CanesToday Talk: It’s Basketball Time In The Sunshine State (FSU Hate Week)
The wait is over for Miami Basketball because tonight the Hurricanes begin the 2023-24 college basketball season with a home opener in Coral Gables. At 7:00 PM in Watsco Center, Miami will host NJIT out of the American East in the first regular season game of the new chase for a national championship. ACCNX and ESPN+ will televise the game.
Here are other things to know about the game and what’s ahead for the day, including the usual Monday schedule of events for Miami Football:
3 Facts about NJIT Basketball
- NJIT was picked ninth in the American East preseason poll.
- The Highlanders went 15-15 a year ago, which they did not make the NCAA Tournament
- NJIT lost in an exhibition versus Seton Hall the final score was 68-60 NJIT did put up a fight though.
Miami MBB opens as 23.5-point favorite vs. NJIT
Miami goes into its season-opening matchup vs. NJIT as an overwhelming favorite — 23.5-point favorites, to be exact.
The opening lines are out for college basketball’s first string of games this week, starting with the Hurricanes on Monday vs. the Highlander. Early lines listed UK as a 23.5-point favorite, dropping a point leading up to tomorrow’s matchup.
The over/under opened at 143.5 points.
ESPN’s Matchup Predictor gives Miami a 95.4% chance to defeat NJIT to open the season.
Tip-off is scheduled for 7:00 p.m. ET at Watsco Center, with the game broadcast will be on the ESPN+ app, or you can catch it on ACCNX.
The Hurricanes opened its exhibition schedule with a victory vs. TCNJ (111-54). Now, the real fun begins against the Highlanders on Monday.
What do you think, Hurricane’s nation? Will you be betting on the Canes tomorrow night?
Miami vs. FSU time has been announced
It’s officially Florida State vs. Miami week.
While matchups of yesteryear featured two teams with national championship aspirations, this year’s lost further luster after the Hurricanes fell to 6-3 on the season (2-3 ACC) in a 20-6 loss to the NC State Wolfpack.
Meanwhile, Florida State heads into the game 9-0 (7-0 ACC) with its spot in the ACC Championship Game officially clinched following its 24-7 road win over the Pitt Panthers.
The game, which was time-optioned ahead of this past weekend’s slate, has been announced as a 3:30 p.m. kickoff in Tallahassee set to be televised on ABC.
Miami opens as a two-score underdog vs. Florida State
According to the FanDuel Sportsbooks, Miami has opened as a 14-point underdog against the Seminoles with the over/under set at 51.5. FSU is still undefeated (9-0) with them coming off of a scary first half, but they ended up still getting the win against Pittsburgh, they ended up winning 24-7. Kickoff at Doak is scheduled for Saturday, Nov 11 at 3:30 p.m. EST on ABC.
So far this season, Miami (6-3) is 4-4-0 against the spread, failing to cover the spread in all of the most recent losses to Nc State, UNC, and Georgia Tech. UM also failed to cover the spread when they hosted Bethune Cookman in Week 3. Meanwhile, FSU is 6-2-0 against the spread this season and is undefeated at home.
Looking at ESPN’s Matchup Predictor, the analytics are giving FSU an 85.0 percent chance to beat Miami.
Tyler Van Dyke disappoints yet again against loss to NC State, is it time to change quarterbacks?
Points were at a premium Saturday night at chilly Carter-Finley Stadium. Physicality was not. The Hurricanes have not scored a touchdown in seven & a half quarters. Um Josh Gattis is that you?
Miami and NC State traded takeaways and three-and-outs, each defense stifling the opposing offense with every passing series. But the Wolfpack landed the final blow.
All three of those takeaways were from Miami Hurricanes quarterback Tyler Van Dyke.
Van Dyke played arguably the worst game of his Miami career. The quarterback was not dialed in from the start, with Van Dyke completing 21-of-38 passes for 173 yards and three interceptions, with zero touchdowns, so do you think it’s time for a change?
Van Dyke still showed he is not that guy, here is an example. Miami was driving down field and got into the red zone and Miami ran a wheel route to Jacolby George in the back of the end zone, and he did have a step on the corner, and yet again Van Dyke throws the ball underthrown, to lead to an interception. So, I don’t get why we keep running this guy out here.
So is it time to change it up and try to put in Emory Williams or have Jacurri Brown get a snap in there, because something has to change.
This should be a great week besides the heart-breaking loss to NC State, but we go to put that behind us because we still got a tuff schedule ahead of us.
Let CanesToday know what you think in the comments.
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