Virginia Tech Hokies (17-9, 6-7 ACC) at Miami Hurricanes (20-5, 9-3 ACC)<\/p>\n
Coral Gables, Florida; Tuesday, 8 p.m. EST<\/p>\n
BOTTOM LINE: Miami (FL) hosts Virginia Tech after Malik Reneau scored 26 points in Miami (FL)’s 77-76 win over the NC State Wolfpack.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes are 13-2 on their home court. Miami (FL) is fourth in the ACC with 16.7 assists per game led by Tre Donaldson averaging 6.0.<\/p>\n
The Hokies have gone 6-7 against ACC opponents. Virginia Tech is 5-3 in one-possession games.<\/p>\n
Miami (FL) scores 83.6 points, 8.9 more per game than the 74.7 Virginia Tech gives up. Virginia Tech has shot at a 45.0% rate from the field this season, 1.9 percentage points higher than the 43.1% shooting opponents of Miami (FL) have averaged.<\/p>\n
The Hurricanes and Hokies face off Tuesday for the first time in ACC play this season.<\/p>\n
TOP PERFORMERS: Reneau is scoring 20.1 points per game and averaging 6.6 rebounds for the Hurricanes. Shelton Henderson is averaging 16.6 points and 5.6 rebounds over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
Amani Hansberry is averaging 14.7 points, eight rebounds and 1.6 steals for the Hokies. Jailen Bedford is averaging 14.8 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n
LAST 10 GAMES: Hurricanes: 7-3, averaging 76.9 points, 32.4 rebounds, 13.9 assists, 7.1 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 49.3% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.6 points per game.<\/p>\n
Hokies: 5-5, averaging 73.7 points, 29.1 rebounds, 12.2 assists, 5.9 steals and 2.5 blocks per game while shooting 43.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 76.4 points.<\/p>\n
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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Virginia Tech Hokies (17-9, 6-7 ACC) at Miami Hurricanes (20-5, 9-3 ACC) Coral Gables, Florida; Tuesday, 8 p.m.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[75346,21823,8294,111,54256,1882,28,22866,2537,123,125,5079,62425,124,62424,110,9574,6755],"class_list":["post-157135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-amani-hansberry","tag-atlantic-coast-conference","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-data-skrive","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-malik-reneau","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-miami-hurricanes-mens-basketball","tag-miami-news","tag-send-to-apple-news","tag-sports","tag-virginia","tag-virginia-tech-hokies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157135\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}