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Jay Johnson says there’s ‘no question’ Arizona baseball deserves top-8 seed

Arizona baseball head coach Jay Johnson won’t be losing sleep worrying about NCAA Tournament seed projections.

He knows his team has done enough to earn a top-8 national seed, which would allow Arizona to host a regional and Super Regional in the postseason.

“There’s no question about it,” Johnson said Saturday night after Arizona beat Dixie State 5-4 to conclude the regular season. “It’s not even a debate in my opinion.”

Arizona entered this week as the No. 4 seed in D1Baseball.com’s latest projections. A surprising Friday loss to Dixie State did nothing to change the Wildcats’ seeding according to D1Baseball, but it did drop them two spots in the RPI, from No.