The road to Oklahoma City and the NCAA Softball Championship officially begins this week, and the Aloha State will be well represented. Nine players from Hawaii high schools across eight

Boston University had the most awkward reaction to its opening NCAA softball tournament matchup against the Oklahoma Sooners.

The 64-team field for the NCAA softball tournament is set. Now it's time for predictions for who will reign as the WCWS champion. Here are our picks:

The Sooners were seeded second behind Texas A&M even though Oklahoma won the SEC regular season title. For the second straight year, Oklahoma is headed to the NCAA Tournament as the No. 2-overall seed. Last year, the Sooners dropped the regular season series to Texas before avenging that loss to win the Big 12 Tournament.

The NCAA Tournament brackets will be decided with Texas, Oklahoma and Texas A&M awaiting their postseason fates.

The three-time reigning Patriot League champions drew into the four-team regional hosted by the four-time defending national champions.

Texas A&M has earned the overall No. 1 seed in the NCAA Division I softball tournament. The Aggies beat out four-time defending national champion Oklahoma for the top spot and leading seven Southeastern Conference teams seeded in the top eight.

Tennessee softball players have had their eyes on a return to Oklahoma City since the season started. Not just figuratively, but in a literal sense, too. The whiteboard in their clubhouse has a path drawn from a cutout of the state of Tennessee to the site of the Women's College World Series,