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Hurricanes set for Purdue in ACC/Big Ten Challenge with Chris Lykes’ status uncertain

The Miami Hurricanes men’s basketball team faces Purdue at Watsco Center in a 5 p.m. tip Tuesday as part of the ACC/Big Ten Challenge.

“He met with a doctor [Monday] morning. I haven’t gotten the report yet,” UM coach Jim Larrañaga said in a Monday afternoon video conference with reporters after Lykes missed Monday practice to get treatment.

“I won’t know [his status for Tuesday] until I get the report. The doctors look at it very differently than I do. A doctor looks at it as, ‘Is he healthy enough and can he actually run and jump on the foot?