{"id":200175,"date":"2026-03-21T07:10:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200175\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T07:10:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T07:10:15","slug":"miami-hurricanes-open-as-underdogs-to-purdue-boilermakers-in-2026-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200175\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Hurricanes open as underdogs to Purdue Boilermakers in 2026 NCAA tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Join our March Madness conversation!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Drop in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/march-madness\/post\/BXyKZ0eGD63O?itm_medium=march_madness_feed_thread&amp;itm_source=stateoftheu\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:SB Nation\u2019s March Madness open thread;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;SB Nation\u2019s March Madness open thread&quot;}\" class=\"link \">SB Nation\u2019s March Madness open thread<\/a> during Friday\u2019s games where we\u2019ll be talking about all the wild upsets, buzzer beaters, and Cinderella runs!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">SB Nation\u2019s cast of characters will be enjoying the game together, so join Chris Dobbertean, Mike Rutherford, Ricky O\u2019Donnell, Mark Schofield, James Dator, and others for 12 hours of basketball chaos!<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The mantra in March is \u201csurvive and advance\u201d, and Miami did just that with an 80-66 win over Mizzou in the first round of the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Moving forward, the Canes are headed to a matchup with the 2-seed Purdue Boilermakers, one of the favorites to get to the Final Four. And the opening line tells that story:<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Miami will need to play one of their best games of the year to pull an upset over a Purdue team that just hung 100+ points on their opening round opponent. We\u2019ve seen the Canes win some big games this year, but this one would take an effort and performance we\u2019ve yet to see against a team of this caliber.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">But hey, anything can happen, so let\u2019s go win!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">See you Sunday!<\/p>\n<p>Go Canes<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Join our March Madness conversation! Drop in SB Nation\u2019s March Madness open thread during Friday\u2019s games where we\u2019ll&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[92583,92582,92580,123,125,124,92579,10480,142,11474,2519,92581],"class_list":["post-200175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-enterprise-center","tag-mark-schofield","tag-men39s-basketball","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-mike-rutherford","tag-missouri-tigers","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-tournament","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-ricky-odonnell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200175","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=200175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}