{"id":635871,"date":"2026-03-03T04:41:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:41:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635871\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T04:41:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T04:41:39","slug":"miami-ohio-ad-blasts-bruce-pearls-awful-disrespect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/635871\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami (Ohio) AD blasts Bruce Pearl’s ‘awful’ disrespect"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami (Ohio) athletic director David Sayler was tired of seeing his undefeated men\u2019s basketball team being dragged down by Bruce Pearl.<\/p>\n

Sayler blasted the TNT Sports analyst in on X Monday, after Pearl took his criticism of the RedHawks further during an interview on Fox\u2019s \u201cGet Up Barstool.\u201d <\/p>\n

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy threw out the idea that Miami could finish in the top half of a \u201cbig boy\u201d conference. <\/p>\n

Pearl adamantly said, \u201cNo way.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"AuburnBruce Pearl is pictured in October 2023. AP<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re not built for the grind of a Big Ten or even a Big East. In the Big East conference this year, they\u2019d finish in the lower half,\u201d Pearl said. \u201cThey may not finish last, but I\u2019m not so sure.\u201d<\/p>\n

The former Auburn coach<\/a>, who mistakenly called fifth-place DePaul a last-place team in the Big East, stated he believed the No. 19 RedHawks could have \u201cone shining moment\u201d and beat a No. 9 or No. 7 team in the first round of the NCAA Tournament, but doubled down on the grind of major conference play.<\/p>\n

DePaul actually lost to Buffalo, currently sitting fifth in the MAC, earlier this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sayler clearly heard enough after Pearl, who also said last week on TNT that the RedHawks should not get an at-large bid to March Madness if they do not win the MAC Tournament. <\/p>\n

The AD also called out potential biases Pearl could have in this argument with his son, Steven Pearl, in his first season coaching bubble-team Auburn, for whom his dad is still employed as an ambassador. <\/p>\n

\u201c@coachbrucepearl u are flat out wrong about @MiamiOH_BBall when u say we would finish last in the Big East,\u201d Sayler wrote. \u201cThe disrespect is awful and u should not be near a TV studio covering this sport when u show your true colors! Even slipped in a \u201cwe\u201d when talking about Auburn, nice work!\u201d<\/p>\n

Miami is the only undefeated team left<\/a> in Division I men\u2019s basketball at 29-0 with three conference games left to complete a perfect regular season. <\/p>\n

It is just No. 52 in the NET Ranking and its best win is a Quad 2 victory over Akron.<\/p>\n

\"TwoJustin Kirby attempts a shot during a Miami (Ohio) game Feb. 13. Imagn Images<\/p>\n

Auburn, which Pearl coached for 11 seasons and reached two Final Fours with, is 15-14 and just 6-10 in SEC play. <\/p>\n

The Tigers are, however, 38th in the NET Ranking and own a combined seven Quad 1 and 2 victories \u2014 five of them in Quad 1 \u2014 and no quad four losses. <\/p>\n

They have also lost 10 straight games despite the solid resume.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we\u2019re selecting the 68 best teams, then Miami is going to have to win their tournament to qualify as a champion,\u201d Bruce Pearl said on TNT on Saturday. \u201cBecause, as an at-large, they are not one of the best teams in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami (Ohio) athletic director David Sayler was tired of seeing his undefeated men\u2019s basketball team being dragged down…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[1398,7,1058,217,7456,24685,231,772,1544,66,3647],"class_list":["post-635871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-auburn-tigers","tag-basketball","tag-bruce-pearl","tag-college-basketball","tag-march-madness","tag-miami-university","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab","tag-sports","tag-sports-media"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116163411699050886","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}