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Kentucky Softball Makes NCAA Tournament for 16th Straight Season

The Kentucky softball team was selected for the NCAA Tournament for the 16th consecutive season on Sunday.

The Wildcats are headed to the Clemson Regional as the No. 2 seed. They will battle No. 3 Northwestern on Friday at 2 p.m. ET.

Clemson will take on No. 4 USC upstate in the second game at 4:30 p.m. ET.

Kentucky is one of a record-breaking 14 teams from the SEC to make the NCAA Tournament field.

Here is a press release from UK Athletics:

LEXINGTON, Ky. – For the 16th-straight season under head coach Rachel Lawson, the Kentucky Softball team was selected to compete in the NCAA Championship, as the Wildcats were selected as an at-large team out of the Southeastern Conference and will begin the march to the Women’s College World Series on Friday.