{"id":200475,"date":"2026-03-21T13:54:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200475\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T13:54:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T13:54:24","slug":"purdue-boilermakers-play-the-miami-hurricanes-in-second-round","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/200475\/","title":{"rendered":"Purdue Boilermakers play the Miami Hurricanes in second round"},"content":{"rendered":"

Miami Hurricanes (26-8, 14-6 ACC) vs. Purdue Boilermakers<\/a> (28-8, 17-7 Big Ten<\/a>)<\/p>\n

St. Louis; Sunday, 12:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Boilermakers -7.5; over\/under is 147.5<\/p>\n

BOTTOM LINE: No. 8 Purdue squares off against No. 25 Miami (FL) in the second round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n

The Boilermakers have gone 17-7 against Big Ten teams, with an 11-1 record in non-conference play. Purdue ranks sixth in the Big Ten in rebounding averaging 33.0 rebounds. Trey Kaufman-Renn<\/a> leads the Boilermakers with 8.5 boards.<\/p>\n

The Hurricanes are 14-6 in ACC play. Miami (FL) is seventh in the ACC with 23.9 defensive rebounds per game led by Ernest Udeh Jr.<\/a> averaging 6.1.<\/p>\n

Purdue averages 9.4 made 3-pointers per game, 1.0 more made shot than the 8.4 per game Miami (FL) gives up. Miami (FL) has shot at a 49.9% rate from the field this season, 5.3 percentage points above the 44.6% shooting opponents of Purdue have averaged.<\/p>\n

TOP PERFORMERS: Braden Smith<\/a> is averaging 14.3 points, nine assists and 1.7 steals for the Boilermakers. Kaufman-Renn is averaging 16.3 points and 7.1 rebounds while shooting 64.5% over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n

Malik Reneau<\/a> is averaging 19 points and 6.6 rebounds for the Hurricanes. Tre Donaldson<\/a> is averaging 18.1 points over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n

LAST 10 GAMES: Boilermakers: 7-3, averaging 81.6 points, 29.6 rebounds, 21.3 assists, 4.5 steals and 2.8 blocks per game while shooting 51.7% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 72.0 points per game.<\/p>\n

Hurricanes: 7-3, averaging 77.2 points, 31.6 rebounds, 13.9 assists, 7.7 steals and 3.2 blocks per game while shooting 47.4% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 73.9 points.<\/p>\n

___<\/p>\n

The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Hurricanes (26-8, 14-6 ACC) vs. Purdue Boilermakers (28-8, 17-7 Big Ten) St. Louis; Sunday, 12:10 p.m. EDT…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[12284,42616,8294,22867,70652,22866,123,125,124,2519,22869,92663],"class_list":["post-200475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-big-ten","tag-braden-smith","tag-college-basketball","tag-ernest-udeh-jr","tag-event_preview","tag-malik-reneau","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-tre-donaldson","tag-trey-kaufman-renn"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200475","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=200475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}