Nevada gets bid to NCAA Softball Championships
The Wolf Pack will travel to Los Angeles to play Purdue on Friday in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Softball Championship.
This is the first at-large bid for the Wolf Pack (42-16, 16-2 in WAC). Nevada won the WAC regular season crown, but lost the WAC tournament championship game to Louisiana Tech, 2-1.
Fresno State, Hawaii and Louisiana Tech all made the NCAA Softball Championship tournament for the WAC. This is the first season the WAC has sent four teams to the tournament.
The Wolf Pack will enter the tournament as a two seed. Purdue is a three seed.
Purdue (34-21) is playing in its first ever NCAA Softball Tournament.
Nevada will play the winner of Cal-State Fullerton and UCLA on Saturday if it beats the Boilermakers in the first round.
The top 16 teams in the nation received home games for the first two rounds of the 64 team tournament. UCLA was awarded the home series because it was No. 3 in the most recent USA Today top 25 poll. Nevada was No. 17 in the same poll.
The first-round game with Purdue will be televised Friday at 2:30 on ESPNU.
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