Miami Hurricanes (26-8, 14-6 ACC) vs. Purdue Boilermakers (28-8, 17-7 Big Ten)<\/p>\n
St. Louis; Sunday, 12:10 p.m. EDT<\/p>\n
BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE:<\/a> 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 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. 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 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 is averaging 19 points and 6.6 rebounds for the Hurricanes. Tre Donaldson 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<\/a> and data from Sportradar<\/a>.<\/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":143079,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3108,42616,8294,111,54256,22867,1882,28,28625,3156,22866,2537,123,125,5079,62425,124,2519,92676,110],"class_list":["post-200562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-basketball","tag-braden-smith","tag-college-basketball","tag-college-sports","tag-data-skrive","tag-ernest-udeh-jr","tag-fl-state-wire","tag-florida","tag-in-state-wire","tag-indiana","tag-malik-reneau","tag-mens-college-basketball","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-hurricanes","tag-miami-hurricanes-mens-basketball","tag-miami-news","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-purdue-boilermakers-mens-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200562","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=200562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200562\/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=200562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}