I exchanged questions with Arizona Desert Swarm SBNation blogger Brian J. Pedersen to learn more about the Wildcats team that just beat the Piss out of Ole, and will subsequently be our first opponent in Omaha. Here goes nothing:
1. Did you see this tourney run coming prior to the start of the season? I mean, you had a 10-5 truncated season in 2020 and began 2021 with a 4 game split with Ball State. Follow up question: when during this season did you know this team could make a run to Omaha?
Arizona coach Jay Johnson feels like his 2020 team was good enough to go to Omaha, and that one would have included a pair of high draft picks in catcher Austin Wells (1st round, Yankees) and 1B/DH Matthew Dyer (4th round, Mets).