This year, ESPN knocked it out of the park in regards to the Women's College Softball World Series. Literally.

With the most amount of games broadcasted in history, ESPN broadcasted the entire NCAA Postseason. This amounts to 99 games via regional championships and 21 from the next step after regionals, super regionals. Softball fans were not mad.

All of these historic televised games led to the championship series, number one ranked Florida Gators versus the number ten ranked Oklahoma Sooners. The teams have split the championships in the past four years, with each school taking two. As viewers, we wished for an epic game series. Ask and you shall receive. Here are four lessons learned from the 2017 Women's College Softball World Series.

1. Softball Games can indeed last 17 innings.

If you are a softball fan, former player, or coach, you know this can happen. The real question is, have you ever seen it occur? It did during game one of the championship series. After multiple lead changes, Oklahoma's Shay Knighten jacked a three-run homer that sealed the deal.

If you are not a softball fan and stayed up for this, welcome. This sport is awesome.

2. Rankings are weird.

Yes, Florida was the number one ranked team. No, they did not win. Oklahoma was ranked tenth. They won. Minnesota at the time of post-season seeding had a 54-3 record, were the champions of the Big Ten Conference, and were ranked first in the country in the USA Today poll during the time of selection. Did they get a seeding? Nah.

3. Repeats are real.

The Oklahoma Sooners won the title in 2016, as mentioned prior. Despite being one out away from getting knocked out in the regional stage, they pushed on as the tenth ranked team. The team remembered the feeling. The team recreated the feeling.

4. The World loves softball.

The average amount of people who watched the 17th inning marathon in game one: 1.72 million.

The amount of humans tuned in during the 16th inning: 2.15 million.

2017 MLB's Monday Night Baseball average audience: 1.1 million.

Cool.

Tune in next year for the 2018 Women's College World Series and this summer when Team USA takes on the world