Miami basketball travels to Brooklyn to play Temple: Game Info
The Miami basketball team is in Brooklyn Tuesday to play Temple at the Barclays Center on Tuesday night.
The Miami basketball team is in Brooklyn on Tuesday night to play Temple as part of the Air Force Reserve Basketball Hall of Fame Invitational. The Hurricanes will tip-off with Temple after wins in their last two games. Miami most recently defeated Alabama A&M 88-74 on Saturday afternoon.
Miami had balanced scoring against the Bulldogs. Four Hurricanes finished in double figures against Alabama A&M. Kam McGusty scored his Miami high 21 points. Temple travels north to face Miami with a 7-2 record. The Owls are coming off of a 108-61 annihilation of crosstown rival St Joseph’s.
Temple is led by senior guard Quinton Ross who paces them with 14.7 points per game and 3.1 assists. It should be a good matchup between Ross and Miami junior point guard Chris Lykes who is second on Miami averaging 14.6 ppg and tied with McGusty for the team lead at 2.4 assists per game.
Dejan Vasiljevic leads Miami with 14.9 PPG. Vasiljevic, McGusty, Lykes and freshman guard Harlond Beverly have given the Hurricanes excellent scoring punch on perimeter.
Miami needs more consistent scoring upfront from junior center Rodney Miller, senior forward Keith Stone who has only played two games and redshirt junior forward Sam Waardenburg.
"GAME 10 | DEC. 17, 2019 • 9:30 P.M. ET • BROOKLYN, N.Y.Miami Hurricanes (6-3, 0-1 ACC)Head Coach: Jim Larrañaga (Providence, 1971)Record at UM: 181-100 (ninth season), Career Record: 651-434 (36th season)Temple Owls (7-2, 0-0 AAC)Head Coach: Aaron McKie (Temple, 1994)Record at TU: 7-2 (first season), Career Record: 7-2 (first season)SERIES HISTORYAll-Time: 2-2 (2-1 since rebirth) | Home: 0-1 | Away: 0-1 | Neutral: 2-0 | Coach L: 1-0 (1-0 at Miami)Last Meeting: 60-57 neutral-site win in NIT (March 31, 2015) | First Meeting: 85-67 home loss (Dec. 29, 1961)BROADCAST INFORMATIONESPNU • Play-by-Play: Tom Hart • Color: Andy Kennedy | WatchESPNWQAM 560 AM • Joe Zagacki | WQAM.Radio.comWVUM 90.5 FM • Danny LaRose • Josh White | WVUM.orgCourtesy HurricaneSports.Com"
Junior guard Nate Pierre-Louis is the only other player scoring in double figures for Temple at 12.3 PPG, is also second behind Ross with 2.3 APG and leads Temple with 8.6 rebounds and 2.3 steals per game. Miami has to take care of the ball. Temple averages almost nine steals per game. The Owls do a superb job defensively.
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The Owls limit opponents to 35.2 percent from the floor. That is fifth nationally. Temple opponents only make 28.3 percent of their three-point attempts. The game at the Barclays Center, the home court of the Nets will be the 18th for the Miami basketball team in an NBA arena under head coach Jim Larranaga.
The Hurricanes have been mediocre with just a 7-10 record playing in the Association arenas. Miami is 1-3 at the Barclays Center. The Hurricanes last played at the Barclays in the 2018 ACC Tournament losing 82-65 to North Carolina. Miami last played in an NBA arena in the 2019 ACC tournament at the spectrum center in Charlotte.
The Hurricanes lost 71-56 to Virginia Tech in the second round of the ACC Tournament. Temple last played in an NBA arena last year the Barclay’s in the legends classic. The backgrounds are bigger and more vast in the bigger NBA arenas. That can cause shooting to be more difficult.
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Temple is coached by legendary former Owls player Aaron McKie. McKie averaged 17.9 PPG in three seasons with Temple in the 1990s. He is 7-2 in his first season succeeding long-time Owls coach Fran Dunphy.