Given all that he already has accomplished, it’s easy to forget that Jay Johnson is just getting started.
Wednesday will mark his two-year anniversary as coach of the Arizona Wildcats. In that time, he has guided the Wildcats to within a hit of a national championship – when they weren’t even supposed to qualify for the postseason – and a second consecutive NCAA Tournament berth.
The latter appearance ended sooner than hoped: Arizona got knocked out of the Lubbock Regional on Sunday with a 9-3 loss to Sam Houston State. Still, the Wildcats played in back-to-back postseasons for the first time since 2011-12, and they were the only Pac-12 school that could make such a claim.