TUCSON, Ariz. -- The Arizona Wildcats (8-4) will play host to the Michigan State Spartans (1-9) for a midweek matchup at Hi Corbett Field on Tuesday, March 5. First pitch is scheduled for 6:00 PM MST.

A full game preview is below.
 

Date	Time (MST)/Results	Wildcats Pitcher	Spartans Pitcher
Tuesday, March 5	6:00 PM	TBA	TBA

Live Stream: Available through Arizona Live Stream-3
Radio: None
Live Stats: Available through StatBroadcast

All-Time Series: Michigan State leads, 2-0
Last Meeting: Michigan State defeated Arizona, 3-2, at the Pac-12/Big 10 Challenge on March 4, 2018

Leading Off...

• The Wildcats begin their second straight week at home with a midweek contest against the visiting Michigan State Spartans.
• Arizona and Michigan State have played each other just twice in their history, with the Spartans holding a 2-0 all-time series lead. Michigan State won the most recent matchup, 3-2, at the Pac-12/Big 10 Challenge on March 4, 2018 (Minneapolis, MN).
• Michigan State enters the midweek game with a record of 1-9, their only win of the year coming on an 8-4 decision on Opening Day at New Orleans. They are currently tied for last place in the Big Ten with Purdue (1-9).
• Arizona's Friday night victory over Milwaukee gave head coach Jay Johnson 200 career wins as an NCAA Division I head coach. Across time with Nevada (2014-15) and Arizona (2016-current), Johnson has steered his teams to a record of 201-113 (.640).
• After driving in a pair of runs in Friday night's victory, infielder Nick Quintana crossed the 100 career RBI mark. After this weekend's action, Quintana has 102 career RBI in a Wildcats uniform.
• Sunday afternoon's victory extended the Wildcats impressive stretch of non-conference home series play. Arizona has won or split every home non-conference series (2+ games) under head coach Jay Johnson, a stretch that includes 11 such series.

SERIES HISTORY: Tuesday night will be the third all-time meeting between Arizona and Michigan State...The Spartans currently lead the all-time series, 2-0...The most recent game between the two programs came on March 4, 2018 at the Pac-12/Big 10 Challenge at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis, MN - Michigan State won the game, 3-2...Six current Arizona players saw action in that game: Nick Quintana, Matt Fraizer, Cameron Cannon, Randy Labaut, Preston Price, and Jacob Blas...The only other matchup came in the 1954 College World Series on June 11 - the Spartans claimed a 2-1 victory in that matchup, handing the Wildcats their first loss of the '54 CWS.

STREAKONOMICS: Freshman infielder/first baseman Dayton Dooney currently sports the longest active on-base streak on the team, having reached base safely in each of his last 10 games...Over that stretch, dating back to February 16 (GM1) against UMass Lowell, Dooney has recorded seven base hits and drawn nine walks...Since sliding in as the Wildcats regular starter at second base on February 23, Dooney has logged a hit in five-of-six games while drawing five walks...Outfielders Matt Fraizer and Tate Soderstrom are tied for the team lead with the longest active hitting streaks, with both players having registered a base knock in six straight games...During Fraizer's streak, dating back to February 23 at Houston, he has hit .448 (13x29) with nine runs scored, six RBI, one double, and one home run...For Soderstrom, since his streak began on February 23 at Houston, he has hit .353 (6x17) with three runs scored, eight RBI, three doubles, and one home run.

FLAVA FRAZ: Something has clicked for junior outfielder Matt Fraizer, who through 12 games is off to the hottest start to a season of his career...Fraizer has logged at least one hit in 11-of-12 games this year and is currently tied with Cameron Cannon for the team lead in multi-hit games (7)...The left-handed hitting center fielder has posted four two-hit games, two three-hit outings, and one four-hit performance...With 16 RBI already on the year, Fraizer is already over halfway to his 2018 total of 28 RBI...His six-RBI outburst on February 17 against UMass Lowell was the best single-game RBI total of his career, tied for the Wildcats third-best best single-game individual mark during the StatCrew era (since 1998), and the best single-game mark by an Arizona player since JJ Matijevic drove in seven RBI against Arizona State on April 28, 2015...Fraizer currently leads the team and is tied for first in the Pac-12 with 22 hits and is tied for first on the team with 16 RBI (also: Ryan Holgate)...He also ranks second on the squad in runs scored (17) and total bases (30).

