Sport | College Softball |
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Founded | 2016 |
Founder | National Fastpitch Coaches Association |
First season | 2017 |
No. of teams | 8 possible bids |
Country | USA |
Most recent champion(s) | Iowa (2023) |
Most titles | 5 way tie (1) |
Related competitions | NCAA Division I Softball Championship |
Official website | http://www.womensnisc.com |
The National Invitational Softball Championship (NISC) is a postseason women's college softball tournament sponsored by the National Fastpitch Coaches Association (NFCA) and operated by Triple Crown Sports, Inc., a company that produces events for college and youth athletics. The tournament is for NCAA Division I teams that did not qualify for the NCAA Division I Softball Championship. Announced in December 2016, there are to be thirty-two automatic qualifiers from the thirty-two NCAA-sanctioned conferences and sixteen at-large teams selected on the basis of their RPI ranking and/or their season's performance (i.e. won-lost record, record versus top-50 teams).[1][needs update]