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NC State hosts a more defensive-minded Miami team on Saturday

The Miami Hurricanes have seen nothing in the way of good luck this season, as Jim Larranaga’s crew is already a mash unit a little over a month in. Star point guard Chris Lykes has not played since suffering an ankle injury in early December, while 2020 rotation stalwarts Sam Waardenburg and Rodney Miller are out for the year with injuries. Veteran win Kameron McGusty is also banged up and didn’t play in Miami’s last game.

Few programs could withstand that level of attrition, though Miami is at least hanging in there, and it has lost its last three ACC games (at VT, vs.