The Southland Conference softball tournament is the conference championship tournament in

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for the

Southland Conference The Southland Conference, abbreviated as SLC, is a collegiate athletic conference which operates in the South Central United States (specifically Texas and Louisiana). It participates in the NCAA's Division I for all sports; for football, it pa ...

(SLC). It is a double-elimination tournament and seeding is based on regular season records. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the

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Tournament

The Southland Conference softball tournament is a

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held each year at various SLC campus stadiums. The top seven SLC softball teams participate in the tournament (barring NCAA sanctions). Of the ten current members, only the

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does not sponsor softball.

History

The tournament was first held in 1983 when the conference began sponsoring softball. The tournament was not held from 1991 to 1995 and was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020.

Champions

Year-by-year

source: ;Notes * Former Southland members in ''italics''. * MVP from tournament champion team unless otherwise noted.

By school

Current Southland members in bold.

References

External links

Southland.org Southland Conference 2015 Softball
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