Here is a list of everybody Miami (OH) TRIED to schedule in men's basketball this season

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As you’re probably aware, the Miami Redhawks of the mighty MAC are the lone undefeated team in D1 Men’s basketball. At 30-0, Miami managed to somehow complete their entire regular season schedule without a loss.

But while the Redhawks are very likely to make the NCAA Tournament even if they lose in the MAC Tournament, their resume has plenty of detractors. As of Wednesday evening, Miami is only 89th in KenPom, 53rd in NET, and has at least one (biased, but still) national voice suggesting they shouldn’t be in the NCAAs at all.

Part of the problem is that Miami didn’t play an exceptionally difficult out-of-conference schedule. Miami didn’t play a single game against “P4” or Big East opponents. In fact, they played more opponents outside D-1 (three) than they did against schools ranked in the top 160 of KenPom (1). Their best win beyond MAC play was probably Wright State.

No disrespect to the Raiders, a fine Horizon League basketball team this year. But for a team that would like a single-digit seed in the tournament, you’d want to see some better wins.

Now, it would be one thing if Miami went out of its way to not play anybody this season. But that isn’t true.

Miami AD David Sayler told On3 yesterday:

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Miami’s schedule is ranked No. 282, per KenPom. Sayler told On3 that the RedHawks have had trouble scheduling games against power conference opponents. In his rebuttal to Pearl on X, the athletic director accused Pearl of pushing Auburn’s NCAA tournament hopes at Miami’s expense.

“If you look at some of my social media, people laugh at me, but I’ve been using some Yoda quotes lately,” he said. “We’re trying to fight the evil empire here. The system is set up for the power conference schools at the start of the year. They can set their schedules. They can play all home games, maybe a neutral site game, but they don’t have to go on the road, and we do. And then at the end, when we don’t have a lot of big games, everyone says, ‘Well, you didn’t play enough big games.’ Well, nobody would play us. So it’s like this double-edged sword. You can’t win either way.

He’s right. And I have the receipts to prove it.

I filed an Open Records Request to see every email that Miami sent to other programs this offseason about trying to schedule games. The university sent me more than 20 emails, including many high-level P4 schools.

Here’s a list of the teams Miami tried to play this season:

1) Pittsburgh (NET Rating: 109, KenPom: 100)

Emails obtained by Extra Points show that Miami (OH) basketball reached out on 6/2/25, trying to schedule a guarantee game at Pitt on Dec 7th. No record of any response by Pitt was included in our FOIA.