The 2026 Southland Conference softball tournament was held from April 30 through 3 and May 7 to 9. The top eight regular season finishers of the league's ten teams met in double-elimination tournaments held at the home fields of the #1 and #2 seeded teams. The finals were held at the home field of the highest remaining seeded team.The tournament was won by the McNeese Cowgirls, who earned the Southland Conference's automatic bid to the 2026 NCAA Division I softball tournament.
Seeding and format The top eight finishers from the regular season were seeded one through eight, and played a two bracket, double-elimination tournament. The bracket winners moved to the championship series, held at the home field of the highest remaining seeded team. Teams were seeded by record within the conference with a tie–breaker system to seed teams with identical conference records. The top eight teams in the conference qualified for the tournament.
SeedSchoolConference Tie-breaker #1 Tie-breaker #21 Southeastern Louisiana 24–3 2 McNeese 18–9 3 Nicholls 17–10 2–1 vs. Incarnate Word4 Incarnate Word 17–10 1–2 vs. Nicholls5 Lamar 16–11 6 Northwestern State 13–14 2–1 vs. Stephen F. Austin 7 Stephen F. Austin 13–14 1–2 vs. Northwestern State 8 Texas A&M–Corpus Christi 8–19 Note: Houston Christian and East Texas A&M failed to qualify. New Orleans and UT Rio Grande Valley do not sponsor a softball team.
Results
All Tournament Team Player Team Kassidy Chance Idaho State Jada Muñoz Maddie Weeks Rylee Cloud Meiko Dominguez Maddie Taylor Reagan Smith Lamar Isabella Flores Sicily Windham Gracee Hess Hallie Burns Southeastern Louisiana Claire Sisco Nicholls MVP in boldSource:
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