Two weeks ago, the Miami Hurricanes Men\u2019s Basketball team was teetering on the bubble. But four straight wins later, two against safe NCAA Tournament teams and another against a bubble team, and the Hurricanes are rising up the seed lines down the stretch of this season.<\/p>\n
The last bracketology rankings from Monday (before the VT win) and Wednesday (after the VT win) this week have the \u2018Canes as either an 8 or a 9 seed:<\/p>\n
Miami has five games left in the regular season, and it\u2019s tough to fathom the Hurricanes being left out of the NCAA Tournament short of a complete 0-5 collapse. The remaining games on the regular season schedule are:<\/p>\n
Virginia, SMU, and Louisville are opportunities for Miami to improve its (4-3) Quad 1 record. Losing isn\u2019t good, but losses to this group shouldn\u2019t jeopardize Miami\u2019s invitation to March Madness.<\/p>\n
Florida State and Boston College are respectively Quad 2 and 3 games at the moment, though FSU has been surging and is 6-2 in its last 8 games, beginning with the upset of Miami in Coral Gables. Should the Seminoles improve their Net Ranking to 75 or higher, next Tuesday\u2019s matchup becomes a Quad 1 game (and Miami\u2019s home loss softens to a Quad 2 loss instead of Quad 3).<\/p>\n
Miami has to figure a 3-2 finish should cement the \u2018Canes as an 8 or 9 seed consistent with current projections. That seeding could further improve if Miami can finish better than that, especially if the \u2018Canes tack on one more wins in the ACC Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two weeks ago, the Miami Hurricanes Men\u2019s Basketball team was teetering on the bubble. But four straight wins…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162489,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[37709,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-162488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-basketball-news","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162488","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=162488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162488\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}