Hurricanes News
The Miami Hurricanes basketball program has a long history pride. For any Hurricane fan, green and orange are much more than basic colors on the color wheel. They’re more like a family crest of old; symbolizing the allegiance the fans hold towards their current, or former, school. Cane pride runs deep in Miami. This upcoming season (2008-2009), however, the Canes are looking to make a huge splash in the figurative ocean of NCAA basketball. Under the command of fifth-year head coach Frank Haith, the Miami Hurricanes basketball program might have its strongest squad ever in school history.
more After a morally uplifting previous season, in which they went 23-11 and nearly reached Sweet Sixteen status, the Canes hope to stand on the shoulders of this previous season and reach greater fame. At the start of summer, the Miami Hurricanes were ranked 8 out of the top 25 college basketball teams in the nation, as polled by the Associated Press. With four of its five starters returning this year, so do the overwhelming statistics: most notably a high-conversion free throw percentage, as well as surgical three-point accuracy. But it is also the newcomers that will bring a strong balance to overall team quality. With two incoming freshman, DeQuan Jones and Reggie Johnson, as well as a red-shirted freshman Julian Gamble and transfer student Cyrus McGowan, the Canes will have a great advantage in size and intensity.
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