The Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ softball team (39-17) learned late Sunday night that it earned an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament, where it will take on South Florida (45-11) at 3:30 p.m. in the opening round of the Gainesville Regional Friday hosted by No. 5 overall seed Florida.<\/p>\n
“We could not be happier to have earned an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament,” head coach Renee Luers-Gillispie said. “We felt like our r\u00e9sum\u00e9 was strong and it is so great to see C-USA being recognized as a strong Division I conference by having four teams make the tournament.”<\/p>\n
The host Gators (46-11) and Florida Gulf Coast (37-22) will also participate in the four-team regional which follows a double-elimination format. Florida and FGCU will square off at 6 p.m. on Friday.<\/p>\n
The at-large selection to the tournament is the second for the Black and Gold in its 11-year history, while it will be the fourth time in four total appearances in the NCAA Tournament that the Knights will be playing at Katie Seashole Pressly Softball Stadium.<\/p>\n
The last time Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ made an appearance was in 2010, when it earned the first at-large selection in school history. The Knights went 1-2 during the 2010 regional, defeating FIU in the opening game before losing to Florida and FIU on day two.<\/p>\n
Overall when participating in the NCAA Tournament, the Black and Gold holds a 5-6 record and has faced Florida five times during the stretch.<\/p>\n
Of the 64 teams that made the NCAA Tournament in 2012, the Knights faced 12 teams throughout the season, including No. 5 seed Florida, No. 12 seed UCLA, No. 16 seed Washington, Iona, Bethune-Cookman, Florida Gulf Coast, Florida State, San Diego State, Oregon State and C-USA foes Tulsa, Houston and UAB. When facing off with those teams, Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ posted 10 wins.<\/p>\n
The regional winners will advance to super regional competition for a best-of-three series May 24-27 at eight campus sites.<\/p>\n
Ticket information for the Gainesville Regional will be announced when they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Â鶹ӳ»´«Ã½ softball team (39-17) learned late Sunday night that it earned an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament, where it will take on South Florida (45-11) at 3:30 p.m. in the opening round of the Gainesville Regional Friday hosted by No. 5 overall seed Florida. “We could not be happier to have earned an at-large bid into the NCAA…","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":36592,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"template-twocol.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lazy_load_responsive_images_disabled":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[3346,3946,4337,202],"tu_author":[],"class_list":["post-36571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ncaa","tag-renee-luers-gillispie","tag-softball","tag-alumni"],"yoast_head":"\n