The No. 22-ranked Miami (Ohio) RedHawks stay one of the crucial unbelievable and in addition confounding tales within the 2025-26 males’s basketball season. They continued their quest for an ideal common season on Friday night time with an emphatic 91-77 win over Bowling Green, bettering their file to 27-0 on the season.
They continue to be the one unbeaten workforce in males’s faculty basketball and are simply 4 video games away from finishing an ideal common season.
It’s spectacular.
It’s also maddening to attempt to consider due to the schedule they’ve performed and the extent of competitors they’ve confronted.
No person is aware of what to do with this Miami (Ohio) workforce
On one hand, 27 consecutive wins is a fairly robust assertion by any workforce. And whereas it has been ok to get the RedHawks into the top-25, they aren’t actually making a giant transfer up the rankings and nonetheless stay exterior of the top-20. That’s nearly exceptional for an unbeaten workforce this late within the season.
Often, a workforce in that place is a top-10 workforce at worst, and most certainly within the top-five. In all probability even the No. 1 workforce within the nation.
The issue for the RedHawks is totally with the schedule and stage of competitors.
The MAC will not be actually a powerhouse faculty basketball convention and is usually a one-bid league within the NCAA Event.
They’ve additionally not performed a single ranked workforce all season, which is exceptional even for the MAC. Each different workforce within the MAC besides Central Michigan and Western Michigan has performed at the least one AP High-25 opponent this season. A number of have performed a number of ranked groups.
The shortage of high-level opponents goes to trigger skepticism in the case of how good this workforce truly is.
All of that’s truthful.
However it’s also truthful to level out that a variety of groups have performed softer schedules this season, in mid-major conferences (or decrease), with out many ranked opponents.
And no one is doing what this RedHawks workforce has performed. No person else is undefeated. Each different workforce within the MAC has at the least 5 losses total. Each workforce exterior of Miami (Ohio) and Akron has at the least three losses throughout the convention.
If it had been so simple as the schedule. Extra groups could be nearer to them. No person is.
Only 20 teams in men’s college basketball history have ever entered the tournament undefeated, and solely three of them have performed it with at the least 30 wins. That’s what Miami (Ohio) could be doing if it runs the desk over the following 4 video games after which rolls by the MAC convention match.
Whatever the stage of competitors, that is uncommon.
There may be additionally going to be a extremely attention-grabbing layer of stress that they need to take care of the remainder of the way in which.
Not simply because it pertains to their quest for an ideal season, but additionally as a result of they’ve nearly no margin for error.
Given the dearth of at-large bids that come out of the MAC, that is doubtless a hold profitable or go house state of affairs. In the event that they slip up within the MAC match, or lose a recreation earlier than then after which fail to win the match, that’s most likely going to maintain them out no matter what their file is. Resume issues with the choice committee, and something in need of a convention championship may not stand out sufficient given the schedule.
It’s a fascinating workforce having an enchanting season. It’s also a workforce price watching the remainder of the way in which, simply to see if they’ll maintain this.
