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THE MIAMI HURRICANE Pull off thiss outer section for a preview of the upcoming basketball season.
The road to March Madness Guard play essential to success BY JUSTIN ANTWEIL SPORTS EDITOR
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t’s time for the University of Miami to be known for more than its college baseball and college football prowess. Basketball shouldn’t just be relevant in South Florida because of the Miami Heat’s big three; Coral Gables has a plethora of talent all on its own. The University of Miami men’s and women’s basketball teams are poised and destined to qualify for the NCAA Tournament once March rolls around. Both squads finished last in the ACC regular season last year, but each made a great run at the end of the year and hope to carry that momentum into the 2010-11 campaign. The women upset top 25 opponents like Florida State and North Carolina last year, and came close in a lot of contests. The Canes lost seven games by five points or less last season, and only lost two games by double digits. The core of the team got its feet wet and is now ready to swim in the deep end of the pool. Miami won five games in the WNIT and had to travel across the country in less than one week to do it. They had stops in Rhode Island, Michigan, Illinois and California.
POWER: Freshman power forward Raphael Akpejiori goes for a dunk against the Barry Bucs.
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