There are less than two months until the start of the new season and the Arizona softball team has already released the schedule for the new campaign. The Wildcats are going to take part in the 23rd Women’s College World Series and ninth national championship.
Arizona’s contests are very interesting to the audience, so 23 matches of the team are going to be televised. 20 of these games will be shown on the Pac-12 Networks. Moreover, ESPN2 is going to broadcast the first two matches of the Arizona’s home series – against UCLA on 23rd and 24th April 2016. Another match of the Arizona’s softball team will be shown on ESPN2. It will be The Wildcats visit to Oregon on 1st May 2016.
56 games are scheduled for the period between 11th February and 14th May 2016. The Wildcats start against Southern Utah (2 games). Then the Arizona’s softball players will have to meet North Texas, Nebraska-Omaha, Purdue, UC Santa Barbara and so on. The Wildcats will also go to Tuscaloosa for the first time since 2000 to take part in The Easton Bama Bash (26-28 February), where Arizona will play against the host Crimson Tide twice. The schedule is so busy, that The Wildcats will have to play two games in one day on 6 occasions in February.
The Arizona’s players continue with Friday – Sunday matches’ program in March. The Wildcats will play 10 games against the following opponents: Samford (11th and 13th March), Texas (12th March), Texas-Arlington (12th March), Arizona State (18th, 19th and 20th March) and Utah (24th, 25th and 26th March).
Then, the softball players of Arizona will have a week off. After that, The Wildcats will visit Seattle for a Saturday – Monday series with Washington (2-4 April). The Pac-12 Networks will broadcast these matches and you shouldn’t miss them. Then, the Arizona softball team will host New Mexico State (6th April) and after this match will play three times in a row vs. Houston at Hillebrand Stadium.
After these interesting matches, Arizona will have to visit Stanford for 3 matches in 3 days (15-17 April). All of these games will be televised on the Pac-12 Networks. But that’s not all. In the middle of April, The Cats will prepare for a tough six matches in just two weeks. Firstly, Arizona will play against UCLA (23-25 April). Two of these three matches can be watched on ESPN2. The third game (on Monday) will be broadcasted by the Pac-12 Networks.
In the last two weeks of the regular season The Arizona Wildcats will take on Oregon State (6-8 May) and then welcome California (12-14 May).