Purdue-Miami has an over\/under of 147.5<\/a>.<\/p>\nPurdue currently has the most efficient offense in KenPom history and Miami will have to play fast to try and score enough to keep up with Purdue.<\/p>\n
Win or lose, Miami is going to have to try and keep up with an offense that\u2019s done nothing but score points all season.<\/p>\n
Miami\u2019s size and athleticism will try to contest with Purdue experience and skill.<\/p>\n
Trey Kaufman-Renn, Braden Smith, and Fletcher Loyer were spectacular for Purdue on Friday. The three seniors scored 65 points in Purdue\u2019s win over Queens.<\/p>\n
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For Miami, if it\u2019s a half court game about shooting and execution, the game will favor Purdue entirely. Instead, Miami will want to make the game fast and messy, using its big guards to challenge and play through whistles and physicality on the perimeter. No one that played for Miami on Friday is under 6-4. <\/p>\n
Miami is dominate team on both sides of the glass. It has a top forty offense and defense. It knows how to play basketball and its capable of bullying teams with its physicality. That will be a good test for Purdue who wants to play in the half court and with space. Smith and Loyer still give up size to most back courts.<\/p>\n
But it will be familiar races that lead Miami.<\/p>\n
Malik Reneau is Miami\u2019s leading scorer after transferring to Miami this season after spending his career at rival Indiana. <\/p>\n
Miami\u2019s lead guard is Tre Donaldson, a guard that transferred from Michigan. The two Big Ten exports now lead Miami in scoring and combine for nearly 40 points a game. Purdue being able to handle the two familiar faces will be key to contain Miami\u2019s offense. If it can do that, the points will be there at the other end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Purdue just had one of the most dominant offensive performances in NCAA Tournament history in its first round…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201078,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[42616,92847,22866,123,125,124,92845,2519,92846],"class_list":["post-201077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-braden-smith","tag-fletcher-loyer","tag-malik-reneau","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-ncaa-tournament-history","tag-purdue-boilermakers","tag-purdue-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201077","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=201077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}