Who Knew That Larranaga Had Some New Tricks?

They called him old.

They called him tired.

They said the game had passed him by.

They were wrong.

No, we are not referring to our good friend and long-time blogger NativeCane shown above with his cute little FSU harem.

And no, we are certainly not talking about KYCane or RaizeCane who can be seen below with two Louisville lovelies with the rock hard abs.

We are talking about none other than the Dean of college basketball with 38 years of experience on the job in UM basketball coach Jim Larranaga.

Coach L has shown that the old man apparently has some new tricks up his sleeve for his ACC opponents this season. His latest trick was to top off a nine game winning streak with a huge, stunning, last second two-point win over second-ranked Duke on Saturday. And, he did it on the road nonetheless.

Here is the story from www.hurricanesports.com (read more there):

The University of Miami men’s basketball team matched its record for the highest-ranked opponent defeated on the road in program history, shocking second-ranked Duke, 76-74, Saturday night at a sold-out Cameron Indoor Stadium.

The Hurricanes led by as many as eight points in a start-to-finish thriller to become the first team in the nation this season to knock off a top-two team on the road. Sixth-year redshirt senior guard Charlie Moore scored a team-high 18 points for the Hurricanes, who tied a program record in ACC play with 15 steals.

Seven of those steals came from Moore, good for the most ever by a Hurricane in ACC play and tied for the second-most ever by an opposing player at Cameron Indoor Stadium. The stingy defense helped Miami (13-3, 5-0 ACC) up its winning streak to nine in a row.

“That was an exciting game from start to finish,” Miami head coach Jim Larrañaga said after moving to 7-7 against Duke during his time at The U. “I thought our guys played extremely well and got us off to a good start. Duke came roaring back and played very well. We were tied up at the half and both teams kind of just exchanged punches in the second half.

“Duke, obviously, has earned their high ranking,” he continued. “I’m really proud of the way my guys executed the game plan and stuck together.”

The Hurricanes, who forced eight turnovers in the first 10 minutes, used an 8-0, 51-second burst to grab a 14-6 lead after just 5:11, but Duke (12-2, 2-1 ACC) quickly answered. After the two teams exchanged baskets, Miami went scoreless for 5:24, missing 10 straight shots, as the Blue Devils scored 13 straight points, including drilling three consecutive 3-pointers, to go up by five, 21-16, with 9:52 on the clock.

Duke extended its run to 18-2, taking a 26-18 lead with 7:02 left in the half. The Hurricanes, however, countered right back, holding the Blue Devils without a point for five minutes and notching 10 in a row at the other end to go ahead, 28-26, with 2:52 remaining.

The sides went into the intermission deadlocked at 32, the first even score at the break for Miami this season. The Hurricanes notched 11 first-half steals, setting a program record in the ACC era (since 2004-05) for a single frame. Moore, who scored a game-best nine first-half points, individually recorded five steals, already tying his career high. In total, Miami forced 13 turnovers and committed just four, en route to a 13-0 edge in points off giveaways.

Duke took a five-point lead in the second half, but Miami answered with a 13-2 surge in just 3:08 to go in front by six, 60-54, with 9:12 left. The spurt was part of a streak of nine straight made field goals, including three in a row by third-year sophomore guard Isaiah Wong.

The Hurricanes held a three-point edge, 71-68, in the final 100 seconds, but Duke scored six consecutive points in 48 seconds to go up, 74-71, with 44.9 ticks remaining. Moore made a driving layup through contact at the other end and although he missed the free throw, fourth-year junior guard Jordan Miller grabbed the rebound and sixth-year redshirt senior guard Kameron McGusty made a layup to put Miami up by one. After a defensive stop, Wong split a pair of free throws with 16 seconds to play.

Duke then missed multiple shots at the other end, sending the Hurricanes into a raucous celebration in front of the silent crowd of 9,314.

“When they got ahead by three, it didn’t look good for us, but Charlie Moore made a sensational move to the basket, made an incredible layup and then Jordan Miller came up with an incredible offensive rebound,” Larrañaga said. “Kameron McGusty hit the game-winner, so a lot of guys contributed throughout the game.”

