{"id":33778,"date":"2016-05-16T17:46:22","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T22:46:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=33778"},"modified":"2016-05-16T17:46:22","modified_gmt":"2016-05-16T22:46:22","slug":"ole-miss-softball-headed-to-first-ever-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/ole-miss-softball-headed-to-first-ever-ncaa-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Ole Miss Softball Headed to First Ever NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Capping of an already historic year for the <strong>Ole Miss Softball<\/strong> team, the <strong>Rebels<\/strong> are headed to the <strong>NCAA Tournament<\/strong> for the first time in program history, which was announced Sunday evening in the bracket reveal of the <strong>Division I Tournament<\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The Rebels drew a spot in the <strong>Norman Regional<\/strong>, hosted by the #3 national seed <strong>University of Oklahoma Sooners<\/strong>, which includes <strong>Wichita State<\/strong> and <strong>Tulsa<\/strong> as the other teams which will compete for a spot in the Super Regional.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">Ole Miss, the regional\u2019s #2 seed, will face off first against Tulsa (35-19) at 5:30 on Friday, May 20, with the game being aired on ESPN3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">The winner of the Norman Regional will advance to the <strong>Super Regional<\/strong>, set for May 26-29, to play the winner of the <strong>Louisiana-Lafayette Regional<\/strong>, which includes the hosting <strong>Rajin\u2019 Cajuns<\/strong>, <strong>Texas A&amp;M<\/strong>,<strong> Texas<\/strong>, and <strong>Boston.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Capping of an already historic year for the Ole Miss Softball team, the Rebels are headed to the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":33779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[5714,8570,2013,6299,8573,8571,8572],"class_list":["post-33778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-athletics","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-norman-regional","tag-ole-miss-rebels","tag-ole-miss-softball","tag-tulsa","tag-university-of-oklahoma-sooners","tag-wichita-state"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/11698111.jpeg?fit=650%2C267&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}