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Topic:  Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
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  Message Not Read  Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 2/27/2026 2:15:24 PM 
Miami's new arena officially approved today.

https://miamioh.edu/news/2026/02/new-multipurpose-arena-a...

There is a lot of winning happening in Oxford these days. But hey...at least our University is promoting a new shirt with "The Convo" on it for Senior night against Toledo.

Sure seems like we are light years behind Miami hoops...both on and off the court.

Last Edited: 2/27/2026 2:15:59 PM by FearLeon

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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 2/27/2026 3:34:13 PM 
I don't disagree but it's worth noting that fortunes change quickly in the MAC. Not long ago that Miami posted three consecutive losing seasons and was probably outdrawn by Hamilton High School. It's also a massive $250 million+ gamble for any mid-major school to make in the middle of seismic changes in college athletics. No one knows what the landscape will look like next year - let alone with this arena is completed or worse yet when it's finally paid off. I think we're likely to see an official bifurcation of the haves and have-nots and it'll lead to even less student interest.

As a fan, I'm jealous of their progress. As a rational person, I would hate to see Ohio University pour more than a quarter billion dollars into an unprofitable athletic department for a program where many students remain at best ambivalent about sports.

So many of us on this board are old and gray, and we remember what it was like when we were in school. A loud and exciting Ozone, going toe-to-toe with high majors on a regular basis... I don't see any of that coming back longterm. Even Miami's historic season is bound to end in a thud with an early NCAA tournament exit (or worse), then they'll be picked clean by graduations, transfers and coaching defections. Sustainable excellence was really hard back in the olden days and it is nearly impossible now.

Put another way, remember when some people here were jealous of Akron's new football stadium? Not saying Miami's arena will be as big of a fiscal disaster, but I guarantee it will take millions of budget dollars away every year from other areas of the university. Not jealous of that.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 2/27/2026 5:10:26 PM 
They haven't won the MAC tourney since 2007, haven't won an NCAA tourney game since 1999, have had 3 winning seasons last 17 years. Nice 2-year stretch but how is FL Atlantic doing after that Final 4 run? Remember Dunk City? St Peter's? UMBC?

Roster will be gutted, Steele leaves for greener pastures but, sure, they have a new arena. Should be focusing on hockey where they can win a national title, get to Frozen Fours consistently. Can't do that in mbb & fb.

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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 2/27/2026 5:49:16 PM 
Steele will be OSU's coach in 2027, mark my words
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 2/28/2026 8:45:44 AM 
Recovering Journalist wrote:
I don't disagree but it's worth noting that fortunes change quickly in the MAC. Not long ago that Miami posted three consecutive losing seasons and was probably outdrawn by Hamilton High School. It's also a massive $250 million+ gamble for any mid-major school to make in the middle of seismic changes in college athletics. No one knows what the landscape will look like next year - let alone with this arena is completed or worse yet when it's finally paid off. I think we're likely to see an official bifurcation of the haves and have-nots and it'll lead to even less student interest.

As a fan, I'm jealous of their progress. As a rational person, I would hate to see Ohio University pour more than a quarter billion dollars into an unprofitable athletic department for a program where many students remain at best ambivalent about sports.

So many of us on this board are old and gray, and we remember what it was like when we were in school. A loud and exciting Ozone, going toe-to-toe with high majors on a regular basis... I don't see any of that coming back longterm. Even Miami's historic season is bound to end in a thud with an early NCAA tournament exit (or worse), then they'll be picked clean by graduations, transfers and coaching defections. Sustainable excellence was really hard back in the olden days and it is nearly impossible now.

Put another way, remember when some people here were jealous of Akron's new football stadium? Not saying Miami's arena will be as big of a fiscal disaster, but I guarantee it will take millions of budget dollars away every year from other areas of the university. Not jealous of that.


Thanks for applying some sanity. If one thing is as sure as death and taxes it's that schools will overreact and overreach after flashes of success.

Miami might be just as good next year, but if they play a tougher schedule, they'll go into MAC play 6-5, no poll interest and their fans will return to their caves regardless of the potential for mac success.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 2/28/2026 9:31:13 AM 
Looks like the new joint (for hoops) sits 6,500?

I would be a fan of some sort of pipe dream upgrade to the Convo and tighten up the seating to 7-8K. It would be nice to see some new paint on The Roundhouse and get rid of the 3-4K seats that rarely see action.

