Here Is A List Of Everyone Miami (OH) TRIED To Schedule In Men's Basketball This Season

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As you are most likely conscious, the Miami Redhawks of the mighty MAC are the lone undefeated workforce in D1 Men’s basketball. At 30-0, Miami managed to by some means full their total common season schedule to this point with out a loss.

Part of the issue is that Miami did not play an exceptionally tough out-of-conference schedule. Miami did not play a single recreation in opposition to “P4” or Big East opponents. In reality, they performed extra opponents exterior D-1 (three) than they did in opposition to colleges ranked in the highest 160 of KenPom (1). Their finest win past MAC play was most likely Wright State.

No disrespect to the Raiders, a high quality Horizon League basketball workforce this yr. But for a workforce that would love a single-digit seed in the match, you’d need to see some higher wins.

Now, it will be one factor if Miami went out of its manner to not play anybody this season. But that is not true.

Miami AD David Sayler advised On3 yesterday:

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Miami’s schedule is ranked No. 282, per KenPom. Sayler advised On3 that the RedHawks have had hassle scheduling video games in opposition to energy convention opponents. In his rebuttal to Pearl on X, the athletic director accused Pearl of pushing Auburn’s NCAA match hopes at Miami’s expense.

“If you look at some of my social media, people laugh at me, but I’ve been using some Yoda quotes lately,” he mentioned. “We’re trying to fight the evil empire here. The system is set up for the power schools conference at the start of the year. They can set their schedules. They can play all home games, maybe a neutral site game, but they don’t have to go on the road, and we do. And then at the end, when we don’t have a lot of big games, everyone says, ‘Well, you didn’t play enough big games.’ Well, nobody would play us. So it’s like this double-edged sword. You can’t win either way.

He’s right. And I have the receipts to prove it.

I filed an Open Records Request to see every email that Miami sent to other programs this offseason about trying to schedule games. The university sent me more than 20 emails, including many high-level P4 schools.

Here’s a list of the teams Miami tried to play this season:

1) Pittsburgh (NET Rating: 109, KenPom: 100)

Emails obtained by Extra Points show that Miami (OH) basketball reached out on 6/2/25, trying to schedule a guarantee game at Pitt on Dec 7th. No record of any response by Pitt was included in our FOIA.