{"id":231716,"date":"2026-04-14T20:04:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231716\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T20:04:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T20:04:26","slug":"copeland-joins-miami-mens-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/231716\/","title":{"rendered":"Copeland Joins Miami Men\u2019s Basketball"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OXFORD, Ohio\u00a0\u2013 Miami University head men&#8217;s basketball coach\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\/coaches\/travis-steele\/597\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Travis Steele<\/a>\u00a0announced the addition of Preston Copeland to his program for the 2026-27 season. Copeland signs with the Red and White after completing one season at Ball State.\u00a0<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Preston Copeland\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/PRESTONCOPELAND.jpeg\" style=\"display: inline-block;\" width=\"800\"\/><br \/>\nPRESTON COPELAND, 6&#8217;9, 215, Forward, Clayton, N.C.\/Combine Academy\/Ball State University<\/p>\n<p>PRIOR TO MIAMI:<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\tCompeted in 30 games and made 24 starts during his freshman season with Ball State, where he averaged 4.6 points, 4.4 rebounds, 0.7 blocks, 0.5 steals and 0.3 assists&#13;<br \/>\n\tScored a career-high 18 points vs. Earlham\u00a0on Dec. 29, 2025&#13;<br \/>\n\tTotaled a career-best 16 rebounds against Le Moyne on Nov. 30, 2025&#13;<br \/>\n\tRated as a three-star recruit by 247sports.com out of Combine Academy in Charlotte&#13;<br \/>\n\tNo. 65 power forward in his high school class and No. 19 North Carolina prospect according to 247sports&#13;<br \/>\n\tAveraged 16.3 points and 8.0 rebounds per game as a high school junior&#13;<br \/>\n\tPlayed football while being an honor roll student in high school&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio\u00a0\u2013 Miami University head men&#8217;s basketball coach\u00a0Travis Steele\u00a0announced the addition of Preston Copeland to his program for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231717,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-231716","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\/231716","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=231716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231716\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}