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Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Miami-UC sign three-year deal for hoops series
Just received this press release from Miami University:
Miami University and the University of Cincinnati have signed a three-year men’s basketball contract, which has the Bearcats coming to Oxford for the 2010-11 season.
“The Bearcats are a high-profile team. For us to play them for three straight years with them coming to our court in 2010-11 is good,” said Miami University head coach Charlie Coles. “We’ve had some exciting games with Cincinnati, and some have come down to the last three or four minutes. I think this will prove to be a very exciting, challenging and fun series.”
ESPN2 is televising this year’s match-up. The game will be played at U.S. Bank Arena on Thursday, Dec. 10.
For the first time since Feb. 1, 1993, Cincinnati will play at Millett Hall for a game to take place during the 2010-11 season. The game marks the 66th time the Bearcats have visited Oxford in the all-time series. Miami holds a 34-31 edge when playing in Oxford.
Miami will go to Cincinnati for a game during the 2011-12 campaign.
“Now we are playing all the area teams, and that’s very good,” added Coles. “I believe in trying to play the teams in your area as there is a lot of local interest in the match-ups.”
Dating back to Miami’s first season of basketball in 1905-06, Miami and Cincinnati have faced 144 times with the Bearcats owning a 92-52 lead in the series.
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Miami’s defense loaded with freshmen
By Pete Conrad
If there is marked improvement from last season on a Miami defense with 10 true freshmen and redshirt freshmen on its two-deep, head coach Mike Haywood said defensive coordinator and linebackers coach Carl “Bull” Reese will be an important reason.
“The thing he’s brought is a great deal of experience,” Haywood said of Reese, who served with Haywood at LSU and Texas and saw him transform both defenses into juggernauts. “The players listen. They’re hungry for knowledge and information which they can use on the field. He’s a great teacher and a great motivator.”
Miami’s projected starting lineup for Saturday’s game against Kentucky includes two true freshmen, outside linebackers Wes Williams and Evan Harris, and one redshirt freshman, tackle Mike Johns.
Listed as second string are true freshmen Anthony Shoemaker (end), Austin Brown (tackle) and Pat Hinkel (free safety) and redshirt freshmen Will Diaz (end), Jaytee Swanson (middle linebacker), Luke Kelly (outside linebacker) and D.J. Brown (cornerback).
Two seniors who started on defense last year but who are listed as second string this week are outside linebacker Caleb Bostic, who was fifth on the team (and fourth among linebackers) with 40 total tackles in 2008, and tackle Martin Channels, who tied for second among the RedHawks with eight tackles for loss last fall.
Both, however, are likely to see ample playing time against the Wildcats.
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Women’s soccer: RedHawks ‘fitter, stronger’
By Pete Conrad
Coach Bobby Kramig is optimistic that his Miami women’s soccer team can improve on last season’s 6-12-1 record. The RedHawks are 1-1 right now and are chomping at the bit to get back to action since their last game was on Aug. 23.
“I’m real pleased with how it’s coming together.”Kramig said. “(The players) are noticeably fitter and stronger than they’ve ever been before. That will make a huge difference in terms of what we can get out of them and where our focus needs to be. Our preseason was much more productive.”
Miami was picked to finish fifth in the Mid-American Conference. Kramig said he has no idea of how the MAC will season will play out.
“The MAC is such a goofy conference,” he said. “We play Fridays, and every Saturday morning we start going through the MAC scores and say, holy cow, how did that happen?”
