Blasi adds three players to Miami hockey class of 2020
Head coach Rico Blasi and Miami University hockey completed the signing class of 2020 with the addition of three players Thursday.
Defenseman Jared Brandt, forward Carter Johnson and forward Christian Mohs will join the RedHawks next season. Miami has 13 incoming freshmen.
Brandt, a native of St. Peters, Mo., spent three seasons with the Minot Minotauros of the North American Hockey League. During the 2015-16 season, he served as team captain, posted 26 points (5 goals, 21 assists) and notched a career-best +18 rating in 57 games. He holds a +7 rating overall in 147 NAHL games and helped the Minotauros to a 34-18-6 record last season.
Johnson is on the Corpus Christi IceRays with 37 points (16 goals, 21 assists) in 57 games during his first season in the NAHL. The Gimli, Manitoba native spent the previous two seasons with the Swan Valley Stampeders of the Manitoba Junior Hockey League, where he notched 85 points (36 goals, 49 assists) in 122 games.
Mohs, who played two seasons with Minot, is the club's all-time leading scorer and the first to reach 100 career points. During the 2015-16 season he led the Minotauros with 50 points (17 goals, 33 assists) in 60 games with a +8 rating while serving as an alternate captain. The Andover, Minn. native has 101 career points (35 goals, 66 assists) in 118 career NAHL games.
Three sign letters of intent with Miami basketball
Miami University men's basketball head coach John Cooper signed three to national letters of intent Wednesday. Forward Marcus Weathers, guard Michael Weathers and forward/center Bruno Solomun join the RedHawks next season.
Twin brothers Michael and Marcus Weathers, natives of Roeland Park, Kan., helped Shawnee Mission North High School to its first state title since 1953. In the state title game, the brothers combined for 46 points and 16 rebounds in a 80-56 win. The duo helped the team to a 21-4 record on the season.
Michael Weathers, a 6-foot-3, 165-pound point guard, finished as his school's all-time leader in points (1,626) and steals (189). He was named Sunflower League Player of the Year as a senior, after he averaged 20.9 points per game, 4.6 rebounds per game and 3.4 assists per game in 2015-16. He shot 52.2 percent from the field for his career.
Marcus Weathers, who stands at 6-foot-5 and 195 pounds, finished as Shawnee Mission's second all-time leading scorer with 1,150 points and its second all-time leading rebounder with 425 boards. He was named to the First-Team All-Sunflower League, averaging 18.5 points per game and 7.0 rebounds per game in 2015-16.
Bruno Solomun is originally from Zagreb, Croatia and prepped at Forsyth Country Day School in Lewisville, N.C. He stands at 6-foot-9, 218-pounds and earned All-North Western Private School honors as a senior after averaging 18 points per game, 8.0 rebounds per game and 5.0 assists per game. Solomun also played in Euroleague tournaments in Rome and Belgrade in 2014 and 2015.
Miami Hockey schedule for 2016-17 season released
For the third time in the last four years and second-straight season, Miami hosts the NCAA Midwest Regional in March at US Bank Arena in Cincinnati.
Miami plays 16 games against teams that competed in the 2016 NCAA Tournament. Eight of those pit the RedHawks against Frozen Four participants.
The Brotherhood begins next season on the road Oct. 7-8 against Providence College, which knocked Miami out of the 2014-15 NCAA tournament. Miami plays at home for the rest of October, hosting Ohio State University (Oct. 15), University of Maine (Oct. 21-22) and Bowling Green State University (Oct. 28-29).
National Collegiate Hockey Conference play begins Nov. 4-5 with a road trip to Western Michigan University, one of three NCHC series in November. Miami also plays host to University of Nebraska-Omaha Nov. 11-12 and concludes the month with a trip to University of Denver Nov. 18-19.
The RedHawks finish non-conference play with a series at Cornell University (Dec. 2-3) and a single game against Ohio State Dec. 31. They'll host NCHC member Colorado College Dec. 9-10.
January begins with a home series against defending conference champion St. Cloud State on Jan. 6-7. After visiting defending national champion North Dakota on the road Jan. 13-14 and traveling to Omaha Jan. 20-21, MU hosts Western Michigan Jan. 27-28.
Miami's last two regular season road trips are against St. Cloud State Feb. 10-11 and University of Minnesota-Duluth Feb. 23-24.