The undefeated Arizona Wildcats baseball team is about to face several new challenges.

Arizona hits the road for the first time this season. The Wildcats will face a higher level of competition. And they will have to deal with the first significant in-season injury since Jay Johnson became coach.

It’s at times like these that structure works in Arizona’s favor. Johnson puts a detailed plan in place each week, no matter where or whom the Wildcats are playing.

“When you take away the uncertainty … that puts everybody’s mind at ease,” Johnson said. “We tend to stay to a pretty strict schedule in terms of details and what we want to accomplish and keeping their mind on the task at hand. They’ll be ready to play.”

Arizona is off to an 8-0 start, having swept four-game series against Eastern Kentucky and McNeese State in the familiar environs of Hi Corbett Field.

With all due respect to the Colonels and Cowboys — who are 8-2 against opponents other than the Wildcats — neither is on the same level as the UA’s first two foes in the Frisco College Baseball Classic.