Despite losing in the finals of the Rocky Mountain Athletic Conference playoffs to Colorado State Pueblo last Saturday, top-seeded Colorado Christian will host a four-team NCAA Division II regional starting Thursday in Denver. READ MORE
And after posting an 8-2 RMAC title win over nationally-ranked CCU in Lakewood, CSU Pueblo (40-16) earned the seventh seed in the NCAA South Central Regional, where the ThunderWolves play at West Texas A&M (47-7) in Canyon. READ MORE
For Colorado Christian (53-5), the Cougars will host a regional for the first time, but not at their home field. With fourth-seeded and two-time DII defending champion UT Tyler (42-12), fifth-seeded Oklahoma Christian (39-14), and eighth-seeded St. Mary’s of Texas (30-22) in the CCU region, the playoffs will be staged at the Assembly Athletic Complex at MSU Denver. BRACKET
Joining CSU Pueblo and second-seeded West Texas A&M, the regular-season Lone Star Conference champions, in the lower South Central Regional bracket are third-seeded Angelo State (46-12) and sixth-seeded Texas A&M-Kingsville (39-14). BRACKET
Colorado Christian is competing in its fifth-straight regional and seventh overall. With a 5-12 NCAA mark, the Cougars’ best finish in the regionals was in 2023, when CCU dropped the pod finale to West Texas A&M.
CSU Pueblo will be appearing in its third NCAA softball championships after earning an automatic bid in 2001 as the RMAC champions. The ThunderWolves were selected as an at-large team in 2009, where CSU Pueblo advanced to the regional final before losing to Colorado Mesa.
