May 10, 2009
Full 2009 NCAA Tournament Bracket 
COLLEGE STATION, Texas - The Texas A&M softball team was selected to the 2009 NCAA Division I Softball Championship for the 20th season, the selection committee announced Sunday.
The Aggies (31-20) travel to Gainesville, Fla., this weekend and will take on Lehigh (36-16-1) on Friday at 2:30 p.m. No. 1 seed and host Florida (55-3) faces Florida A&M (30-30) at 5 p.m.
"This regional is a really good challenge for our program," said head coach Jo Evans. "We've had great success against Florida the last two years, so we'll use that to our advantage in terms of our confidence and understanding the kind of pitching we're going to see. But first we have to get by Lehigh and they beat us twice in the regional in 2006. We have a lot of respect for their program. They are very well coached and we're going to have to play very well to beat them."
In addition to making its 20th appearance in the NCAA Tournament, Texas A&M earned its eighth consecutive trip with Evans at the helm.
The Aggies received an at-large bid, while every other team at the Gainesville Regional is an automatic qualifier - Lehigh from the Patriot League, Florida A&M from the Mid-Eastern Conference and Florida from the Southeastern Conference.
The Big 12 placed seven teams in the tournament. Missouri, Oklahoma, Baylor, Texas, Nebraska, Oklahoma State and Texas A&M all received bids with Oklahoma obtaining a No. 7 seed.
The Division I championship provides for a field of 64 teams. The championship will be three weekends of competition. Four teams will participate at each of 16 regional sites in a double-elimination tournament.
The regional winners will advance to super regional competition for a best-of-three series May 21-24 at eight campus sites.
The remaining eight teams will advance to the WCWS, an eight-team, double-elimination tournament. The championship final will be a best-of-three-series. The WCWS will be conducted May 28 to June 3 at the ASA Hall of Fame Stadium in Oklahoma City.