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Preseason KenPom Rankings Not Kind to Miami

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Trinton Breeze

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The numbers aren’t showing much love for the Miami Hurricanes heading into the 2025–26 season.

In Ken Pomeroy’s preseason rankings, Miami landed at No. 76 in the country, well outside the top 50. That’s a drop from recent years when the Hurricanes opened inside the top 60 after back-to-back NCAA Tournament runs and a Final Four trip in 2023.

KenPom’s system looks at things like returning players, offense, and defense stats, and team history. It gives Miami a +10.89 adjusted efficiency...

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Trinton Breeze said:
The numbers aren’t showing much love for the Miami Hurricanes heading into the 2025–26 season.

In Ken Pomeroy’s preseason rankings, Miami landed at No. 76 in the country, well outside the top 50.
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Well, as a football school, for now at least and at long last, any BBall success will be gravy. In a way the lowered expectations are inspiring. Go Canes!
 
AtlAtty said:
When are a completely new team with a 1st time head coach. Any ranking of UM basketball is 100% speculation.
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Do we have a "go to" player on this squad? The player who wants and needs the ball with us down one, as the clock is running out? A Wong type. Time will tell.

Will we have a leader on offense who can get us 18-20 ppg. Or will it be more modest numbers, spread around in an 'offense by committee' type approach?

I worry whether we can score enough, and at a pace that'll keep us in games.

I expect much better defense, and improved rebounding at both ends of the court. That will be nice to see for a change and keep us in games.
 
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hotshot said:
Do we have a "go to" player on this squad? The player who wants and needs the ball with us down one, as the clock is running out? A Wong type. Time will tell.

Will we have a leader on offense who can get us 18-20 ppg. Or will it be more modest numbers, spread around in an 'offense by committee' type approach?

I worry whether we can score enough, and at a pace that'll keep us in games.

I expect much better defense, and improved rebounding at both ends of the court. That will be nice to see for a change and keep us in games.
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Great observations and questions. Donaldson should be a guy who will take shots late in the clock/game as he was at Auburn and Michigan. But he isn’t a prolific scorer.

Honestly, I don’t know what else to expect from the players or coach
 
AtlAtty said:
Great observations and questions. Donaldson should be a guy who will take shots late in the clock/game as he was at Auburn and Michigan. But he isn’t a prolific scorer.

Honestly, I don’t know what else to expect from the players or coach
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The "scorers" that were recruited (Donaldson and Reneau for two) had pretty modest scoring averages. No one really stands out in that regards.

In today's three point-oriented game, need that outside threat or the defense will just pack it in and choke your inside game off. Need a Jack McClinton to emerge as was the case in 2006. Maybe Tre is THAT guy.
 
hotshot said:
The "scorers" that were recruited (Donaldson and Reneau for two) had pretty modest scoring averages. No one really stands out in that regards.

In today's three point-oriented game, need that outside threat or the defense will just pack it in and choke your inside game off. Need a Jack McClinton to emerge as was the case in 2006. Maybe Tre is THAT guy.
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I liked Tre at Auburn and he was really good in Michigan’s run last season, so I was shocked he did not return to that U of M.
But he would go through long stretches of the game without scoring, and then explode for 10 points in the last 3 minutes of a close game.
 
When has KenPom, Sagarin, etc. ever gotten us right.

I mean, in our FF and Elite 8 years, they had us outside the top 60
 
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