Andy Lopez will be inducted during the College Baseball Night of Champions, an event held Feb. 2-3 in Omaha.
Arizona Daily Star Andy Lopez, who led Arizona to the 2012 College World Series title during more than a decade as the Wildcats' coach, has been selected to the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.
This year's hall of fame class was announced Wednesday morning. He will be inducted during the College Baseball Night of Champions, an event held Feb. 2-3 in Omaha. Lopez was inducted into the American Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame in 2018, and is a member of seven other halls of fame: the UA, Pima County, Pepperdine, UCLA, L.A. Harbor Community College, San Pedro and the South Bay.
Between 2002-15, Lopez — a native of San Pedro, California, who had won a national championship at Pepperdine — led the Wildcats to the postseason eight times.In 2011, they won it all. Led by pitchers Kurt Heyer and Konner Wade, Arizona went a perfect 10-0 in the postseason. The Wildcats beat defending champion South Carolina in the final. Last summer, the Star's Greg Hansen named the 2012 squad as the 20th-best team, all sports, in the history of Southern Arizona.
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