NIL and athletic facility upgrades may only be affordable but the rich kids.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 2/28/2026 9:39:13 AM 

I’ll just post this again here. Not a single university lost money on athletics. They know exactly where every dime is being spent.

This is great for Miami. They are positioning themselves to stay relevant in all aspects. The “athletics costs to much” theory died a long time ago. Catch up folks.








Can somebody hit a pull up jumper for me?.....

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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 2/28/2026 10:16:03 AM 
Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:
Recovering Journalist wrote:
I don't disagree but it's worth noting that fortunes change quickly in the MAC. Not long ago that Miami posted three consecutive losing seasons and was probably outdrawn by Hamilton High School. It's also a massive $250 million+ gamble for any mid-major school to make in the middle of seismic changes in college athletics. No one knows what the landscape will look like next year - let alone with this arena is completed or worse yet when it's finally paid off. I think we're likely to see an official bifurcation of the haves and have-nots and it'll lead to even less student interest.

As a fan, I'm jealous of their progress. As a rational person, I would hate to see Ohio University pour more than a quarter billion dollars into an unprofitable athletic department for a program where many students remain at best ambivalent about sports.

So many of us on this board are old and gray, and we remember what it was like when we were in school. A loud and exciting Ozone, going toe-to-toe with high majors on a regular basis... I don't see any of that coming back longterm. Even Miami's historic season is bound to end in a thud with an early NCAA tournament exit (or worse), then they'll be picked clean by graduations, transfers and coaching defections. Sustainable excellence was really hard back in the olden days and it is nearly impossible now.

Put another way, remember when some people here were jealous of Akron's new football stadium? Not saying Miami's arena will be as big of a fiscal disaster, but I guarantee it will take millions of budget dollars away every year from other areas of the university. Not jealous of that.


Thanks for applying some sanity. If one thing is as sure as death and taxes it's that schools will overreact and overreach after flashes of success.

Miami might be just as good next year, but if they play a tougher schedule, they'll go into MAC play 6-5, no poll interest and their fans will return to their caves regardless of the potential for mac success.


Akron and Kent both played at Purdue.

Guess who is a two hour bus ride from Purdue and didn't play them?
Guess who is a two hour bus ride from Louisville and didn't play them?

Hell would freeze over before fiami plays a ranked team out of conference again.

They should change their name to the chicken hawks.

Last Edited: 2/28/2026 10:16:50 AM by greencat
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 2/28/2026 10:52:06 AM 
greencat wrote:
Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:
Recovering Journalist wrote:
I don't disagree but it's worth noting that fortunes change quickly in the MAC. Not long ago that Miami posted three consecutive losing seasons and was probably outdrawn by Hamilton High School. It's also a massive $250 million+ gamble for any mid-major school to make in the middle of seismic changes in college athletics. No one knows what the landscape will look like next year - let alone with this arena is completed or worse yet when it's finally paid off. I think we're likely to see an official bifurcation of the haves and have-nots and it'll lead to even less student interest.

As a fan, I'm jealous of their progress. As a rational person, I would hate to see Ohio University pour more than a quarter billion dollars into an unprofitable athletic department for a program where many students remain at best ambivalent about sports.

So many of us on this board are old and gray, and we remember what it was like when we were in school. A loud and exciting Ozone, going toe-to-toe with high majors on a regular basis... I don't see any of that coming back longterm. Even Miami's historic season is bound to end in a thud with an early NCAA tournament exit (or worse), then they'll be picked clean by graduations, transfers and coaching defections. Sustainable excellence was really hard back in the olden days and it is nearly impossible now.

Put another way, remember when some people here were jealous of Akron's new football stadium? Not saying Miami's arena will be as big of a fiscal disaster, but I guarantee it will take millions of budget dollars away every year from other areas of the university. Not jealous of that.


Thanks for applying some sanity. If one thing is as sure as death and taxes it's that schools will overreact and overreach after flashes of success.

Miami might be just as good next year, but if they play a tougher schedule, they'll go into MAC play 6-5, no poll interest and their fans will return to their caves regardless of the potential for mac success.


Akron and Kent both played at Purdue.

Guess who is a two hour bus ride from Purdue and didn't play them?
Guess who is a two hour bus ride from Louisville and didn't play them?

Hell would freeze over before fiami plays a ranked team out of conference again.

They should change their name to the chicken hawks.


Cool. There are 12 teams we play in common with Miami every year. This year, they haven't lost to any of them. We're 9-6.

