2010 NCAA Softball Tournament Field: Alabama No. 1 Seed in Field of 64

The 64-team bracket for the 2010 NCAA Softball Tournament was released this morning. Unlike the NCAA Basketball Tournaments, the softball tournament possesses only 16 teams that are seeded.

The field is comprised 30 automatic qualifiers from the conference champions plus 34 at-large teams. The 16 seeds were ranked during the regular season and most will host opening games at their respective campuses.

The brackets were formulated by "geographic proximity" with common conference opponents were kept separated when possible.

Unsurprisingly, the SEC, Big XII and Pac-10 each have the most teams in the field with seven. This is the 28th edition of the softball tournament which has crowned only 10 champions in that span.

No. 1 - No. 4 Seeds

Tuscaloosa Regional - May 21-23 at Tuscaloosa, Alabama
No. 1 seed Alabama* (48-9) vs. Alcorn St. (24-24)
Lipscomb (48-11) vs. UAB (36-20)

Ann Arbor Regional - May 21-23 at Ann Arbor, Michigan
Notre Dame (45-10) vs. Illinois State (32-18)
Wright St. (30-28-1) vs. No. 2 seed Michigan* (46-6)

Seattle Regional - May 21-23 at Seattle, Washington
No. 3 seed Washington* (45-6) vs. North Dakota St. (33-23)
Nebraska (29-27) vs. North Carolina (40-18)

Gainesville Regional - May 21-23 at Gainesville, Florida
UCF (35-21) vs. FIU (36-19)
Bethune-Cookman (32-22) vs. No. 4 seed Florida* (43-8)

* - host team

No. 3 Washington is the defending NCAA Champion and No. 4 Florida is the 2009 National Runner-up

No. 5 - No. 8 Seeds

Los Angeles Regional - May 21-23 at Los Angeles, California
No. 5 seed UCLA* (40-11) vs. St. Mary's (CA) (30-21)
Fresno St. (39-19) vs. San Diego St. (33-14)

Athens Regional - May 21-23 at Athens, Georgia
Florida St. (43-16) vs. Radford (36-15)
Elon (38-19) vs. No. 6 Georgia* (43-11)

Austin Regional - May 20-22 at Austin, Texas
No. 7 seed Texas* (42-13) vs. Iona (28-24)
East Carolina (42-16) vs. BYU (43-11)

Atlanta Regional - May 21-23 at Atlanta, Georgia
Oregon (33-19) vs. Auburn (30-24)
Jacksonville St. (30-17) vs. No. 8 seed Georgia Tech* (49-9)

* - host team

UCLA is the all-time leader in championships with 10. UCLA last won in 2004

No. 9 - No. 12 Seeds

Columbia Regional - May 21-23 at Columbia, Missouri
No. 9 seed Missouri* (46-11) vs. Creighton (37-21)
DePaul (38-16) vs. Illinois (43-6)

Tucson Regional - May 21-23 at Tucson, Arizona
Oklahoma St. (43-14) vs. Hofstra (43-10)
Cornell (37-13) vs. No. 10 seed Arizona* (43-11)

Columbus Regional - May 21-23 at Columbus, Ohio
No. 11 seed California (41-17) vs. Bucknell (28-18-1)
Kentucky (31-25) vs. Ohio St.* (37-12)

Baton Rouge Regional - May 21-23 at Baton Rouge, Louisiana
Texas A&M (42-14) vs. La.-Lafayette (42-16)
McNeese St. (38-25) vs. No. 12 seed LSU* (44-14)

Arizona won the national championship in 2006 and 2007

* - host team

No. 13 - No. 16 Seeds

Amherst Regional - May 21-23 at Amherst, Massachusetts
No. 13 seed Arizona St. (41-15) vs. Boston U. (34-20)
Long Island (37-16) vs. Massachusetts* (42-8-1)

College Park Regional - May 21-23 at College Park, Maryland
Fordham (47-10) vs. Maryland* (33-22)
Syracuse (32-24) vs. No. 14 seed Oklahoma (43-10)

Knoxville Regional - May 21-23 at Knoxville, Tennessee
No. 15 seed Tennessee* (42-13) vs. Ball St. (43-14)
Virginia (33-21) vs. Louisville (39-17)

Stanford Regional - May 21-23 at Stanford, California
Stanford* (36-17) vs. Texas Tech (36-16)
UC Davis (26-27) vs. No. 16 seed Hawaii (44-13)

Arizona State won the national championship in 2008. Oklahoma won the national championship in 2000.

* - host team

Women's College World Series TV Coverage

The Women's College World Series occurs when the tournament field is trimmed down to 16 teams.

Thursday 6/3 1 Noon ESPN
Thursday 6/3 2 2:30 p.m. ESPN
Thursday 6/3 3 6 p.m. ESPN2
Thursday 6/3 4 8:30 p.m. ESPN2
Friday 6/4 5 6 p.m. ESPN
Friday 6/4 6 8:30 p.m. ESPN
Saturday 6/5 7 11 a.m. ESPN2
Saturday 6/5 8 1:30 p.m. ESPN2
Saturday 6/5 9 6 p.m. ESPN
Saturday 6/5 10 8:30 p.m. ESPN
Sunday 6/6 11 Noon ESPN
Sunday 6/6 12 2:30 p.m.

ESPN
Sunday 6/6 13 (if needed)

6 p.m. ESPN2
Sunday 6/6 14 (if needed)

8:30 p.m. ESPN2
Monday 6/7 Championship Final Game 1

7 p.m. ESPN2
Tuesday 6/8 Championship Final Game 2

7 p.m. ESPN2
Wednesday 6/9 Championship Final Game 3 (if necessary)

7 p.m. ESPN2