Despite falling to Oklahoma in the Big 12 Tournament title, Texas softball earned the No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament on Sunday. It marked a first for the Longhorns, who had previously hosted several regionals but never been the top overall team according to the committee. NCAA Softball Tournament committee chair Kurt McGuffin, the athletic director at UT-Martin, joined the Selection Show on ESPN2 to explain why Texas stood out. He cited the team’s strength of schedule in the nonconference and the success they had in that stretch as the main reason. “I think we constantly had Texas in the No…