Miami's program is in a much, much better spot than ours. We can focus on how their 29-0 record overstates how much better they are than us if we want to. Or we can acknowledge that they hired a better coach, have done a much better job adapting to the new state of college basketball, and just unveiled a plan to put their foot on the gas.

I see them trying. Our program is running on place.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 2/28/2026 10:58:33 AM 
By the way, Steele's base salary is $300k.
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   Posted: 2/28/2026 11:26:07 AM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
By the way, Steele's base salary is $300k.


So we have a coach being paid twice as much, possibly the highest paid transfer in the MAC, three senior starters...and we are the program that was .500 last season and slightly above the middle of the pack this time?

We could either:

A) cling to Boals and this staff and hope for some miracle

or

B) bring in a whole new staff with a whole new direction
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 3/3/2026 9:17:21 AM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:


Cool. There are 12 teams we play in common with Miami every year. This year, they haven't lost to any of them. We're 9-6.

Miami's program is in a much, much better spot than ours. We can focus on how their 29-0 record overstates how much better they are than us if we want to. Or we can acknowledge that they hired a better coach, have done a much better job adapting to the new state of college basketball, and just unveiled a plan to put their foot on the gas.

I see them trying. Our program is running on place.


I never said they weren't lapping our program in terms of this year. I said nothing negative about the quality of their team this year. I just think it's profoundly risky at best and likely stupid to pour more than a quarter billion dollars into a new arena in an era where mid-majors are already becoming less relevant in a trend that's likely to continue.

They're vying for the crown of tallest midget in a MAC that's increasingly irrelevant. They have yet to win the MAC Tournament, an NCAA game, or demonstrate in any way that this run is sustainable and you're talking like they've solved the riddle of sustained excellence that is nearly impossible for a mid-major, especially one that has to feed the maws of football AND hockey.

Our program is mired in mediocrity but like any other program it's one good hire and/or a few of the right NIL hits away from contending. It's not about who has the newest arena. If it was, BG would have been the undisputed leader of the MAC for the last 15 years. That might be one reason 89% of Miami alumni, students and faculty oppose the project.

https://www.miamistudent.net/article/2026/01/survey-findi...
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 3/3/2026 9:34:48 AM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
By the way, Steele's base salary is $300k.


40 year old coach fresh off being fired from his only head coaching job, taking a new job with a team that didn't have a single .500 season in any of the previous 15 or so years? Sounds about right.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 3/3/2026 9:44:43 AM 
Recovering Journalist wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:


Cool. There are 12 teams we play in common with Miami every year. This year, they haven't lost to any of them. We're 9-6.

Miami's program is in a much, much better spot than ours. We can focus on how their 29-0 record overstates how much better they are than us if we want to. Or we can acknowledge that they hired a better coach, have done a much better job adapting to the new state of college basketball, and just unveiled a plan to put their foot on the gas.

I see them trying. Our program is running on place.


I never said they weren't lapping our program in terms of this year. I said nothing negative about the quality of their team this year. I just think it's profoundly risky at best and likely stupid to pour more than a quarter billion dollars into a new arena in an era where mid-majors are already becoming less relevant in a trend that's likely to continue.

They're vying for the crown of tallest midget in a MAC that's increasingly irrelevant. They have yet to win the MAC Tournament, an NCAA game, or demonstrate in any way that this run is sustainable and you're talking like they've solved the riddle of sustained excellence that is nearly impossible for a mid-major, especially one that has to feed the maws of football AND hockey.

Our program is mired in mediocrity but like any other program it's one good hire and/or a few of the right NIL hits away from contending. It's not about who has the newest arena. If it was, BG would have been the undisputed leader of the MAC for the last 15 years. That might be one reason 89% of Miami alumni, students and faculty oppose the project.

https://www.miamistudent.net/article/2026/01/survey-findi...


If you read the link and embedded articles, the opposition was to the site and larger concept and not the arena
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 3/3/2026 9:59:18 AM 
M.D.W.S.T wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
By the way, Steele's base salary is $300k.


40 year old coach fresh off being fired from his only head coaching job, taking a new job with a team that didn't have a single .500 season in any of the previous 15 or so years? Sounds about right.


And proceeded to lap our 800k coach in a handful of years. Whose strategy here is better, exactly? We pay like we're a top program in the conference, but perform like a mediocre one. They pay based on their reality, but get the hire right and are a bubble team for an at large bid.

