MBB Plays Barry in Tuesday Exhibition
October 30, 2018 | 7 p.m.
Watsco Center | Coral Gables, Fla.
Miami vs. Barry
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. – As it ramps up for the start of the 2018-19 regular season, the Miami men’s basketball team plays Barry University in an exhibition game at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the Watsco Center.
Tickets remain available and can be purchased online HERE or at the Watsco Center ticket office.
The game will stream online HERE via ACC Network Extra, which is available to authenticated users through ESPN3.
Things to Know
• Jim Larrañaga enters his eighth season as head coach. He is the fourth-longest tenured head coach in program history but owns the second-most wins (161).
• UM returns 63 percent of its scoring, 65 percent of its rebounding and 46 percent of its assists from the 2017-18 squad.
• DJ Vasiljevic led the ACC in 3-point shooting last season at 41.1 percent.
• Miami returns three players who started at least 20 games apiece last year: Dewan Hernandez, Anthony Lawrence II and DJ Vasiljevic.
• Formerly Dewan Huell, Hernandez legally changed his last name as a way to honor his mother, Christina Hernandez.
• Miami, Duke, North Carolina and Virginia are the only ACC schools to record six or more 20-win seasons in the last seven years.
• Miami was picked 10th in the Preseason ACC Poll.
Miami is opening its 69th season of men’s basketball. The Canes return seven letterwinners from its 2017-18 team, which went 22-10, tied for third in the ACC and reached the program’s third straight NCAA Tournament: Hernandez, Lawrence, Vasiljevic, Ebuka Izundu, Chris Lykes, Rodney Miller Jr. and Sam Waardenburg. Miami also gains the services of forward Deng Gak, who redshirted last year during his freshman season.
Miami added four newcomers to the program, with three arriving via transfers. Zach Johnson scored 1,344 points in three seasons at Florida Gulf Coast and was a First-Team All-Atlantic Sun Conference selection last season before coming to UM as a graduate transfer. Anthony Mack sat out last season at Wyoming and has four years of eligibility remaining at UM. Junior guard Kameron McGusty is sitting out this season after transferring from Oklahoma. He averaged 9.4 ppg in 63 games in two years years with the Sooners. Sophomore Willie Herenton joined the program as a walk-on during the summer.
Barry went 23-9 last season, including a 14-6 record in the Sunshine State Conference. The Buccaneers reached the quarterfinals of the NCAA Division II Tournament before bowing out to the eventual national champion, Ferris State, 87-84. Barry lost its top three scorers from last season, but returns a pair of front-court starters, Daniel Mortensen and Marko Tomic. Mortensen averaged 11.9 points and 6.7 rebounds per game, while Tomic averaged 9.4 points per game.
Miami opens its regular season on Nov. 9 with a 7 p.m. home game against Lehigh, the first of three straight home contests to begin the season.
Season tickets for the 2018-19 Men’s Basketball home schedule start at $160 and are on sale now through the UM Athletics Ticket Office. Tickets can be purchased online HERE or by calling the ticket office at 1-800-GO-CANES. For more details, call the ticket office or email canestix@miami.edu. Miami has sold out its season-ticket allotment for three straight seasons.
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