Miami Baseball returned to the top of the polls this week and spring practice concluded with some great defensive plays by freshmen but poor WR's yet again. Nate Skinner, joins us to recap Basketball season, and set up next year where expectations for Miami will be very high following this year's NCAA run and early prognostications by national experts putting the Canes in the pre-season Top 15.

The Hurricanes won an NCAA Tournament game for the first time in eight years this past week against St Mary's before falling to Texas in a great game on Sunday. We pay tribute to the 2007-08 Cane seniors Ray Hicks and Anthony King who helped the rebirth of Miami Basketball after the blight of Perry Clark as well as discuss the battle at Running Back in Spring practice: Will Shawnbrey McNeal overtake Graig Cooper? Gregg Rodes joins us to look back the NCAA Tournament for the Canes and look ahead to Canes Fest this weekend.

The Hurricanes five season NCAA Tournament drought is over. The Canes are seeded 7th in the South Region and face St Mary's this week in the first round of the big dance. Nate Skinner, a UM student whose knowledge and understanding of College Basketball is unparalleled joins host Kartik Krishnaiyer as we look back at each Miami player's season and look ahead to what Miami must do to defeat a very good St Mary's team on Friday in Little Rock.

The Hurricanes dropped a controversial overtime game to Florida State on Saturday. Now the Canes enter the ACC Tournament still likely to make the NCAAs but with little margin for error left. Join host Kartik Krishnaiyer and his guest College Basketball guru Michael James as they break down the ACC Tournament and look at Miami's first round opponent, NC State. Also on this show we discuss the other ACC teams on the bubble and consider the possible tournament fates of big name schools Florida, Syracuse, Kentucky, Villanova and Ohio State.

This episode of the Canes Rising Radio Podcast features Jorge Bannister's analysis of the weekend baseball series with Florida, where the Canes took two of three games as well as host Kartik Krishnaiyer's detailed look at the NCAA Basketball bubble and the RPI as well as some historical trends for bubble teams in the ACC. With Boston College and Florida State on tap hear what Miami needs to do to make life easy for all of us on Selection Sunday!

The Hurricanes have won four straight ACC games, and in this episode we break down Miami's tournament chances and the rest of the ACC with Michael James an ACC conference watcher from Virginia. Miami's win over Duke was historic but the wins over Virginia Tech, Georgia Tech and Maryland were also important as the Canes fight to end a five year NCAA tournament drought. We get into the RPI rankings and the remaining schedules for other ACC bubble teams in this episode of the Canes Rising Radio podcast.

Kartik flies solo in this short episode recapping the potentially historic UM recruiting class. Having been in Texas, the epicenter of the College and High School Football universe on signing day gave Kartik a unique perspective on the class, especially incoming Miami QB Taylor Cook from the Houston area. Next week we'll preview Baseball and discuss if the Hurricanes have any chance at the NCAAs in Basketball.

The Hurricanes poor late game execution in the ACC costs the team yet another critical road game at Wake Forest. Thoughts about Duke and Florida State as well as some thoughts about the entire national landscape of College Basketball with our special guest Michael James, one of the webs top College Basketball bloggers.

This action packed show focuses on the outstanding additions made to Randy Shannon's staff with the hiring of Bill Young and Aubrey Hill. We also discuss what Anthony King was thinking when he gifted NC State a valuable ACC game in Raleigh last weekend and what Miami is doing wrong and doing right thus far in ACC play. Gregg also chides Kartik about having too many jock classes with Aubrey Hill at UF. We don't all major in finance, though sometimes I wish I did. Football, Basketball, strong opinions and a bit of fun on this episode of the Canes Rising Radio Podcast.

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In this 15 minute show we discuss Miami's win over Georgia Tech and the upcoming match-up with Boston College. Here why host Kartik Krishnaiyer believes Frank Haith has lots of teaching to do to his team despite the good result on Saturday. Also the episode features some audio clips from the game. The next episode due out Thursday will discuss Football recruiting and wrap up the Boston College game.