Six Hurricanes finished in double figures to lead the University of Miami men's basketball team past crosstown foe Barry University, 91-61, Tuesday night at the Watsco Center in the team's lone exhibition game of the fall.
Junior forward Dewan Hernandez led all scorers with 19 points and added a game-high 10 rebounds to record a double-double.
Junior guard Dejan Vasiljevic also chipped in, as he totaled 17 points and five rebounds, converting on all seven of his attempts from the charity stripe. Redshirt senior Zach Johnson also finished with 17 points on Tuesday night.
Stuffing the stat sheet, senior guard Anthony Lawrence II picked up a game-high eight assists and three blocks, to go along with 11 points, eight rebounds and a steal.
Senior center Ebuka Izundu (13 points) and sophomore guard Chris Lykes (10 points) rounded out the sextuplet of Canes who finished the night in double figures.
As a team, the Hurricanes shot an efficient 56.1-percent (32-of-57) from the field, converting on 10 long range shots, while the defense blocked seven shots and held the Buccaneers to 26-of-72 (36.1-percent) from the field.
Overall, the Hurricanes closed out the half on 27-19 run to head into the locker room leading, 41-33, as Vasiljevic led all-scorers with 13 points in the period shooting a perfect 5-of-5 from the charity stripe.
Out of the locker room, the Hurricanes came out firing on all cylinders going on to outscore the Buccaneers 50-28 in the second stanza. Johnson and Hernandez led the attack in the half, as both notched 15 points in the final 20 minutes of play.
Hernandez finished the period shooting a perfect 7-of-7 from the field, including a 3-pointer, as the team shot an efficient 17-of-27 (63.0-percent) from the field.
Evan Walshe led the Buccaneers with 14 points and six rebounds, the lone Barry student-athlete to reach double figures.
Miami opens the regular season at home on Nov. 9 against Lehigh with tipoff set for 7 p.m., and will be broadcast live on ACC Network Extra.
Harry
Great insite as usual.
When all is said and done it comes down to the money.
In racing we used to say speed is money, how fast do you want to go?
Same thing applies to The U and football success.
Posted by: solarcane | October 31, 2018 at 09:20 PM
Truth. Great people working for or with U make U great!
Posted by: DallasTX Cane | October 31, 2018 at 08:56 PM
One more thing Smart Mark needs to understand "you
are not going to be any better then the (in this case) the coaches under you. I have all ways used this principle in my life and it has worked out very well.
Posted by: Harry Miller | October 31, 2018 at 08:45 PM
Best case scenario for sure, Harry Miller.
Posted by: DallasTX Cane | October 31, 2018 at 08:33 PM
We should all understand that so called Smart Mark
needs to stay as Head coach Simply because the U is in to deep financially to just fire his sorry butt.
He can best serve the U at this point as a Head coach who hires an real offensive coordinator, who should be able to pick his own quarterback coach. they should hire a real offensive line coach and special teams coach. Then smart Mark could focus on recruiting and doing what he dose best talking to the parents of these kids presenting the great attributes of the University of Miami and how he will nurture their kids through the very hard time of their life.Do these things along with all the other thing he is doing at the U.
With good coaches we would then be getting more 4* AND 5* recruits and Mark could do his thing, then we would become a top 5 program again year after year.. I truly miss those days.
Posted by: Harry Miller | October 31, 2018 at 08:29 PM
DTX,
I thought you and I already had the discussion years ago about posting logical thought out comments, versus spur of the moment emotion fueled opinions.
You are gonna have people stopping to think out their comments and just slow the blogging to a crawl.
Posted by: solarcane | October 31, 2018 at 07:17 PM
LOL Solar. Great point. EVERYTHING is on rewind I guess. And we thought the OL was bad back in 08... so, many apologies 86!... last thing I want is for the blob to slow to a crawl and U to shut it all down out of frustration!!
Dude - I don’t disagree on what I’d like to see happen... a dedicated OC and a HC that busts someone’s arse for our pitiful ST and awfense. But think on this - any AD that gets involved forcing coaching decisions on a HC creates a situation where the HC authority is questioned and where if you do fire the HC, what other coach will want to come work for that AD?
Posted by: DallasTX Cane | October 31, 2018 at 08:28 PM
Nice....hoops! Maybe a ray of light in the darkness?? Not to be the rock to your paper, but the ACC is freakin stacked this year!! Going to be real fun!
Posted by: DallasTX Cane | October 31, 2018 at 08:20 PM
Boom Baby.
Posted by: Terrance Sullivan | October 31, 2018 at 07:59 PM
TD it’s been 2 1/2 seasons and two real recruiting classes.
We aren’t even at 85 scholarship players yet.
We can’t be churning and burning coaches every three years forever.
Agree CMR has to add an aggressive young offensive mind. Let’s see what he does.
Posted by: Go Canes!! | October 31, 2018 at 07:54 PM
DTX,
its not that there arent smart football people on the BoT, its that theres some that are and some that arent and when trouble comes, they take too long to take action while they squabble over details, see Al Golden. We need a Football AD that hires/fires coordinators when the HC refuses to, and doesnt let the HC take the program down with him.
Posted by: Dude on a Pale Horse | October 31, 2018 at 07:41 PM
Way to go Harry Miller!
Posted by: 86Cane | October 31, 2018 at 07:27 PM
Well.. SOMEWHERE on campus there is an offense!
Posted by: roachcane77 | October 31, 2018 at 07:18 PM
About time
Posted by: Harry Miller | October 31, 2018 at 07:17 PM