In just his first season at Arizona, head coach Jay Johnson has the Wildcats headed to Omaha, Nebraska for the program's 17th College World Series appearance. Despite being routinely looked over in the preseason, the Wildcats find themselves a few wins away from playing for a National Championship.
Many publications had Arizona picked near the bottom of the Pac-12 Conference and D1baseball.com left them off of its preseason field of 64 altogether, but here the Wildcats are. The Wildcats won the Lafayette Regional and then swept the Mississippi State Bulldogs in the Super Regionals in front of over 13,000 intense Bulldog fans.