And no, we are definitely not talking about Terrance here with his FSU hotties.

Everyone knows Terrance got game!

Here is a list of some of Coach Larranaga's accomplishments while at Miami:

MIAMI HURRICANES POSTGAME NOTES
– The Hurricanes moved to 9-22 all-time against Duke, including 3-11 on the road and 7-7 in Larrañaga’s tenure.
– Since Larrañaga arrived in 2011-12, Miami’s seven wins against Duke are solely the second-most of any program during that span, trailing only the 10 by North Carolina, which plays Duke at least twice a year.
– The Hurricanes’ three road victories over Duke since Larrañaga’s 2011-12 arrival are solely the second-most of any team, behind just the four by North Carolina.
– Miami (7-7) and Louisville (6-6) are the only ACC teams with a .500 record against Duke during Larrañaga’s tenure, with one of the Cardinals’ wins coming before they joined the league.
– According to ESPN Stats & Info, Larrañaga is the fifth coach with multiple AP top-five road wins over Duke, joining Dean Smith (five), Gary Williams (three), Roy Williams (three) and Dave Odom (two).
– Larrañaga, who entered the game with the ninth-most victories of any active Division I coach, is now 683-467 in 38 years as a head coach, including 213-133 in 11 seasons at Miami.
– With 213 wins as an ACC head coach, Larrañaga tied Vic Bubas for No. 14 on the all-time leaderboard.
– Larrañaga now has nine wins over top-10 foes during his Miami tenure, including eight in ACC play.
– According to Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press, unranked teams had lost 59 consecutive road games against top-two teams in the nation prior to Saturday night.
– The only other team in country to defeat a top-three opponent on the road this season is No.23 Wisconsin, which won at third-ranked Purdue on 1/3/22.
– The victory matched the highest-ranked AP opponent the Hurricanes have ever defeated on the road, as they previously defeated second-ranked Connecticut, 73-71, on 2/20/99 in Storrs, Conn.
– This is the fourth AP top-two win in program history, with three of those four versus Duke, as Miami also knocked off the top-ranked Blue Devils, 90-63, on 1/23/13 and beat the second-ranked Blue Devils, 71-69, on 12/21/62, both at home.
– The Hurricanes now have eight victories all-time over teams ranked in the top five of either poll, including five in Larrañaga’s tenure and six against Duke.
– Miami now owns seven wins over AP top-five teams, including four under Larrañaga and five versus the Blue Devils.
– This is the fifth AP top-three win in program history, including the third under Larrañaga and the third against Duke.
– The Hurricanes are currently the only team in the ACC with a 5-0 league record and sit alone atop the conference standings.
– Miami is 5-0 in ACC play for the second time ever and first since 2012-13, when it started league play 13-0.
– The Hurricanes are riding a nine-game winning streak for the first time since 11/10/17 to 12/22/17 when they started the 2017-18 season with a 10-0 record.

Comments

[alpine]

me no like:
"FSU’s streak of wins once reaching overtime is 13 consecutive games—a Division I men’s basketball all-time record."

[AeroCane]

I bet Briles and candle are pissed Mario took so freaking long to make a decision and offer! Now they’re saying ‘f’ you! Now what ‘slow poke’ Mario?
Same with DC!
Jeez, you have your top 2 or 3 when you landed the job and go all out. Not wait months then these high ego guys feel slighted.

[MLALUMNI1970]

Can’t wait for Saturday, and watch our Canes play FSU, at home! I think the game is in the afternoon.

[TJL]

Need to back up the Brinks truck for Corey Raymond

[TJL]

cash...crypto...Columbian hookers whatever it takes

[Ohio_Cane]

Donations being taken for Larry Blustein who is in the ICU with Covid. If U can donate to the GOAT SFLA recruiting expert, please do so:

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-our-boy-blu?utm_source=customer&utm_medium=copy_link_all&utm_campaign=m_pd+share-sheet

[Ohio_Cane]

Apparently we were offering Jason Candle $1.7 mil per year as OC. That's top 3 money in the country.

