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Thursday, December 3, 2009
RedHawks must keep heads up, Hayes says
By Pete Conrad
The Miami basketball team’s 2-5 record is the slowest start through seven games for the RedHawks since the 2001-02 season, when Miami also started 2-5 and finished the season 13-18.
It isn’t the kind of start the RedHawks imagined for themselves. Not with the return of senior point guard and preseason All-MAC first teamer Kenny Hayes, not with the athletic abilities of Antonio Ballard and Nick Winbush and Rodney Haddix II, not with senior Adam Fletcher coming off a solid season at center.
The main worry now is a free fall. Miami would like to start the Mid-American Conference season somewhere close to .500, and that won’t be easy. Of the RedHawks’ next six non-league games before the MAC opener on Jan. 9, four are away from home.
And none of those games looks like a sure thing. Temple, Cincinnati, Wright State, Milwaukee, Xavier and Colorado. The schedule isn’t getting much easier.
“We’ve got to continue to get better,” Hayes said. “We can’t keep our heads down.
“These next couple of days at practice are important for us,” he stressed. “The best thing we can do is keep our heads up and stay focused.”
