CORAL GABLES, Fla. (AP) — Jasmyn Roberts was recruited by Virginia Tech, so the Hokies realized that she was capable of remaining a significant-time participant.
Miami was thrilled that she proved them suitable.
Roberts scored a occupation-ideal 23 points, Haley Cavinder additional 19 and Miami held off No. 9 Virginia Tech 77-66 on Sunday, the Hurricanes’ next consecutive get over a rated opponent.
“Jas is the most favourable player on our team,” Hurricanes mentor Katie Meier claimed. “We do an analysis of the team, we have an expert occur in and basically, we just can’t get with out Jas. She provides so significantly. She uplifts her teammates all the time. Even when she was not receiving the minutes she wanted, she even now is the coronary heart and soul.”
Roberts was 8 for 12 from the field, 5 of 7 from 3-stage selection for the Hurricanes (10-6, 3-2 Atlantic Coast Convention), who received their 3rd straight match. Cavinder was 6 for 12 from the discipline, and Miami shot 54%.
The Hurricanes received for only the next time in their last 16 games against top rated-10 opponents. They are now 15-89 all-time in these types of video games, and enable a single such possibility slip absent on Dec. 29 with a decline to then-No. 5 Notre Dame. They are 3- because.
“After we virtually conquer Notre Dame, we’re like: ‘OK, we can play with any one. We’re almost there,’” Roberts claimed. “After that activity, we begun having extra self-assured and jelling additional.”
Elizabeth Kitley scored 20 for Virginia Tech (13-3, 3-3), which had beat Miami five consecutive periods. But the Hokies led for only 1:49 on Sunday, the Hurricanes forcing them to enjoy from guiding nearly all afternoon.
Georgia Amoore extra 13 for the Hokies.
“Give Miami credit score,” Hokies mentor Kenny Brooks reported. “They ended up tougher than we have been. They acquired to their spots less difficult and we just did not participate in effectively. We didn’t have that concentration that we required to gain a recreation like this on the highway. They’re a actual physical basketball staff and we didn’t tackle their physicality like we wanted to.”
Roberts, who arrived into Sunday averaging 6.3 details, produced back again-to-again jumpers — 1 of them a 3-pointer — midway by the fourth quarter to turn a 1-point Miami guide into a 6-level edge.
Even while Miami led for most of the way, it hardly ever particularly ran absent from Virginia Tech.
Amoore built a 3-pointer to tie the sport at 41 early in the third, and Miami right away responded with an 8- run to restore the 8-issue edge — Roberts building a pair of 3s in that tiny burst.
It was 60-54 Miami likely into the fourth, and which is when a terrible mix hit the Hurricanes. They couldn’t rating and could not halt fouling.
Virginia Tech’s first four factors of the fourth quarter all came from the line, all of them from Kitley. She missed a free of charge toss that would have put the Hokies inside of just one, but Virginia Tech obtained the rebound and Kitley ended up with an uncomplicated layup that tied that game at 60 with 7:47 remaining.
That is when Cavinder and Roberts manufactured guaranteed Miami wouldn’t get rid of the guide. Cavinder designed a 3 for a 63-60 guide, Roberts followed with those two jumpers and the Hurricanes led the rest of the way.
Virginia Tech missed its very last 10 photographs.
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Virginia Tech: The Hokies’ streak of consecutive weeks in the best 10 of the AP Top 25 will very likely stop at 6 — just after being there only when ahead of this season in software record. The Hokies have by no means expended an full period in the Leading 25 they won’t be in any threat of slipping out this week.
Miami: The Hurricanes are 3- considering that the calendar flipped to 2023, two of these in opposition to rated teams. Miami topped No. 22 North Carolina on Thursday.
UP Subsequent
Virginia Tech: Hosts Louisville on Thursday, the Hokies’ only recreation in a 10-day span.
Miami: At Georgia Tech on Thursday.
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