National Basketball Association
Alabama 96, Miami-Florida 64
When: 6:30 PM ET, Sunday, November 28, 2021
Where: HP Field House, Orlando, Florida
Officials:
# Rick Crawford, # DJ Cartensen, # Tyler Kumpf
Attendance:
3127
By Field Level Media
Reserve freshman point guard JD Davison provided a spark with 13 points and a game-high 10 assists as the 10th-ranked Alabama Crimson Tide caught fire and rolled past the Miami Hurricanes, 96-64, in the last game of the ESPN Events Invitational on Sunday night at Kissimmee, Fla.
Keon Ellis scored a career-high 22 points as Alabama (6-1), which trailed by nine points with about seven minutes left in the first half and missed 10 of its first 11 3-pointers, finished 2-1 in this tournament.
Miami (4-3) was led by Kameron McGusty, who had 21 points and 10 rebounds. The Hurricanes also got 14 points from Isaiah Wong and 12 from Charlie Moore. They went 1-2 in the tournament.
Alabama's offense featured two other double-figure scorers: Jaden Shackelford (15 points) and Juwan Gary (13).
The Crimson Tide shot 53.6 percent from the field, including 16-for-30 on 3-pointers (53.3 percent). They made 15 of their final 19 shots from distance.
Miami shot 46 percent from the floor but just 4-for-17 on 3-pointers (23.5 percent).
Alabama also outrebounded Miami, 42-23.
Miami was up early, taking a 27-18 lead on a McGusty jumper with 6:22 left in the first half. The shot capped an 8-0 Hurricanes run.
But Alabama then closed the half on a 15-3 run, converting its final two 3-point attempts of the half, including one by Jahvon Quinerly at the buzzer. That gave Alabama a 33-30 advantage, and it produced the seventh lead change of a very evenly played opening 20 minutes.
Miami shot 40.7 percent in the first half, and Alabama shot 42.4 percent. Miami shot 12.5 percent on 3-pointers (1-for-8), and Alabama shot 23.1 percent (3-for-13).
McGusty led all first-half scorers with 10 points, and Davison kept Alabama in the game early by going 4-for-5 from the floor with two assists.
Alabama started the second half on a 7-0 run. Wong finally hit a drive off glass, ending a five-minute Miami points drought.
Another Wong layup cut Alabama's lead to 40-34, but that was as close as the Hurricanes got the rest of the night.
--Field Level Media
Top Game Performances
Miami-Florida |
|
Alabama |
Kameron McGusty 21 |
Scoring |
Keon Ellis 22 |
Isaiah Wong 3 |
Assists |
JD Davison 10 |
Kameron McGusty 10 |
Rebounds |
Charles Bediako 8 |
Isaiah Wong 6 |
Free Throws Made |
Juwan Gary 3 |
Kameron McGusty 2 |
Steals |
JD Davison 1 |
Jordan Miller 1 |
Blocks |
Darius Miles 2 |
Team Stats Summary
Team |
Points |
FG% |
3PM-3PA |
FTM-FTA |
Assists |
Rebounds |
Blocks |
Steals |
Turnovers |
Miami-Florida
|
64 |
46.0 |
4-17 |
14-20 |
6 |
23 |
2 |
8 |
13 |
Alabama
|
96 |
53.6 |
16-30 |
6-11 |
22 |
42 |
3 |
4 |
13 |