The Cincinnati Enquirer Miami's Julius Johnson is pressured by Dayton's Sean Finn. Miami would love the same arrangement with Cincinnati. But the Bearcats, citing financial reasons, ended their Miami series in 1993. But no talks are going on right now. UC doesn't want to come to Oxford.
Money is a factor in a lot of decisions in college athletics.
They're 10-1 and are rated higher than 25 teams going to bowls. Miami went 10-1 in football three years ago and also was shut out of a bowl. UC and Miami had played 137 times when their basketball rivalry was discontinued. They've met once since, in a midnight ESPN game at the Shoemaker Center in January 1997. Maturi thinks a one-shot deal like that is possible.