A team-by-team breakdown for each of the eight teams that will play in the Women's College World Series, starting Thursday at Devon Park in Oklahoma City.

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma could extend its record run of consecutive national titles to five at this year’s Women’s College World Series. Patty Gasso’s second-seeded Sooners will face No. 7 seed Tennessee in their WCWS opener. Oklahoma beat Alabama on Saturday to win the Norman Super Regional.

The Women's College World Series in recent years has become one of a number of boats raised by women's sports's rising tide. In 2024, to hear ESPN's public relations arm tell it, the event set a number of television records.