Dale Zanine-Imagn Images
Audio By Carbonatix
Boston University was one of the 64 softball teams that earned an invite to the tournament that determines which eight squads will play in the Women’s College World Series. On Sunday, they learned they’ll be facing off against Oklahoma in the first round, and it’s safe to say the Terriers aren’t too thrilled about that matchup.
UCLA firmly leads the list of softball teams with the most Women’s College World Series championships with 13, but one program has emerged as the one to beat over the course of the past decade: Oklahoma.
The Sooners have won six of the past eight WCWS titles and headed into the 2025 season as back-to-back-to-back-to-back champions ahead of their first campaign as a member of the SEC. Last week, they secured the conference’s automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament in fairly controversial fashion due to weather issues that prevented Texas A&M from getting the chance to beat them in the SEC championship game.
Neither team had to worry about getting a nod when you consider they’re respectively ranked #2 and #1 in the country, and there’s a very good chance they end up meeting when the WCWS kicks off at the end of the month.
On Sunday, the NCAA revealed the first-round matchups for the tournament that’s used to narrow down the octet of squads that will make the trek to Oklahoma City to play for the title on softball’s biggest stage, and it was hard to rival the schools that ended up learning they’d have to face off against one of those juggernauts.
St. Francis was tapped to play Texas A&M, while Boston University (which got the Patriot League’s automatic bid for the third straight year with a win over Army) ended up pitted against Oklahoma—a game more than a few members of the Terriers are not looking forward to based on how they responded to that development.
Safe to say Boston U wants NO part of Oklahoma softball 😂😂😂 pic.twitter.com/FLUgl4uwPq
— InAllKindsOfWeather.com (@AllKindsWeather) May 11, 2025
Some athletes hailing from Boston University previously helped orchestrate one of the most unlikely upsets in the history of sports, as four Terriers were skating for Team USA when it toppled the Soviet Union to pull off the “Miracle on Ice” in 1980.
With that said, BU is definitely going to face an uphill battle in the Norman regional on Thursday.