{"id":155757,"date":"2026-02-14T19:29:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155757\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T19:29:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:29:11","slug":"miami-of-ohio-coach-makes-bold-undefeated-promise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155757\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami of Ohio coach makes bold undefeated promise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami of Ohio head coach Travis Steele has a big promise if his team goes undefeated this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Just nine wins away from accomplishing the feat, the Redhawks\u2019 Steele is going to (nearly) show it all off on Selection Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Steele, during a Saturday appearance on \u201cCollege GameDay,\u201d vowed to wear a Speedo during the NCAA Tournament selection show if the Redhawks go 34-0 in a nod to his team\u2019s biggest supporters.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDone,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CollegeGameDay\/status\/2022694672464851350\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Steele told ESPN\u2019s Rece Davis<\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Since late January, Miami\u2019s men\u2019s swimming and diving team has been showing up to Redhawks basketball games in nothing but Speedos, caps and goggles in one of the most unique home-court advantages imaginable.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38493191\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/GettyImages-2258667652.jpg\" alt=\"Miami (OH) coach Travis Steele during a basketball game.\" class=\"wp-image-38493191\"  \/>Head coach Travis Steele of the Miami (Ohio) RedHawks looks on before the game against the UMass Minutemen at Millett Hall on January 27, 2026 in Oxford, Ohio. Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>With his team on the cusp of history, Steele gave his word to return the favor in front of America in mid-March.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The unofficial fan club started showing up to games on Jan. 27 during a close win over UMass.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Steele was surprised at the scene but was happy with the school spirit.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI told them after the game, obviously, I really appreciated them doing what they were doing,\u201d he said of the Miami athletes. \u201cI told them we would return the favor and show up to one of their meets. We weren\u2019t going to wear the Speedos, though.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38493189\" width=\"590\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/crop-38493184_497b8a.jpg\" alt=\"Miami (OH) head coach Travis Steele reacts during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against UMass, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, in Oxford, Ohio.\" class=\"wp-image-38493189\"  \/>Miami (Ohio) head coach Travis Steele reacts during the first half of an NCAA college basketball game against UMass, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2026, in Oxford, Ohio. AP<\/p>\n<p>The Redhawks are the last undefeated team in men\u2019s college basketball and have already set a MAC record for the best start to a season for a men\u2019s basketball team.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Last month, Miami finally earned a spot in the AP top 25 and is now sitting at No. 23.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the first time the program has been ranked since the 1998-99 season.<\/p>\n<p>If they get there, the Redhawks will be making their first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami of Ohio head coach Travis Steele has a big promise if his team goes undefeated this season.\u00a0&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":155758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8294,33737,123,125,124,20476,110],"class_list":{"0":"post-155757","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-college-basketball","9":"tag-march-madness","10":"tag-miami","11":"tag-miami-headlines","12":"tag-miami-news","13":"tag-miami-university","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155757","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=155757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/155758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}