{"id":445943,"date":"2026-11-03T08:30:20","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445943\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T08:30:20","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T08:30:20","slug":"final-florida-77-miami-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445943\/","title":{"rendered":"FINAL: Florida 77, Miami 67"},"content":{"rendered":"

What Happened
\nGAINESVILLE, Fla.\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0Senior forward Thomas Haugh<\/a> scored 17 points and top-ranked Florida smothered 14th-ranked Miami with defense in the second half on the way to a grimy 77-67\u00a0season-opening victory Monday night at Benchmark International Arena.<\/p>\n

Haugh, who hit six of his 13 shots and four of eight 3-point attempts, also grabbed 10 rebounds, dished four assists and had a pair of steals. Senior center Rueben Chinyelu<\/a> grabbed 14 rebounds and blocked three shots before fouling out late.\u00a0The Florida bench, which struggled to score in the team’s two exhibitions, had 22 points.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Miami was led by point guard Acaden Lewis with 24 points.\u00a0The Hurricanes, though, made just three field goals over the game’s final 12 minutes.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Gators shot 43%\u00a0for the game, yet went 11 of 26 from the arc (42.3). The latter went a long way toward countering an atrocious 55% on 35 free-throw attempts, with the misses allowing the Hurricanes to stay in the game.\u00a0The UF defense, though held UM to just 35% overall and 4-for-17 from long distance.\u00a0 \n<\/p>\n

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\nUF fifth-year guard Denzel Aberdeen throws down a first-half dunk Monday in Tampa.\u00a0 <\/p>\n

Turning Point\u00a0
\nUM started the second half much better than UF, cutting a 12-point deficit to just two, at 53-51, with 15 minutes remaining. The Gators, though, used a quick run of seven straight points, including back-to-back 3s from backup rookie forward Domen Petrovic<\/a>\u00a0(6 points, 3 rebounds in 11 minutes) and junior point guard Boogie Fland<\/a>, to take the margin back out to nine. It got no closer than six after that (and only once).\u00a0
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\nStaggering Statistic
\nThe Gators would have made this one a lot easier on themselves if they were just poor at the free-throw line, instead of awful: 20 of 35, including four missed front ends of the seven-foul bonus. The Canes, despite their field-goal shooting woes, stuck around by going a solid 21 of 30 at the line.\u00a0
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\nUp Next
\nFlorida (1-0) is back home Thursday night to face Jacksonville (1-0). The Dolphins crushed Trinity College of Jacksonville, a member of the National Collegiate Christian College Association, 105-61 in their opener Monday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Email senior writer\u00a0Chris Harry<\/a> at\u00a0chrish@gators.ufl.edu<\/a>. Find his story archives\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What Happened GAINESVILLE, Fla.\u00a0 \u2013\u00a0Senior forward Thomas Haugh scored 17 points and top-ranked Florida smothered 14th-ranked Miami with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-445943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445943","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=445943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}