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As one of these win streaks must end tonight, we suspect it might be Toledo's. Miami-O has been playing at an accelerated pace since before New Year's. It's now wins in four straight 12 of 13 for the RedHawks after beating well-regarded Troy in Saturday's Sun Belt-MAC Challenge where Miami got 15 points off the bench from sixth-man deluxe Evan Ipsaro. Though Saturday was not a great shooting day, the RedHawks did hit the weekend the nation's only team in the top ten in both FG % (49.2%) and 3-point accuracy (39.3%). Meanwhile, Toledo enters Millett Hall having won five straight, though in the toughest MAC road challenge to date the Rockets were bombed 102-75 at Akron on January 25. Play Miami-Ohio.
Our model has Miami by six for the only scheduled meeting vs. Toledo -- they are second and third in the MAC and both can still catch first-place Akron. The RedHawks have won 11 in a row at home (two shy of school record) and rank fifth nationally in effective field goal percentage (.578), ninth in three-point percentage (.393), 14th in field goal percentage (.492), 17th in threes per game (10.3) and 29th in scoring offense (81.4). There have been four games this year where six different RedHawks scored in double figures. They actually scored 141 points against a lower-level school. KenPom ranks Miami 42 spots better. The NCAA NET rankings have an even bigger discrepancy.