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   Posted: 3/3/2026 10:10:56 AM 
Miami will rue the day they took on this debt. I read elsewhere that they have raised a whopping $450K in donations for the project. The debt service will be paralyzing. Just consider the difficulty OU had paying off the Convo bill ($8MM!) after the program's trajectory (and enrollment) flattened out in the mid-70s. Malpractice by MU's board, IMO.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 3/3/2026 10:44:48 AM 
SBH wrote:
Miami will rue the day they took on this debt. I read elsewhere that they have raised a whopping $450K in donations for the project. The debt service will be paralyzing. Just consider the difficulty OU had paying off the Convo bill ($8MM!) after the program's trajectory (and enrollment) flattened out in the mid-70s. Malpractice by MU's board, IMO.


Commodity inflation is a risk to completing it within budget.

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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 3/3/2026 11:15:09 AM 
SBH wrote:
Miami will rue the day they took on this debt. I read elsewhere that they have raised a whopping $450K in donations for the project. The debt service will be paralyzing. Just consider the difficulty OU had paying off the Convo bill ($8MM!) after the program's trajectory (and enrollment) flattened out in the mid-70s. Malpractice by MU's board, IMO.





The dollar is being debased so quickly now that I do not think those two situations are comparable

I've seen crazier things happen.

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   Posted: 3/3/2026 11:50:41 AM 
Diamond Cat wrote:
Looks like the new joint (for hoops) sits 6,500?

I would be a fan of some sort of pipe dream upgrade to the Convo and tighten up the seating to 7-8K. It would be nice to see some new paint on The Roundhouse and get rid of the 3-4K seats that rarely see action.

NIL and athletic facility upgrades may only be affordable but the rich kids.


Upgrades to the Convo that allow for concessions that are better than what is served at middle school games would be nice.
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   Posted: 3/4/2026 9:17:23 AM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
M.D.W.S.T wrote:
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
By the way, Steele's base salary is $300k.


40 year old coach fresh off being fired from his only head coaching job, taking a new job with a team that didn't have a single .500 season in any of the previous 15 or so years? Sounds about right.


And proceeded to lap our 800k coach in a handful of years. Whose strategy here is better, exactly? We pay like we're a top program in the conference, but perform like a mediocre one. They pay based on their reality, but get the hire right and are a bubble team for an at large bid.



I mean, don't let me stop you from your irrational shitposting, but we pay like we're a top program in the conference because we are indeed a top program in the conference. And thats where we want to position ourselves. One mediocre year doesn't mean Boals wasn't worth the contract after leading us to the NCAA Tournament...? I mean, what are we doin here? Comparing Boals contract after winning the MAC title and an NCAA tournament game vs Steele after getting fired and taking a job at a school that didn't go .500 for the previous several decades is an absolutely atrocious attempt at an apples to oranges. You're better than this.

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M.D.W.S.T wrote:


I mean, don't let me stop you from your irrational shitposting, but we pay like we're a top program in the conference because we are indeed a top program in the conference.


We're a top program in the conference when it's convenient. Like when you're trying to justify Boals making 2.5x a much better coach at our biggest rival.

But when Boals apologists are defending him, we're no longer a top program in the conference. We don't have a practice facility, we don't have any money, the administration has failed to support the basketball program, and on and on.

Hard to keep up with what's true here.



M.D.W.S.T wrote:

And thats where we want to position ourselves. One mediocre year doesn't mean Boals wasn't worth the contract after leading us to the NCAA Tournament...?


One mediocre year?

This year: 15-15 with two wins against D2 schools
Last year: 16-16 with a win against a D2 school



M.D.W.S.T wrote:

I mean, what are we doin here? Comparing Boals contract after winning the MAC title and an NCAA tournament game vs Steele after getting fired and taking a job at a school that didn't go .500 for the previous several decades is an absolutely atrocious attempt at an apples to oranges. You're better than this.


I'm not trying to make an apples-to-apples comparison, dude. I'm pointing out that Boals hasn't met the expectations of the contract we gave him, and we may well be able to get our next coach for a whole lot less money. Which would be good, given that we also can give money to players now.

I know you get weird and sensitive when people critique Jeff Boals. But you haven't been able to put together a decent defense of the program for a solid 24 months now, and it's gonna get worse before it gets better.

If you think our biggest rival paying $300k and sitting at 30-0 isn't a relevant data point, no idea what to tell you. Another? Todd K. makes half what Boals makes and is 13-1 against him.

We paid Boals a lot to try and sustain his early success. He hasn't done so and it's now a bad contract. Let me know when you're emotionally able to handle people pointing that out.
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   Posted: 3/4/2026 5:45:58 PM 
Bobcat Love's Sense of Shame wrote:
By the way, Steele's base salary is $300k.