[Ohio_Cane]

CaneSport Miami Hurricanes
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A basic principle of Mario Cristobal coordinator searches is that he always has multiple candidates, always discusses pay in advance and never offers job before candidate has said he would accept. Assuming he has stuck to that, several folks are using Miami openings to get raises

[86Cane]

cash...crypto...Columbian hookers whatever it takes

Posted by: TJL | January 20, 2022 at 12:11 PM

Here's a question not yet asked: Can U pay Columbian hookers with crypto?

[nemo2020]

cash...crypto...Columbian hookers whatever it takes

Posted by: TJL | January 20, 2022 at 12:11 PM

Here's a question not yet asked: Can U pay Columbian hookers with crypto?

Posted by: 86Cane | January 20, 2022 at 05:42 PM

Doesn't everyone?

[JCane]

Jake Garcia LifeWallet NIL deal announced. 60 grand in 22 and 85 grand in 23. Guess this incentives our qb2 to stick around rather than hit the portal if TVD blows up even more or simply to wait his turn

[alpine]

lady canes did their job, going into the tally-lair and knocking off fsu
. . . 1st win IN tally since 2014

- okay men, your turn to step it up and stomp 'em down tomorrow!

[Ohio_Cane]

For anyone that cares about my guess:

DC = Doug Belk, IMO

OC = I have no damn clue any more lol

[JCane]

Belk signed a new contract the end of last year with a pay bump from 500,000 to a cool million. Obviously the U is now operating at a different economic level, but as 86 has said, it's just craziness. Clearly a DC deal with UM would be another nice "bump."

[orange 'n green in the vein]

"Posted by: JCane | January 20, 2022 at 10:46 PM"

Starter won't be coming back to start another entire season after 2022 if things work themselves out the way you'd like to see though anyway.

[AeroCane]

Starter won't be coming back to start another entire season after 2022 if things work themselves out the way you'd like to see though anyway.
Posted by: orange 'n green in the vein

Correct

[alpine]

trivia of the day:
tate martell "retires"
https://www.si.com/college/2022/01/18/former-five-star-recruit-tate-martell-retires-from-football

[Ohio_Cane]

S&C coach Aaron Feld on 790 this morning. Like this guy!

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/aaron-feld-w-tobin-and-leroy/id1218528304?i=1000548583576

[JCane]

Agreed totally, Aero and OGV. However, these days many guys aren't willing to wait even 1 season for their turns any more. Some extra incentive/$ just boosts the odds. Money=loyalty

[JCane]

Rumor is that the U may be willing to spend up to 1.75 million for the OC

[orange 'n green in the vein]

Leonard Hamilton, hell of a basketball coach.

[nemo2020]

Apparently, beating FSU is one "new trick" that Old Coach L hasn't been able to learn.

Posted by: neno2020 | January 11, 2022 at 10:15 PM

Alpine, where are you?

[nemo2029]

Leonard Hamilton, hell of a basketball coach.

Posted by: orange 'n green in the vein | January 22, 2022 at 03:01 PM

He certainly recruits well - much better than U know who - doesn't he?

[86Cane]

Gonna need one HELUVA comeback against FSPoo.

[86Cane]

Rumor is that the U may be willing to spend up to 1.75 million for the OC

Posted by: JCane | January 22, 2022 at 01:37 PM

OK, OK....I'll take the J O B!

[86Cane]

Don't look now but FSU's lead is down to 10 points, 6 minutes left.

[toledocane]

Down to 6!

[toledocane]

Down 1 with 8 seconds and the ball!

[toledocane]

Wong missed :(

[alpine]

i'm suffering high blood pressure right now; phew!
- 1st half, fsu outplayed miami, but not by 26; canes just had an egregiously cold night: "couldn't buy a basket" as the saying goes
- 2nd half could've been the comeback of the year if wong's shot finds the net
- alas, romeo died piteously in the first half; juliet, seemingly asleep, woke up in the 2nd half; but died anyway
- the horrible metaphor simply to point out, this was shakespearian drama tonight

[nemo2020]

Alpine,
Good analysis. Tough loss.
FSU's height advantage really hurt us in the first half.

