Baseball America has Arizona in latest projected NCAA tournament field

If the college baseball season ended today, the Arizona Wildcats’ scorching play of the last few weeks would have landed it a spot in the NCAA tournament. At least according to Baseball America, which has the Wildcats in its latest projection for the 64-team field.

Sadly, there are still a few more games to play. But that just means Arizona (29-24) has a few more chances to pad its resume ahead of Monday’s official bracket reveal.

A week after noting its recent improved play and how it could get them into the tourney, Baseball America now has the Wildcats projected as a No. 3 seed in the Nashville Regional that would be hosted by No. 2 national seed Vanderbilt. Arizona is slated to open against Michigan (38-16), which at 45^th is one spot ahead of it in the current RPI rankings.

Arizona heads to Pullman on Thursday for a three-game series at Washington State (11-39-1, 3-23-1 Pac-12) having won seven in a row and 10 of 11. A sweep of the Cougars would give UA a 15-14 record in league play, possibly the last hurdle it needs to overcome to get into the NCAA tourney.

Last year the Wildcats had a 34-22 record and a No. 48 RPI but didn’t make the field, likely because of a 14-16 Pac-12 mark.