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FINAL: Miami drops first game of season to Drake Bulldogs 80-69

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The University of Miami men’s basketball team faced its first setback of the season Thursday afternoon, falling to the Drake Bulldogs (4-0), 80-69, at TD Arena in the first round of the 2024 Shriners Children’s Charleston Classic.

Graduate student Nijel Pack led the Hurricanes (3-1) in scoring with 17 points, while senior Brandon Johnson paced Miami on the boards, hauling in seven rebounds.

Drake got off to a hot start, taking an early 17-8 lead thanks in part to a 10-point first half from...

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Coach L needs a good showing this season or I think he'll consider pulling the plug. Just doesn't seem to relate to the players these past two years. Whether that's on them, him or some combination of both is irrelevant. What matters is he genuinely doesn't appear to be enjoying himself
 
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Outrebounded by Drake 35 to 23, Pack 4 for 13, not good.

Drake started four guys from D2 that came with the new coach.

Not resigning Omier made no sense.
 
Cane18 said:
Outrebounded by Drake 35 to 23, Pack 4 for 13, not good.

Drake started four guys from D2 that came with the new coach.

Not resigning Omier made no sense.
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Meanwhile Omier got 24/10 @ Baylor…wtf is Lynn Kidd bringing us that Omier couldn’t ?

We could’ve had:

PG: Nijel Pack
SG: Jalen Blackmon
SF: Matthew Cleveland
PF: Brandon Johnson
C: Norchad Omier

I mean….
 
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StevoBevo said:
Meanwhile Omier got 24/10 @ Baylor…wtf is Lynn Kidd bringing us that Omier couldn’t ?

We could’ve had:

PG: Nijel Pack
SG: Jalen Blackmon
SF: Matthew Cleveland
PF: Brandon Johnson
C: Norchad Omier

I mean….
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You didn’t contribute enough to the collective 🤣

In all seriousness, of course they wanted Omier back. But Omier wanted more than we were able to pay.
 
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