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UM's men's basketball team has produced three players who are currently on NBA rosters. Rick Barry, who played his collegiate basketball at UM, is a member of the Basketball Hall of Fame. Barry is the Hurricanes' only consensus All-American in basketball and led the nation in scoring his senior year with a 37.4 average during the 1964–65 campaign.
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About The Miami Hurricanes
The university actually dropped the program after the 1972 season, with the Board of Trustees citing inadequate facilities, sagging attendance, and serious financial losses as the reasons for the decision, and the program was revived before the 1985–86 season, though UM would be minimally competitive over the next several years. The program's fortunes turned around in 1990 when Miami hired Leonard Hamilton as head basketball coach and accepted an invitation to join the Big East. By the end of the decade, Hamilton had turned UM into one of the better basketball programs in the Big East and had guided UM to three straight NCAA tournament appearances (1998–2000), including a number 2 seed in the 1999 tournament and a Sweet 16 appearance in 2000. The 1998 tournament appearance was UM's first since 1960.
Hamilton left at the end of the 2000 season to become head coach of the NBA's Washington Wizards and was replaced by Perry Clark. Clark had some success in his second season (2001–02), leading UM to a school record 24 wins and a number 5 seed in the NCAA tournament, and the 2002–03 season saw Miami move into its newly completed on-campus arena, the BankUnited Center. In the 2007/2008 after being picked to finish last in the Atlantic Coast Conference by many experts the Hurricanes proved competitive and started off the season 12-0. They eventually finished the year with 23-11, and reached the second round of the NCAA Tournament before falling to the second seeded University of Texas. This was the Hurricanes first tournament bid since the 2001/2002 season.
