The four remaining teams — OU, UCLA, Washington and Alabama — are all WCWS veterans. Between them, they have made 79 World Series appearances, played in 32 championship games and won it all 18 times.
The Sooners are the more recent of this year’s Final Four to have won a softball national championship, accomplishing the feat in back-to-back seasons in 2016 and ’17. UCLA, however, the No. 2 seed, leads all of college softball with a dozen WCWS titles to its credit.
Oklahoma, UCLA and the Huskies of Washington have followed form so far in the NCAA Softball Championship, coming in as the No.