Database<\/a>. The men\u2019s basketball team\u2019s $2.9 million budget trailed that of the men\u2019s hockey team. The program was also not a money-maker, bringing in just $226,000 in ticket sales\u2014less than men\u2019s hockey ($448,000) and not enough to offset game-day expenses ($280,000).<\/p>\n\n\tMillett Hall, however, has seen a surge in basketball attendance as the team has yet to lose this year. The RedHawks averaged 1,860 fans in their first 10 home games this season, but attendance has eclipsed 10,000 in each of the past three games as they get closer to history. (The official capacity of the arena is listed at 9,200.)<\/p>\n
\n\tOnly five times since 1976-77 has a school entered March Madness without a loss. Four of those five teams advanced to the Final Four, but Miami is unlikely to have that level of success. The RedHawks, ranked No. 82 in Ken Pomeroy\u2019s national rankings, have played three Division III schools and no power conference opponents.<\/p>\n
\n\tMiami plays a road game at the 10-18 Western Michigan Broncos Friday night, with their last home game of the regular season next Tuesday against Toledo. The RedHawks close the regular season at Ohio on March 6, then head to the Mid-American Conference tournament from March 11-14. The NCAA\u2019s Selection Sunday is on March 15, and the men\u2019s tournament starts two days later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami (Ohio) University board of trustees is scheduled to vote Friday on a proposed $281 million sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[8294,111,72577,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-171571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-data-viz","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171571","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=171571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}