ONE-TWO PUNCH: Infielder Cameron Cannon and outfield Matt Fraizer have provided prodigious offense out of the first two spots in the Wildcats lineup this year...The duo up top in the order have combined to hit .413 (43x104) with 37 runs scored, 11 doubles, one triple, three home runs, 29 RBI, 64 total bases, 13 walks, and a .496 on-base percentage...Fraizer and Cannon have combined to reached base 13 times in 32 chances as the leadoff hitter in an inning, setting up the Wildcats with a leadoff runner on base over 40% of the times they've had the chance...But it's not just setting up the scoring that they've excelled at; Cannon (.588) and Fraizer (.435) have both posted batting averages north of .400 with runners in scoring position, collecting 20 RISP hits between the two of them...When it's all said and done, Fraizer and Cannon have accounted for over 27% of the Wildcats runs and nearly 24% of their RBI this season.

MR. 200: The Wildcats victory over Milwaukee on March 1 gave head coach Jay Johnson his 200th career win as an NCAA Division I head coach...Across time with Nevada (2014-15) and Arizona (2016-current) he has amassed a record of 201-113 (.640)...Johnson is the second-fastest coach to tally 200 career Division I wins among the current Pac-12 head coaches (first: George Horton, 287 games) after achieving the feat in just 312 games...During his first three seasons leading the Wildcats, Johnson averaged 40 wins per year...In addition to his 201 Division I wins, Johnson racked up a record of 37-16 in his one season as the head coach at Point Loma Nazarene in 2005.

Quickest to 200 Div. I Wins - Current Pac-12 Head Coaches

COACH	200th WIN	GAMES TO WIN 200	WIN % AT 200
George Horton	April 17, 2001	287	.697
Jay Johnson	March 1, 2019	312	.641
Tracy Smith	May 23, 2004	356	.562
David Esquer	May 10, 2006	386	.518
John Savage	May 24, 2008	403	.496
Lindsey Meggs	April 12, 2014	407	.491

MILESTONE MAN: Infielder Nick Quintana collected his 100th career RBI in a Wildcats uniform on Friday night against Wisconsin-Milwaukee...After gathering 38 as a freshman in 2017, Quintana led the team with 55 RBI during the 2018 campaign...Quintana's 55 RBI in 2018 ranked as the eighth-most collected by a single player in the Pac-12 last year...Of his now 102 career RBI, 63 (61.8%) of them have come while playing at home at Hi Corbett Field...Quintana's single-game career high mark in RBI is five, done twice: vs. Eastern Kentucky on Feb. 18, 2017 and vs. Grand Canyon, May 8, 2018...He has started and played in 126 games with the Wildcats and driven in multiple RBI in 25 of them...While Quintana has always been a strong presence at the plate for Arizona with a career batting average of .303, he has always dialed his game up to 11 with runners in scoring position...Throughout his three-year career with the Wildcats, Quintana has combined to hit .327 (56x171) with RISP.

BULLPEN BULLY: Through his first five collegiate appearances, reliever George Arias Jr. has allowed just one earned run on five hits while striking out four...Arias Jr. has limited opposing batters to a .227 batting average and stranded six-of-eight inherited baserunners...In his collegiate debut on Feb. 17 against UMass Lowell he worked 1.0 inning, allowing no hits and notching a strikeout...He has fanned at least one batter in three of his five outings this season.

SUPERMAN DOES GOOD, AUSTIN DOES WELLS: Freshman catcher/first baseman Austin Wells has enjoyed a spectacular start to his collegiate career...Wells has started in all of the Wildcats 12 games this year, and currently ranks second on the team with a .395 batting average...He has hit safely in 9-of-12 contests this season, with five multi-hit performances to his name...Wells currently ranks among the Pac-12's top players in runs scored (T-6th, 14), hits (T-5th, 17) and RBI (T-8th, 14)...In addition to those big numbers, Wells has showed patience at the plate - he is currently tied for third on the Wildcats with eight walks, and has posted a .464 on-base percentage.

HOME COOKIN': Since 2016, the Wildcats have posted a record of 76-22 (.776) in home games at Hi Corbett Field...During that three-year stretch, Arizona has a record of 21-4-1 in home series going two or more games...The Wildcats last dropped a home series April 20-22, 2018 against Stanford (0-3)...Arizona has not lost a non-conference home series while Jay Johnson has been head coach...During Johnson's tenure, the Wildcats have combined to hit .319 (1042x3262) while posting a 3.35 ERA (329x883.0) in home contests.