A few weeks before the regular season ended, the UCLA softball team, which had hung onto the no. 1 spot in the rankings for a few weeks, suddenly found themselves second to Oklahoma.
Though minuscule the Bruins slipped even further as the regular season was drawing to a close when Washington overtook them in second, bumping them down to third. An unusual move by the voters to overlook UCLA, who had only lost two games up until that point.
Still, it was not the ranking that mattered, it is what they do on the field that counts, and the Bruins did more than prove that are the top team in the nation on Monday evening when they whipped Oklahoma, 16-3.