Podcast: 10 takeaways from Miami’s back-to-back top-25 wins. And reasons for hoops hope
It’s suddenly time to be hopeful for the Miami Hurricanes.
After getting off to its worst start in more than two decades, the Miami football team has strung together back-to-back wins against top-25 opponents to surge into the Atlantic Coast Conference’s Coastal division race. The Hurricanes men’s basketball team, meanwhile, is getting ready to kick off the regular season Tuesday and expects to contend for the NCAA Tournament after missing out in each of the last two years.
It all means it’s time for a two-part episode of the Eye on the U podcast. In the first segment, David Wilson and Susan Miller Degnan, the Miami Herald’s Hurricanes football beat writer, run through 10 takeaways from Miami’s impressive finish to October. In the second half, Wilson and Michelle Kaufman, the Herald’s Hurricanes basketball beat writer, preview college basketball season and give reasons for optimism about Miami’s deepest team in years.
For football, our takeaways range from the eye-popping play of quarterback Tyler Van Dyke to the quiet excellence of cornerback Tyrique Stevenson. They took a circuitous path to get there, but the Hurricanes (4-4, 2-2) are finally looking like the team everyone expected them to be in the preseason.
For basketball, hope hinges on Isaiah Wong, Kameron McGusty, Charlie Moore and all the other guards Miami will be rolling out this year. There are some obvious question marks in the front court, but the backcourt is potentially stacked and Wong gives them a legitimate NBA talent to lead the way.
As always, please continue to rate, review and subscribe. There’s still a month left in football season and the Hurricanes are poised to play some really important games down the stretch, plus basketball season will give us even more to talk about — especially if Miami can get back into the Tournament conversation.
