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Notsince1985

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Miami currently sits at 23-6. Since the program returned in 1985, Miami has never won more than 24 games in the regular season. Miami can tie or beat that record this week.

2012-2013: 24-6 (29-7 after Sweet 16)
2015-2016: 24-6 (27-8 after Sweet 16)
2022-2023: 24-6 (29-8 after Final 4)
 
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Notsince1985 said:
Miami currently sits at 23-6. Since the program returned in 1985, Miami has never won more than 24 games in the regular season. Miami can tie or beat that record this week.

2012-2013: 24-6 (29-7 after Sweet 16)
2015-2016: 24-6 (27-8 after Sweet 16)
2022-2023: 24-6 (29-8 after Final 4)
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Hard to believe we have a better/comparable record to the 22-23 team which looked so dominant at many points of that season.
 
Notsince1985 said:
I'd say the 2012-2013 team looked a lot more dominant at many points of the season than the 2022-2023 team did.
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I really felt 2022-23 was a Final 4 team and for me that was the only time I felt that way about UM. I just loved the blend of players with one of the best coaches in college basketball history. I kept thinking that if Coach L could take George mason to the final 4, he could do the same with that UM team.
I agree with you that 2012-13 was really good, especially the guards, but I felt that team had more flaws than 2022-23. In fact I really thought our only flaw in 2022-23 was guarding really big teams, of which there were not many, but there was in UConn between Sanogo and Klingan.
 
AtlAtty said:
I really felt 2022-23 was a Final 4 team and for me that was the only time I felt that way about UM. I just loved the blend of players with one of the best coaches in college basketball history. I kept thinking that if Coach L could take George mason to the final 4, he could do the same with that UM team.
I agree with you that 2012-13 was really good, especially the guards, but I felt that team had more flaws than 2022-23. In fact I really thought our only flaw in 2022-23 was guarding really big teams, of which there were not many, but there was in UConn between Sanogo and Klingan.
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I just meant the results. The 2012-2013 team won 7 of their 15 ACC wins by 13 or more and 18 of their 29 wins by 10+.
 
Wow; that is an incredible statistic. I just checked wiki and we don’t have to limit it to ‘85; winning 25 games in the regular season has never happened before.

Best regular seasons I can find are 1959-1960; Bruce Hale’s ‘Canes lost in the first round of the tournament; finished 23-4. And Tom McCann went 17-1 in 1931-1932. No postseason results on the page.

It appears no team, postseason included, won 24 games until Perry Clark in ‘01-‘02. Coach L has all 5 of the 5 times the program has won 25+ games in total.

Other 23 win teams, postseason included, Frank Haith ‘07-‘08 in a second round exit (23-11) and Hamilton in back to back years w/ a 2nd round exit and a sweet 16 appearance (23-7; 23-11) to close out the 20th century.

For twenty win or nearly that seasons:

Hart Morris went 20-7 and 19-8 as his two best seasons; mid to late 40s. Bruce Hale followed up the 23 win season with a 20-7 one. Bill Foster’s best year was 19-12 in ‘88-‘89. Perry Clark aforementioned. 20-13 and 21-15 seasons to end Frank Haith’s tenure. Coach L added three more twenty win seasons (20-13 in ‘11-‘12, 21-12 in ‘16-‘17, and 22-10 in ‘17-‘18).

Then the last three years of Rick Barry’s tenure: Hurricanes were ineligible for the postseason in ‘65, idk why.

1962–63Bruce Hale23–5NIT Quarterfinal
1963–64Bruce Hale20–7NIT first round
1964–65Bruce Hale22–4
 
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