Miami (Ohio) has ‘home game’ in Dayton as First Four slate set

The First Four that opens the NCAA Tournament this week in Dayton, Ohio includes a program famous for knocking off a top seed, one team that has never won in the Big Dance, another which is approaching a 40-year NCAA Tournament win drought and one school that practically has a home game.

That latter team, Miami (Ohio), faced great scrutiny before Sunday's reveal of the brackets because the previously unbeaten RedHawks (31-1) had lost in the Mid-American Conference tournament quarterfinals and missed out on the automatic bid.