I guess this is my third year of trying to put the softball schedule together before it’s released. There are 295 teams in Division 1 softball, and while I hit a good many of their websites, I generally skip over schools in the small school conferences such as the Northeast, MEAC, and Patriot League.
It gets a lot easier once I figure out the tournaments being played and can piece together the other schools in that tournament. Unfortunately, the difficult part remains figuring out midweek doubleheaders, for the most part. More on that after the schedule.
Numbers in parenthesis are the final RPI ranking from 2016.