The first half of the 2024 college softball season was full of excitement.
Oklahoma saw its 71-game winning streak come to an end at the beginning of the month. However, the team has since gotten back on track, winning 13 straight.
Also, as we gear up to say goodbye to the Pac-12 conference, Stanford, Washington, UCLA, Cal, Oregon and Arizona are making sure to go out with a bang. These programs rank among the best in the nation in this week’s ESPN.com/USA Softball Collegiate poll.
We asked our college softball experts which teams have impressed the most and which still have a lot to prove. They also made midseason player of the year picks, shared the storylines they will be watching as the season rolls on and named sleeper teams that could make a deep run in the Women’s College World Series.
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Which team has impressed you the most so far?
Jenny Dalton-Hill: LSU. A great team requires defense, pitching and run production that perform together. A championship team requires a team to overcompensate in one area when another isn’t clicking. The Tigers have been impressive, but the toughest part of their schedule is ahead of them. They have stumbled recently with losses to Ole Miss and…