[Terrance Sullivan]

Pathetic Pathetic Loss Today SMH.well at least this will be a tournament team but I don't see anything beyond a 1 and done in the tournament a good season at best but not Sweet 16 type teams like 2016, 2013, and the couple of teams under Coach Ham in the Big East Days.

[MLALUMNI1970]

As I said before, I am just too old for this shit! 73, and I just want to beat the Noles, at home, before I croak! Is that too much to ask? I guess it is. I bet Wong would like that shot to do over and over. But, he can’t do it ALONE. That is all, as 86 would say.
Shot in my retina next week, and vertigo treatment on February 7th. Then I can go to Florida, I hope. Bleeding in the retina and bad vertigo are my ailments.

[alpine]

Posted by: Terrance Sullivan | January 22, 2022 at 08:00 PM
- i'm thinkin' we're not watching the same team?
- miami goes into fsu, top team in the acc; loses by one on a controversial foul call after an earlier mess up on a goal-tending call
- miami takes out syracuse, after coming back from 18 down; has a great game vs. duke and gives nc an ass-whooping
- plays again vs. fsu but miami goes frigidaire-cold in the 1st half and has to dig themselves out of a 24 point hole . . . WHICH THEY DO! and have the possibility of winning the game on the last shot
- "pathetic"? if you left at intermission; otherwise? i think it's a better adjective to describe your post
- miami an easy one and done? . . . miami will be the same mature, dangerous team, if the injury bug doesn't find them

[AeroCane]

Alpine
You do understand that it’s about wins and losses not how you play the game! Right? You get that?
Coach L is still the same old nothing coach who won’t get us anywhere close to where we want to be! With the excitement of Mario, it’s time to move on from this dinosaur to greener pastures as soon as this season ends!

[nemo2020]

When one basketball team always has the shortest player(s) on the court, and the other team always has the tallest player(s) on the court, guess which team wins? NOT US.

A close loss is still a LOSS - yet ANOTHER loss to our in-state rival, FSU.

NINE straight losses to the same team can only be explained by the obvious fact that one head coach more consistently recruits better players than the other one.

We can't blame NINE straight losses to FSU merely on "injuries" or "the NCAA" or any one of Brother Alpine's other (tired old) excuses for Coach Larranaga.

Coach K is retiring after this season. Does anyone in their right mind think that Duke would want to hire Coach L to succeed Coach K? Indeed, would ANY other school in the ACC (or in any other top conference) want to hire Larraraga away from Miami next year? OF COURSE NOT. Any such school would surely hire someone else to lead it's men's basketball program (despite Larrañaga's many years of experience). So, why are we so different? UM SHOULD HIRE SOMEONE ELSE TOO.

[AeroCane]

Alpine
Nemo and I get it! Why you still making excuses and in love with coach L? Are you related to him?

[nemo2020]

Latest UM OC rumor mill turns to App State Offensive Coordinator/Quarterbacks Coach Frank Ponce.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/ncaafb/latest-oc-rumor-mill-turns-to-frank-ponce/ar-AAT3MDh?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=U531

[alpine]

Alpine
You do understand that it’s about wins and losses not how you play the game! Right? You get that?
Posted by: AeroCane | January 23, 2022 at 04:10 AM

- sports are "entertainment"; if you are entertained, then the game has done it's job . . . i was definitely entertained by both fsu games
. . . if that had been a bottom-feeder, i might not have found it so entertaining; vs. a good program? yes!

[alpine]

When one basketball team always has the shortest player(s) on the court, and the other team always has the tallest player(s) on the court, guess which team wins? NOT US.
Posted by: nemo2020 | January 23, 2022 at 08:59 AM

interesting basketball understanding
. . . so miami was shorter than duke & NC?

