Optimist, I have said this a number of times and it is proven to be true… In the college game now you have to be able to make threes and defend threes. If you can’t, you won’t be elite. If my memory is correct, the bobcats are in the 300 area of both making and defending the three. Not a good situation.
Men of Steele overcoming the odds
Though Miami's overall strength of schedule is woeful (339th out of 365 teams), the slope of difficulty in getting to 20-0 is reflected in its Strength of Record ranking (21) and its Wins Above Bubble mark (29th). Those are objective indicators of how well Miami has done against its schedule vs. what the average bubble team would've done to this point.
In SOR, the RedHawks rank better than the likes of 16-4 Clemson, 14-4 Villanova, 14-5 St. John's, 13-5 Louisville, 12-6 Tennessee and many more.
And this isn't the richest program in the MAC, either. Not by a long shot. Miami is somewhere in the middle of the pack of the league from an NIL perspective, well behind the likes of UMass, in addition to in-state peers Akron, Kent State and Ohio. Which makes the most surprising thing about this run all the more special: We have a 20-0 mid-major team in 2026.
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