1982 NCAA Division I softball tournament information
American college softball tournament
Collegiate softball tournament
1982 NCAA Division I softball tournament
Teams
8
Finals site
Seymour Smith Park
Omaha, NE
Champions
UCLA(1st NCAA (2nd overall) WCWS title)
Runner-up
Fresno State (1st WCWS Appearance)
Winning coach
Sharron Backus(1st NCAA (2nd overall) WCWS title)
NCAA Division I softball tournament
1983 →
The finals of the 1982 NCAA Division I softball tournament were held from May 27 through May 30.[1] 16 Division I college softball teams met in the NCAA tournament's first round at campus sites. After having played their way through the regular season and first round (and for Oklahoma State, a conference tournament, an AIAW regional title and double losses to Texas A&M in the AIAW Women's College World Series final on May 25), the eight advancing teams played in the NCAA Women's College World Series in Omaha, Nebraska. UCLA won the title. Historian Bill Plummer III wrote, "With their 77-8 season record, Texas A&M could have been a contender in Omaha − maybe even the top seed − against perennial softball powers like UCLA and Fresno State. The Aggies had been invited to the NCAA's first national tournament, but chose not to go. A&M coach Bob Brock had high respect for the eleven-year-old AIAW, even as the NCAA began to overshadow it. Out of a sense of loyalty to the AIAW, Brock said, his school chose the 1982 Norman championship over the NCAA's first in Omaha."[2]: 63
^"NCAA Championship Archives, 1982 Softball Women's Division I". Archived from the original on May 27, 2014. Retrieved May 26, 2014.
^Plummer III, William; Floyd, Larry C. (2013). A Series Of Their Own: History Of The Women's College World Series. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, United States: Turnkey Communications Inc. ISBN 978-0-9893007-0-4.
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