THUD!
That sound you heard was the noise created by the University of Miami’s basketball team that recently came crashing back to earth.
You see the Hurricanes were flying high after posting their best early season record in fifty, that’s right 5-0, years. Miami had waltzed through the first 16 games of the season with a 15-1 record and had reached #23 in the AP poll before reality set in.
By reality I mean playing against some real competition in the ACC. Since running up the score on weak teams like Stetson, the Canes have dropped off the radar in their conference. Miami now stands at 1-4 in the ACC, which is good enough to earn them last place.
If you want to know just how bad things have turned for the Hurricanes then just check these stats on how they stack up against ACC competition:
The Hurricanes are last in home attendance in the conference as well. Seems all of a sudden nobody wants to watch a train wreck. Imagine that?
The only bright spot for Miami is the play of Senior forward Dwayne Collins. Collins is averaging 12.4/ppg and 8.2 rebounds/pg. Collins will play TE for the UM football team next year so all is not lost. Just kidding, that could never happen (Note: see Jimmy Graham who will be a NFL draft pick)!
So now once again as the ACC basketball season moves into the homestretch and the ACC games continue, Hurricane fans have little to look forward to other than the warm glow of the cheerleaders.
Which, if you haven’t seem them lately, are worth a look.
I’m just sayin’…
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Tough topic to write on. At least UNC is out of the top 25, so clearly our hoops program must be as good as theirs!
Playa…wad up? Nice move big dog. Now tell me about UM basketball? Good or bad?
JCane…who would have thought that UNC would be 1-3 in the ACC? Not me!
They need to turn it up a notch…….and quick.
Whats up 86, just getting home and stumbled onto Raycom..lol..Im so disapointed with the basketball team. That BC game hurt. Your right. They have no offense, just run around and get open for 3. But i’d love a upset win over UNC! That and beating FSU would put on smile on my face!
Team ain’t that good. From talent to coaching.
I agree with Rashad about the BC game. Canes were up by double digits, and were doing so by getting it down low to Collins along with being on fire from behind the Arc(think they were 5/6 in the first half). Then all the sudden they didn’t run their offense they started bricking 3’s then a complete collapse insued. They were pretty much outplayed in all aspects of the game in the final 10+ mins. As frustrating as it was to watch, you have to realize that they have some young players and will improve as the season progresses. D. Scott does show some flashes and that is reason to be excited for the future.
Oh yea…and you got to love how the announcers for the BC/Mia game at the end commented a couple times on how- if you didn’t believe it before, you better now…..BC is back!!!! I mean yea they had a nice comeback against the Canes, but it’s not like they beat Uconn’s Lady huskies or anything.
Tom nice article…this team doesn’t play hard for the entire 40 min
We have to much talent to have these kind of results
Whats going on with his substitution pattern? Haith has to learn what to do and who to go to when a team is making a run against us.
We have time to turn this around but the clock is ticking on our season, lets string a couple of wins together and go from there
Come on Coach Haith its been a week so this team better come out focused and ready to make a statement and walk away with a big W
Tom, I’d stick to water polo, vollyball, even extreme basket weaving before talking basketball at the U.
If they would stop acting the part of a player and start exicuting the part… Maybe thing will change.
but then again… maybe means maybe not
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Would love to see the Canes be respectable on the hardwood but I think we are still a year away from that.
I thought that record was sketchy in the first place. No Faith in Haith as a tactician or a developer of talent. He better find some assistants who can develop the talent he’s bringing in otherwise he’ll be looking for work in a few years.
I thought we had the chemistry coming into ACC play, but the record shows otherwise. Time for another beer
Go Canes!