UMass rallied in the second half<\/a> for an 87-83 victory in the Mid-American Conference Tournament quarterfinals.<\/p>\n\u201cIt was a little bit of shell shock. We hate to lose, and our guys put a lot into it. So does UMass,\u201d Steele said. \u201cNot a lot was said. I think sometimes you\u2019ve got to get the emotion out of you first before directing your team. So we\u2019ll do that when we get back to the hotel.\u201d<\/p>\n
Miami was the fifth team this century to go undefeated in the regular season and the first since Gonzaga in 2020-21. The RedHawks join Saint Joseph\u2019s \u2014 which lost to Xavier in the 2004 Atlantic 10 quarterfinals \u2014 as teams whose unbeaten run ended in their conference tournament.<\/p>\n
The RedHawks’ strength of schedule ranks 344th out of 365 Division I teams, according to the NCAA Evaluation Tool. So can they still make March Madness?<\/p>\n
Here’s where the experts have Miami: <\/p>\n
ESPN’s Joe Lunardi has the RedHawks as an 11 seed facing 6 seed Wisconsin in GreenvilleCBS has them as a 10 seed facing BYUFOX has the RedHawks as an 11 seed facing TennesseeUSA TODAY’s Erick Smith has Miami as an 11 seed playing in one of the First Four play-in games in Dayton<\/p>\n
The last team to go through the regular season unbeaten and not make the NCAA Tournament was Alcorn State in 1978-79. That was because the Southwest Athletic Conference was in a transition period to Division I and did not have an automatic bid. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio \u2014 After 31 games without a loss, the Miami University RedHawks fell to UMass Thursday. Now,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191352,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-191351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191351","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=191351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}