{"id":787721,"date":"2026-05-11T01:23:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787721\/"},"modified":"2026-05-11T01:23:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-11T01:23:17","slug":"huskers-chosen-as-no-4-overall-seed-will-host-regional-in-2026-university-of-nebraska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/787721\/","title":{"rendered":"Huskers Chosen as No. 4 Overall Seed, Will Host Regional in 2026 – University of Nebraska"},"content":{"rendered":"

The No. 2 Nebraska softball team (46-6) was selected as the fourth overall seed for the 2026 NCAA Tournament and will host a regional at Bowlin Stadium in Lincoln, Neb. The Huskers would also host a super regional if they win the Lincoln Regional.<\/p>\n

NU will open tournament play against South Dakota at 5:30 p.m. (CT) on Friday, May 15. The game will be streamed on ESPN+.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Coyotes (20-34-1) are the champion out of the Summit League. They downed Omaha, 2-1, on Saturday en route to their first Summit League title.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Louisville and Grand Canyon will play at 3 p.m. (CT) on Friday, May 15, immediately before Nebraska\u2019s game against USD.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sunday’s selection marks Nebraska’s 28th NCAA Tournament appearance in program history and 24th in the last 31 years. This is also Nebraska’s 24th NCAA Tournament appearance under Head Coach Rhonda Revelle<\/a>. Revelle’s 24 NCAA Tournament appearances rank fifth among active coaches at their current school. The Huskers rank 14th all-time in NCAA Tournament appearances, 20th in wins (69) and 15th in Women\u2019s College World Series appearances (7).\u00a0<\/p>\n

This year marks the first time since 2013 and fifth time in venue history that Bowlin Stadium has hosted a regional.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the 2026 Lincoln Regional will go on sale to the public tomorrow, May 11, at 3 p.m. (CT) and will be available here<\/a>. There will be a tiered on-sale for Nebraska Athletics donors before the public on-sale.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The No. 2 Nebraska softball team (46-6) was selected as the fourth overall seed for the 2026 NCAA…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":787722,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[51,50,52],"class_list":{"0":"post-787721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116553333007388279","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=787721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/787721\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/787722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=787721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=787721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=787721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}