And Ohio’s former AD made the Bobcat mens basketball coach the top paid coach in the conference a few years ago. Several fifth seed performances and occasional third seed finish does not justify rewarding a coach as the top paid coach in the league.

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   Posted: 3/4/2026 6:04:13 PM 
greencat wrote:
Deciduous Forest Cat wrote:
Recovering Journalist wrote:
I don't disagree but it's worth noting that fortunes change quickly in the MAC. Not long ago that Miami posted three consecutive losing seasons and was probably outdrawn by Hamilton High School. It's also a massive $250 million+ gamble for any mid-major school to make in the middle of seismic changes in college athletics. No one knows what the landscape will look like next year - let alone with this arena is completed or worse yet when it's finally paid off. I think we're likely to see an official bifurcation of the haves and have-nots and it'll lead to even less student interest.

As a fan, I'm jealous of their progress. As a rational person, I would hate to see Ohio University pour more than a quarter billion dollars into an unprofitable athletic department for a program where many students remain at best ambivalent about sports.

So many of us on this board are old and gray, and we remember what it was like when we were in school. A loud and exciting Ozone, going toe-to-toe with high majors on a regular basis... I don't see any of that coming back longterm. Even Miami's historic season is bound to end in a thud with an early NCAA tournament exit (or worse), then they'll be picked clean by graduations, transfers and coaching defections. Sustainable excellence was really hard back in the olden days and it is nearly impossible now.

Put another way, remember when some people here were jealous of Akron's new football stadium? Not saying Miami's arena will be as big of a fiscal disaster, but I guarantee it will take millions of budget dollars away every year from other areas of the university. Not jealous of that.


Thanks for applying some sanity. If one thing is as sure as death and taxes it's that schools will overreact and overreach after flashes of success.

Miami might be just as good next year, but if they play a tougher schedule, they'll go into MAC play 6-5, no poll interest and their fans will return to their caves regardless of the potential for mac success.


Akron and Kent both played at Purdue.

Guess who is a two hour bus ride from Purdue and didn't play them?
Guess who is a two hour bus ride from Louisville and didn't play them?

Hell would freeze over before fiami plays a ranked team out of conference again.

They should change their name to the chicken hawks.


Miami did not play one power four school this season but lost to Indiana and Michigan last season. The Redhawk schedule this season is similar to what the Bobcats faced in 2023-24 and 2024-25 with no power four schools on the schedule.
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  Message Not Read  RE: Miami New Arena Approved: Will Be Ready For 2028-2029 Season
   Posted: 3/5/2026 11:24:48 AM 
Bobcat1996 wrote:

Miami did not play one power four school this season but lost to Indiana and Michigan last season. The Redhawk schedule this season is similar to what the Bobcats faced in 2023-24 and 2024-25 with no power four schools on the schedule.


But no not similar. 24-25 in particular was a long list of solid opponents. Without looking, I would bet we played 5-6 teams with much higher computer rankings than any of the teams Miami played this year. It wasn't just the lack of P4 for Miami it was the low quality of the mid-majors. And 2 of their toughest opponents were dictated to them from the Sun Belt challenge.

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   Posted: 3/6/2026 3:07:22 PM 
Andrew Ruck wrote:
Bobcat1996 wrote:

Miami did not play one power four school this season but lost to Indiana and Michigan last season. The Redhawk schedule this season is similar to what the Bobcats faced in 2023-24 and 2024-25 with no power four schools on the schedule.


But no not similar. 24-25 in particular was a long list of solid opponents. Without looking, I would bet we played 5-6 teams with much higher computer rankings than any of the teams Miami played this year. It wasn't just the lack of P4 for Miami it was the low quality of the mid-majors. And 2 of their toughest opponents were dictated to them from the Sun Belt challenge.


Miami's schedule is currently ranked 198th. Our schedule last year was 202nd.

According to this source, at least: https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/ranking/sche... .

But honestly, all of the Miami schedule talk is just petty and sad. Our SOS is 180th at the moment. There are 365 DI schools; the difference between 180 and 198 is pretty insignificant.

And the whole discussion's made all the more silly by the fact that we have a whole conference worth of shared opponents with Miami. They've beaten all of them, we're 9-8 in conference.

We're a .500 team over two seasons where our SOS averaged 191. And we're trying to act like 30-0 isn't a big deal because their SOS is 198? Just sort of sad.





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