The college softball version of basketball’s Sweet 16 is called Super Regionals, and the Sooners are making their 11th appearance in the round of 16 since the current format was introduced in 2005.
The No. 10-seeded Sooners are matched up with No. 7 Auburn, the same team Oklahoma defeated to earn its third national championship in last season’s Women’s College World Series. The Sooners and Tigers will play a best-of-three series beginning Friday afternoon on Auburn’s Jane B. Moore Field.
Patty Gasso’s squad is 4-2 all-time against Auburn, but the Sooners and Tigers have never played at Auburn, where the home team is 31-4 this season.