NCAA Tournament Bracket

ST. LOUIS – The Atlantic 10 Conference tournament champion Saint Louis Billikens (34-22) will make the program's first NCAA Tournament appearance Friday, May 16, against No. 4 national seed Arkansas (40-12) in the Fayetteville Regional. Game time at Bogle Park is 5:30 p.m.
 
The Saint Louis-Arkansas game will be streamed on ESPN+.
 
Oklahoma State (33-18) and Indiana (33-18) join the Billikens and Razorbacks in Fayetteville. The Cowgirls and Hoosiers square off Friday at 3 p.m. on ESPN2.
 
The regional continues Saturday and concludes Sunday.
 
SLU earned the A-10's automatic NCAA Tournament bid by winning its first A-10 Championship title. After slipping to the elimination round with a 6-5 loss to Fordham in their first game of the conference tournament, the Billikens registered four consecutive one-run victories – 3-2 over Saint Joseph's, 1-0 (10 innings) over Dayton, and final-round wins of 3-2 (eight innings) and 4-3 over Fordham. SLU finished second in the A-10 regular-season standings.
 
The Billikens are led by junior catcher Abby Mallo, the A-10 co-Player of the Year and A-10 Championship Most Outstanding Player. Mallo has school records of 19 home runs (one shy of the A-10 record) and 80 RBIs (tying the A-10 record).
 
Arkansas tied for fifth (14-10) in the powerful Southeastern Conference, which placed nine teams among the 16 national seeds. The Razorbacks reached the SEC Tournament semifinals, where they fell 8-6 to Oklahoma. Arkansas is led by senior first baseman Bri Ellis, the SEC Player of the Year.
 
Arkansas has won all eight previous meetings with Saint Louis; the teams last faced each other in 2018. The Billikens are 3-5 vs. Indiana (last meeting in 2015) and have never played Oklahoma State.
 
Oklahoma State finished fourth (13-9) in the Big 12 Conference regular-season race. The Cowgirls dropped a 2-1 decision to Arizona State in the Big 12 Championship opening round.
 
Indiana posted a 10-12 mark in the Big Ten Conference, tying for 10th place. The Hoosiers upset Washington 2-0 before falling 5-4 to UCLA in the Big Ten Tournament.
 
The NCAA Tournament is a 64-team event that begins with 16 four-team, double-elimination regionals. The 16 regional winners advance to one of eight super-regionals, also double-elimination, and the eight super-regional champions advance to the Women's College World Series in Oklahoma City, Okla.
 
Check back on SLUBillikens.com for more information regarding tickets and broadcast schedule for the Fayetteville Regional.