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Unbelievably Good: Arizona completes perfect run to college baseball championship

Tuesday, June 26th, 2012
Arizona Wildcats championship team photo

Wildcats Own Omaha.
Photo by Harry How/Getty Images

All year the University of Arizona baseball team broke its huddles with a call of “Omaha!” Once they got to Omaha the cry switched to “Win it!”

It has been won.

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Thin Is In: Arizona Baseball makes up for lack of depth with dominance on way to College World Series finals

Friday, June 22nd, 2012
Trent Gilbert and Sherman Johnson

Florida State didn’t get this call and Arizona quickly got control.
Photo by Matt Ryerson-US PRESSWIRE

The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.

The Arizona Wildcats have proven the shortest path from the start of the NCAA tournament to the College World Series Championship Finals is win, win, win, win, win, win, win win.

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This Week in the Pac-12, Jun. 21: Arizona Baseball plays on at College World Series

Thursday, June 21st, 2012
Andy Lopez and Kurt Heyer at College World Series

Andy Lopez wants Kurt Heyer to get this done right now.
Photo by Matt Ryerson-US PRESSWIRE

And then there was one.

Eleven Pac-12 baseball teams started the season. Five made the NCAA tournament. Four won their regional. Two advanced to the College World Series.

Then, with UCLA falling to Florida State and being eliminated in the CWS quarterfinals Tuesday night, only the Arizona Wildcats remain.

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Capital A-Game: Arizona Baseball has The Look after two College World Series wins

Monday, June 18th, 2012
Andy Lopez and Konner Wade

A lot of Wildcat dads wanted to embrace Konner Wade on Father’s Day.
Photo by Bruce Thorson-US PRESSWIRE

The Arizona Wildcats baseball team came into the College World Series as a team that had already accomplished a long list of goals.

Now, after winning two games in Omaha, the UA has The Look. That’s capital T – The – capital L – Look, as in dangerous enough to win the big capital C.

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This Week in the Pac-12, Jun. 15: College World Series Preview

Friday, June 15th, 2012
2012 Pac-12 baseball champions

Arizona is dreaming of another trophy.
Photo by Anthony Gimino, TucsonCitizen.com

Fact: Starting in 1970, every other time the Arizona Wildcats baseball team made it to the College World Series, the UA won it all.

Arizona last went to the CWS in 2004. The Cats did not win the national championship. Does this team have what it takes to continue the decades-long trend?

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