OXFORD — You will have to excuse the Miami basketball team if it forgot how to react to a partisan crowd. For the first time in more than a month, the RedHawks will play a home game — tonight against Marshall.

        “We're looking forward to it,” Juby Johnson said. “It's like weird to think about how long it's been since we played (at home). Hopefully we won't come out overly excited to play in front of the home crowd.”

        The RedHawks (4-9, 1-1 Mid-American Conference) went 2-5 on their seven-game road trip.

        Now they have three consecutive MAC home games before returning to the road for four of their next five. “I knew how difficult our schedule was set up,” MU coach Charlie Coles said of his team's month away from Oxford. “Someone must not like us.” Marshall is averaging 75 points compared to Miami's league-low 61. The Thundering Herd (7-5, 2-1 MAC) have five players averaging double figures.

        Tamar Slay and J.R. VanHoose rank fourth and 10th in the conference in scoring with 19.3 and 16.8 points, respectively.
       

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