College Softball Conference Tournaments: 50 Games, 11 Championships

• Television: ACC and American Athletic Conference Championship Games and entire SEC Tournament
• ESPN3: Atlantic Sun, Big South, Horizon League, Missouri Valley, Southland, Southern, Sun Belt, SWAC Championship Games
• Big 12 and Pac-12 Key Matchups
• NCAA Softball Championship Selection Show on ESPNU

With the 2015 NCAA Division I Softball Championship approaching, ESPN will provide coverage of 11 college softball conference championship games (Saturday, May 9 & Sunday, May 10) and more than 50 conference tournament games (Wednesday, May 6 through Friday, May, 8) leading into the NCAA Softball Championship Selection Show Presented by Capital One (May 10 at 10 p.m. E.T. on ESPNU) when the NCAA Division I Softball Championship bracket is unveiled.

The ACC Championship Game (ESPN) and American Athletic Conference Championship Game (ESPN2) will be televised Saturday, May 9, at 1 p.m. followed by the SEC Championship Game (ESPN) at 8 p.m.  Prior to Saturday’s tripleheader, ESPNU will televise the SEC Tournament semifinals on Friday, May 8, at 3 p.m. and 5:30 p.m. The SEC Tournament first round (noon, 2:30 p.m., 5 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.) and quarterfinals (11 a.m., 1:30 p.m., 4 p.m., and 6 p.m.) will be televised Wednesday, May 6, and Thursday, May 7, respectively, on SEC Network.

ESPN3 will carry the Southland Conference Championship Game on Friday, May 8 at 3 p.m., the first of seven conference championship games on the network. On Saturday, May 9, the Horizon League (noon), Atlantic Sun and Southern Conference (1 p.m.), Sun Belt, Missouri Valley, and SWAC (2 p.m.) conference championship games will be played. The Big South Championship Game will be carried Sunday, May 10 at 2 p.m. The Southland Conference (5:30 p.m. on Friday), along with Saturday’s Horizon League (2:30 p.m.) and Atlantic Sun (3:30 p.m.) if necessary championship games will also be carried.  In addition to being on ESPN3, the SWAC Championship Game will air on Sunday, May 10, at 11 a.m. on ESPNU.

ESPN will also televise key matchups from the Big 12 and Pac-12 as the two conferences close out the regular season: Texas at No. 14 Baylor at 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 6, on ESPN2 and Oklahoma State at No. 4 Oklahoma (3 p.m. on ESPN2) and No. 1 Oregon at No. 18 Arizona (11:30 p.m. on ESPNU) both on Saturday, May 9.

NCAA Softball Championship Selection Show Presented by Capital One
Host Beth Mowins and analysts Michele Smith and Jessica Mendoza will unveil the 64-team NCAA Division I Softball Championship bracket throughout the NCAA Softball Championship Selection Show on Sunday, May 10, at 10 p.m. Smith and Mendoza will analyze the field, preview each region and determine teams likely to advance throughout the one-hour special. Head coaches from teams named to the field are expected to join the show.

NCAA Division I Softball Championship
ESPN’s coverage of NCAA Division I Softball Championship coverage begins Friday, May 15, with the Regional Round.  Every game from the Super Regionals and the Women’s College World Series will be televised once again this season. Complete programming details will be released next week.

ESPN College Softball Television Schedule (May 6 – May 10)
(subject to change)

***Taped Delayed (Live on ESPN3, Saturday, May 9 at 2 p.m.)

ESPN3 College Softball Schedule (May 6 – May 10)
(subject to change)

*If necessary
**Subject to blackout

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Media contact: Derek Volner at 860-384-9986; Derek.Volner@ESPN.com and @DerekVolner