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Jay Johnson calls Arizona’s Pac-12 baseball title ‘very meaningful’ after 2019, 2020 disappointments

Fresh off coaching Arizona to a share of its first Pac-12 title in nearly a decade, Jay Johnson was asked to describe what it’s like to navigate the conference that he considers the best in college baseball.

“If you’ve watched the movie ‘300,’ and some of those battle scenes, that’s what I would liken it to,” Johnson said Sunday night, a few hours after the Wildcats rallied to win at Oregon State. “The last five seasons … there’s been five different champions. If something doesn’t scream parity (more) than that I don’t know what does.