Miami (OH) is the last undefeated mid-major team and has joined the top 10 at No. 8 of the Men\u2019s Other Top 25. The RedHawks sit a perfect 15-0 this season.<\/p>\n
They defeated Akron 76-73 Saturday to move to 3-0 in the MAC. Miami (OH) is scoring 93.7 points per game and shooting an insane 53.6% from the field. It ranks ninth in the country in scoring offense and leads the nation in field goal percentage, just a half of a percentage point ahead of fellow unbeatens Michigan and Iowa St. The RedHawks\u2019 63.4% effective field goal percentage is tops nationally as well, 13 points ahead of No. 2.<\/p>\n
Miami (OH) is 57th in the NET, 98th in KenPom and 99th in BartTorvik. Just three of its wins are against teams above Quad 4.<\/p>\n
Nevada also joined the top 10 this week as the Wolf Pack are No. 7 this week. Steve Alford\u2019s team holds an 11-3 record and has won seven straight games. It has wins over San Francisco, UC San Diego, Boise St. and Colorado St.<\/p>\n
The Wolf Pack are 66th in Torvik, 67th in the NET and 72nd in KenPom. During this seven-game win streak they are 32nd in Torvik, the second highest rated mid-major (behind New Mexico at 26).<\/p>\n
The Mountain West had four of the top 10, led by Utah St., who claimed the top spot for a third straight week. San Diego St. came in at six, followed by Nevada at seven and New Mexico ninth.<\/p>\n
The Atlantic 10 also featured four teams in the top 10. Saint Louis was second and earned one first-place vote. VCU and George Mason were back-to-back at four and five. Dayton dropped one spot to 10.<\/p>\n
Three teams joined the poll after not being ranked last week: Northern Iowa (No. 19), George Washington (No. 24) and Buffalo (No. 25).<\/p>\n
Here is the full ranking:<\/p>\n
Kent St. 15; Liberty 13; Utah Valley 11; St. Bonaventure 10; UNC Wilmington 10; San Francisco 9; William & Mary 9; Hawaii 7; Memphis 6; Hofstra 6; Loyola Marymount 4; Northern Colorado 3; High Point 3; North Texas 3; Richmond 1; Washington St. 1<\/p>\n
Hawaii \u2013 T-20; St. Bonaventure \u2013 T-22; Northern Colorado \u2013 T-22<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami (OH) is the last undefeated mid-major team and has joined the top 10 at No. 8 of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[2239,54979,123,125,124,54980],"class_list":["post-107167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-general","tag-mac","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mountain-west-conference"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}