The game finished with a banked-in three from Mike Robinson and it’s been that kind of start for the Miami Hurricanes who moved to 4-0 on the season with the 90-66 victory.
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Friday night’s matchup in the second Puerto Rico Tip-Off semifinal featured a battle between Miami and No. 16 Utah.
Miami topped the 100-point mark for the first time since 2004.
The redshirt senior finished the second half with 19 points including a few highlight-reel moves and finishes that sparked plenty of celebration from the Miami faithful in attendance. Missouri State committed just 11 turnovers….
Temple jumped out to a 12-2 lead, as Butler didn’t score in the game’s initial 3:12 and only scored once in the first 5:35.
After sophomore forward Obi Enechionyia picked up his second foul with 11:50 remaining in the first half, Butler went on an 11-6 run to cut Temple’s lead to three points.
But Minnesota, which shot just 38 percent from the field, had four turnovers during a four-minute stretch that eventually decided the game. “But again, I think we’re learning more about our team and who’s going to step up at what time”. “Then we had a few hiccups – couple bad shots, stepped out of bounds a few times”.
“Perhaps we weren’t executing like we needed to”, Coleman said. “Today it didn’t happen”.
King tried to draw a foul after pump faking on a three-pointer, so he just threw up a wild shot that wasted a possession. Instead of answering, Morris stepped out of bounds at 6:47. The Bears benefited most, making 26 of 37 free throws (70 percent) to hang around. Pitino was told he had a timeout left and called it, but the scorekeepers were mistaken and officials took it away.
Lewis scored seven of Butler’s first 13 points and kept delivering assists, one on a wraparound pass another to a trailing Chrabascz for a transition 3-pointer.
After back-to-back 20-point games to open the season, Joey King went scoreless in the first half Thursday.
Even with Quenton DeCosey and Jaylen Bond racking up double-doubles, and despite jumping out to a 12-point lead in the first 10 minutes, Temple couldn’t fend off the Bulldogs in a 74-69 defeat at Coliseo Roberto Clemente.
After scoring four points Thursday against the University of Minnesota, senior guard Josh Brown scored 12 points, including four 3-pointers.
After winning 35 games and reaching the Elite Eight last season, No. 12 Arizona had to address the fact that four starters from that team had moved on. In 2014-15, Pitino’s team had nine losses by six points or fewer.
“Defensive rebounding”, Mason said.
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On his team’s lack of rebounding: “I looks at the stat sheet at halftime and… we had one rebound among all of our big guys”. “We’re going to play the way we want to play and try to be as efficient as we can be offensively and defensively”.
