{"id":200057,"date":"2026-03-21T04:31:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:31:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200057\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T04:31:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T04:31:17","slug":"everything-miami-basketball-hc-travis-steele-said-following-loss-against-tennessee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200057\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything Miami Basketball HC Travis Steele Said Following Loss Against Tennessee"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\"\"\"\"<\/a>Photo via Miami (Ohio) athletics<\/p>\n

PHILADELPHIA \u2014\u00a0Tennessee basketball ended Miami (Ohio)\u2019s historic season Friday evening, knocking off the RedHawks\u2019 78-56. Miami came out hot offensively but Tennessee locked them down from there, coasting to the victory.<\/p>\n

Following the game, Miami head coach Travis Steele discussed his team\u2019s legacy, Ja\u2019Kobi Gillespie\u2019s big performance and much more. Here\u2019s everything Steele said.<\/a><\/p>\n

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Opening statement<\/p>\n

\u201cCongratulations, to Tennessee. They were very, very physical with us with our offense. They were super, super physical on drives and cuts and just couldn\u2019t get loose. I know we scored a little bit there at the very beginning of the game, but, man, it was a physical game. On the other end, Gillespie was unbelievable. We got deep threes, NBA-range threes, and he\u2019s got that type of range and make five, I think, in the first half, but he\u2019s hard because you have to keep him out of the point. They send him off a lot of off screens and Coach Barnes puts him in a really good position to be successful. 29 points and nine assists, he dominated the game.<\/p>\n

Congrats to them, but that doesn\u2019t take anything away from our team. Our team has had a heck of a journey. The quality of human beings that we have in our locker room, man, we\u2019re everything that\u2019s right about college athletics in my opinion. These two are a big part of that, they spearhead it, but I couldn\u2019t be more proud of our group.\u201d<\/p>\n

On building a resume<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say a little bit like what Pete mentioned, I think a lot of it is analytically driven. I think there feeds to be adjustments made to a lot of these, whatever you want to say, the analytical data or whatever, the Kenpom roadways or the predictive numbers, the net specific needs to be adjusted, right? I think you can always make things better. I don\u2019t know when\u2019s the last time they made an adjustment to it or if they have. Fans want to see those games. Our fans do, their fans do. They want to see brands. It went viral.<\/p>\n

I think Jonathan Holmes e-mails our staff. He\u2019s in charge of scheduling, most scheduling is done over the phone. It\u2019s frustrating. We didn\u2019t finish our schedule until October, mid-October. We didn\u2019t play until two weeks later, which is ridiculous. Especially in today\u2019s college landscape, you want to stay away from quad two and quad three games. It does nothing for you. Nothing. It\u2019s almost like a lose\/lose situation if you\u2019re them, so I get it.<\/p>\n

I think we may have moved up to a quad two, which hopefully, will help us, but if you\u2019re in that quad three range, man, good look, you have no choice.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Rick Barnes saying Miami (Ohio) could win games in the SEC<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t get a chance to play in the SEC. Give Tennessee credit.\u201d<\/p>\n

On how much this season has meant to him<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m obviously very proud of our guys. I\u2019m happy they got to experience this. The rebuild, they saw it from the ground young. One senior, Eli, he was a walk on for us to all of a sudden we went 31-0 in the regular season this year. Proud that they were able to experience all that, but I think the thing that gets lost a lot of times is everybody sees the result but the journey, the day-to-day is even better. I couldn\u2019t be more proud of the guys that we have in our locker room, the way that we do things. It\u2019s not the result but it\u2019s the way we do things. How we do it I think is what makes me even more proud.\u201d<\/p>\n

On finding a way to sustain the success from this season<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re hopeful that your culture, the development of each individual player winning, getting a great education will help us keep, retain our players. Not that we\u2019re going to bat a thousand for baseball terminology, but we did pretty well last year. We kept six of our top nine guys from last year\u2019s team. We won 25 games last year, record in team history. Your retention allows you to keep your culture so you\u2019re not constantly starting a new culture every single year. We tried to build something that was sustainable. Wile everybody else was zigging, we just zagged. Everyone was recruiting from portal only, get old stay old. We\u2019re not afraid to have high school guys. We\u2019re confident we can develop our young men into really good basketball players. Retention is at a premium in order to create sustained success.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the crowd support Miami has had in the tournament<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it shows that it can be done anywhere. Just being honest. From where \u2014 and listen, Miami has a very, very proud tradition. All-time winning-est program in MAC history. Ron Harper, Wally Szczerbiak, Wayne Embry, Ira Newble. All those guys who came back for games this year which we\u2019re appreciative of. But there\u2019d been that gap for about 20 years or so where we didn\u2019t have the success that we were used to and we\u2019re back now and it just shows that it can be done anywhere. You just got to invest in the administration from coachers to players, all have to pull in the same direction, have the same vision, which I think is very, very important.<\/p>\n

It does make me feel proud where we were, but we\u2019re not done yet, though. We\u2019re not where we were, but we\u2019re not where we want to be yet, either. My goal is to get this thing to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament. Fell short of that goal this year, but we\u2019ll be back. I\u2019m very, very, very confident of that.\u201d<\/p>\n

On what will most stand out about Pete Suder<\/p>\n

\u201cProbably can\u2019t say enough good things about Pete. Ultimate winner. He has zero agenda. Zero. He doesn\u2019t care about himself. He doesn\u2019t care whether he scores or not. He\u2019ll have a game where he scores 30, and the next game he has 6, and he doesn\u2019t care, Which is unbelievable.<\/p>\n

In today\u2019s landscape, a lot of these dudes are just collecting hollow stats out there to get more money. He only plays to win. He leaves it all out there every day, that\u2019s in practice, that\u2019s in the spring, playing three-on-three, one-on-one, five-on-five. He\u2019s the ultimate winner, man.<\/p>\n

Leadership, just everything you want in a young man that guy is. He\u2019s a great basketball player, skilled and all that but his intangibles are ridiculous. Best I have ever been around.\u201d<\/p>\n

On the legacy of this team<\/p>\n

\u201cI would say connected, unselfish. Those guys mentioned it as well. They truly play for one another. They care about each other. Deep relationships. Not surfacey. Just paying to, I\u2019m going to buy this guy and buy this guy from the portal, and put the most talent out there on the floor. That\u2019s not what we\u2019re going to do. I think they\u2019ve only strengthened our culture just with that connectivity and it just shows how successful you can be when you have it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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