[AeroCane]

Nemo
I’ve been hearing his name for awhile
Personally I liked Briles but I truly believe he wasn’t actually offered the position and he leveraged the interview with Arkansas; candle would of been another great hire and if he had crushed it here, he’d be up for a nice HC position within 2 years! (Way above Toledo)
Maybe it will happen with Ponce - seems like he’d be a nice hire
Otherwise he’s stuck with trying to rehire manny as his DC and Coker as his OC
LOL

[alpine]

Hamilton, who coached at UM from 1990-2000, praised Larranaga for turning Miami around this season and said he hopes fans appreciate the in-state rivalry and how far the programs at UM and FSU have come. “It’s amazing, you have to give Coach Larranaga a lot of credit for coming from an injury-plagued team to the team that was No. 1 in the ACC,” Hamilton said. “That says a lot about his ability to recruit and assess how to play within the talent they have. They play a unique style, different from all the other teams we play and it’s extremely effective. I think it’s great to have two teams from Florida ranked 1 and 2 in the ACC. You could say we’re 1A and they’re 1B.”

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/sports/college/acc/university-of-miami/article257601398.html#storylink=cpy

[AeroCane]

Alpine
Of course he’s gonna say that
He’s beat us 9 times in a row
He wants our idiotic fans to want to keep the dinosaur! LOL

[orange 'n green in the vein]

Genius plan, fire the basketball coach at Miami because his team lost two ACC conference games by a combined two points while the refs bailed out the same team that beat them once, then refused to bail out Miami in the exact same circumstance in the rematch because that's the way basketball officiating is worked in the league.

Yeah, no wonder Radakovich is the AD and you're not.

[alpine]

Posted by: orange 'n green in the vein | January 23, 2022 at 12:25 PM
lol!
in your court, aero

[nemo2020]

Genius plan, fire the basketball coach at Miami because his team lost two ACC conference games by a combined two points while the refs bailed out the same team that beat them once, then refused to bail out Miami in the exact same circumstance in the rematch because that's the way basketball officiating is worked in the league.

Yeah, no wonder Radakovich is the AD and you're not.

Posted by: orange 'n green in the vein | January 23, 2022 at 12:25 PM

Perhaps, Coach L's subpar 10-year record (e.g., barely above 50%) against ACC competition would give some legitimate pause for concern, don't you think?

If he's such a great coach these days, then UM better watch out because Duke may hire him away from Miami to replace Coach K at the end of this season. (No, of course not!)

Incidentally, let me be clear. Given his lengthy experience at the college level, Larranaga is as good as anyone these days coaching a basketball team on game day. Everyone knows that. And, yes, fellow septuagenarian ACC colleagues, such as Coaches H and K, freely acknowledge this fact. However, his best days as a top recruiter have long since passed.

But we're stuck with him it seems - because he still has a couple of years remaining (I think) on his contract - and also because no other school would want to hire him away from UM. (Damn it!)

P.S. It would be good, if Miami (finally) beats FSU in the ACC tourney and then has a deep run in the Big Dance - so, perhaps, Coach L could (finally) retire on a high note.

[AeroCane]

Alpine
Just because you and OGV are happy with coach L’s results over the past 5 plus years doesn’t mean I have to be.
So no, don’t be an idiot and tell me the ball is in my court.
With the excitement of Mario, I still say the dinosaur is ‘forced’ to retire after the season (at least I can hope)

[nemo2020]

I got your back Aero!

The problem, I think, is that the UM basketball program has been DOWN for so long that now it looks like UP to Alpine and his wingman OGV.

Fortunately, however, there are still some UM basketball fans who recognize the difference between rigor mortis and signs of life.

[nemo2020]

Ohio,

Where are you?

Any hot takes for us - about coordinators or recruits?

Thanks?

[JCane]

I wonder how coach K would have fared with the Adidas/FBI scandal/several year recruiting interference that UM hoops went through. Not comparing the 2 coaches, as coach K has a draw like few others, but I am amazed at the improvement in the program since last year, although disappointed in how the first half went and two losses to FSU again this season. Kudos to rhe old man.