NCAA softball top 25 rankings entering SEC, ACC, Big Ten tournaments
Is there another new team at No. 1 in Softball America's top 25 rankings entering conference championship week in the SEC? Check out the full top 25.
Conference tournament week in the 2026 NCAA softball season is officially here. The regular season ended over the weekend with two Power 4 conference races coming down to the final day. The SEC race was decided on Saturday when the Oklahoma Sooners edged the Alabama Crimson Tide atop the standings.
Oklahoma swept a doubleheader at Texas A&M to earn its second straight outright regular-season title since the Sooners joined the SEC. Alabama earned its fourth SEC series sweep this season by defeating South Carolina in three hard-fought games at Rhoads Stadium. The Crimson Tide will head to the SEC Tournament in Lexington, Kentucky, as the No.
2 seed. The Florida Gators and Texas Longhorns also earned top-4 seeds and double byes at the SEC's tournament. The ACC race came down to the final weekend, as well.
The Florida State Seminoles clinched the regular-season title by wrapping up a sweep of Boston College on Sunday. Florida State has nine straight wins in conference play and finished one game ahead of the Duke Blue Devils in the ACC standings. In the Big Ten, the Nebraska Cornhuskers continued to steamroll anyone in their path after a three-game sweep at Penn State on Sunday.
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