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Arizona, which clobbered Ole Miss tonight.

Should be an interesting matchup.

from their website - plagiarism alert about their coach

"Jay Johnson was hired as the University of Arizona's 16th head baseball coach in program history on June 8, 2015. The 2021 season will be Johnson's sixth leading the Wildcats.

In five seasons as the Wildcats' head coach, Johnson has amassed a 163-96 record, and is the first coach in school history to have led his team to the NCAA Tournament in each of his first two seasons as head coach. He has led his Wildcat teams to at least 30 wins in all four full seasons with Arizona and in all six of his full seasons as a Division I head coach. Since Johnson was hired by Arizona in 2016, only two other Pac-12 programs have logged 30+ wins every full season: Oregon State and Stanford. He is the only active Pac-12 head coach to have logged 30+ wins in each of his first six full seasons as a DI head coach. The program's 163 wins are the third-most in the Pac-12 since 2016.

Since Johnson’s arrival, Arizona has produced 15 All-Pac-12 first-team selections and 28 Major League Baseball draft picks. Arizona had a program-record six players drafted in the first 10 rounds of the 2018 MLB Draft and has produced 14 top-10 round picks during his time in Tucson."

They seem to build their team on offense and we do on pitching and fielding - will be the age old contest of offense vs defense.

They really crushed that RHP from Ole Miss last night. In listening to the commentators in the late innings, it does appear that they are really shaky on the mound. Apparently they had an ace reliever who was suspended for the tournament, and their "best" starter was chased in the second inning Saturday. They seemed to get some good innings from a few guys last night, so I suspect the back side of their staff is jumbled- as is ours.

Strange that the bio focuses so much on 30 wins. 30 wins is moderately above average.

oakparkDore wrote: ↑Mon Jun 14, 2021 9:20 am Strange that the bio focuses so much on 30 wins. 30 wins is moderately above average.

Well the important thing is that they are well above 40 wins THIS year.