The Terriers (39-17, 14-4), champions of the Patriot League, head to Norman for the second straight year.

Boston beat Army in the Patriot League Tournament to punch their ticket to the NCAA Tournament.

Omaha (39-11, 14-4) won the Summit League Tournament to take the conference’s automatic bid, and California (35-19, 11-13) nabbed an at-large bid in its first season in the ACC.

Should the Sooners avoid an upset, they’ll host a Super Regional at Love’s Field as well.

The Alabama Crimson Tide, who knocked off OU in Tuscaloosa, are the tournament’s 15-seed.

Virginia Tech, Belmont and Jackson State will all travel to take on Alabama in regional action, where the winner will take on the winner of the Norman Regional.

Oklahoma enters the NCAA Tournament at 47-7 overall.

The Sooners went 17-7 in SEC play, dropping series to Tennessee, Alabama and Florida while sweeping South Carolina, Arkansas and Mississippi State.

In the SEC Tournament, OU beat LSU 4-1 and erased a 6-1 deficit against Arkansas to win 8-6.

The championship game against Texas A&M was canceled on Saturday due to severe weather.

Last year, the Sooners won their fourth-straight national title as the 2-seed in the NCAA Tournament. Oklahoma beat top-seeded Texas in the Championship Series in Oklahoma City.

In total, the SEC took home nine of the tournament’s 16 national seeds.

Oklahoma went 14-6 against teams in the top 16.