First of all, there's a Miami of Ohio? Secondly, they went 31-0 and I've never heard of a single one of their players.

They say Cinderella is dead in college basketball. I'm hoping that's not true. The tournament is better with the mid majors.

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but go Miami.......of Ohio!!!! Heck with that other Miami.

8 hours ago, GatOrlando said:

First of all, there's a Miami of Ohio? Secondly, they went 31-0 and I've never heard of a single one of their players.

They say Cinderella is dead in college basketball. I'm hoping that's not true. The tournament is better with the mid majors.

I can't believe I'm going to say this, but go Miami.......of Ohio!!!! Heck with that other Miami.

Miami of Ohio - The Cradle of (football) Coaches - Paul Brown, Woody Hayes, Bo Schembechler, Ara Parseghian, Sid Gillman, Weeb Ewbank, John Harbaugh, and Sean McVay played ball and graduated from Miami of Ohio.

QB - Ben Roethlisberger

Basketball alum - Ron Harper, 5-time NBA champ, Wayne Embry, and on-air personality, Wally Szczerbiak.

Founding chapter of my Frat - Beta Theta Pi.

23rd President of the USA - Benjamin Harrison

And, my dentist. 😁

Beautiful college town about two hours west of Columbus.

An "amazing" season. They have won 4 regulation games by 2 points each. And, another 4 games in overtime by a total of 14. Plus, another regulation game by 3 pts.

Their last 3 regular season games were 2 pts, 2 pts, and 2 pts in OT.

Aside from "luck," the whole psychological aspect of that within a team would make an interesting newspaper column.

I read an article on this team and the relevant number for me was their schedule was ranked next to last of all teams in regards to strength of schedule. They won't be around for long IMHO. Even at 31-0 they are still on the bubble.

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Will be interesting to see how many B1G teams get at-large selections.

ESPN Power Index

1-Michigan

6-Mich St

8-Nebraska

12-Purdue

13-Illinois

21-Miami (OH)

27-Wisconsin

33-UCLA

36-Iowa

38-OSU

46-Indiana

50-USC

76-UW

86-Minnesota

89-Northwestern

103-Maryland

105-Rutgers

110-Oregon

115-Penn St

Hey now, my father was an alum of Miami-Brackets-Ohio, as he said it was known, in Oxford, Ohio, located in the Miami Valley, named after the Myaamia People. 10th-oldest public university in the country, 18,000 students.

Miami had some very good football teams in the 1970s and 80s. One of those teams was matched against Georgia in the old Tangerine Bowl IIRC. I was in Athens by then, was familiar with Miami during the three years I had spent in MAC country, and warned Dawg partisans they had better prepare diligently for this team or risk getting their butts kicked. Vince Dooley preached the same message, but the scuttlebutt I heard surrounding the upcoming game was that Ole Coach was crying wolf as he so often did.

I don't remember the score but Miami did indeed kick some tail that game and were clearly the better team on the field that day. Had the two teams played 10 games, I think Miami would have won seven of them!