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Arizona baseball: Wildcats set to hire Nevada head coach Jay Johnson

It seems the new head baseball coach at the University of Arizona will be Nevada's Jay Johnson.

Wanted to congratulate Jay Johnson the new head coach at University of Arizona. Well deserved,

— Frank Mutz (@sweetsmanager39) June 7, 2015

Johnson has only been at Nevada for two seasons, and won the Mountain West regular season title this year before the Wolf Pack were taken out in the conference tournament.

After a 31-17 overall record in 2014, Nevada improved to 41-15 in 2015, going 22-7 in the Mountain West.