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Jim Larranaga calls Jordan Miller the most underrated player in the country

IMG_6598by:Nick Kosko•02/18/23•

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After No. 15 Miami took down North Carolina 80-72 Monday night, head coach Jim Larranaga called Jordan Miller the most underrated player in the country. Miller played all 40 minutes against the Tar Heels and led the team in scoring. He finished with 24 points, 11 rebounds and two assists.

It was just the latest big performance from Miller, something Larranga wanted the rest of the country to notice.

“But what I really do like is we were 22-for-26 from the foul line and we had Nijel Pack and Jordan Miller, both in the 20s,” Larranaga said. “Jordan with 24 points and 11 rebounds, the guy is great. And Nijel Pack with 23. I’ve said this over and over again. I think he is the most underrated, Jordan is the most underrated player in the country because the amount of things he does well on the court makes him a very hard matchup for anybody.”

Pack added 23 points, two rebounds and one assist in the win over the Tar Heels. With Miller and Pack leading the way, Miami improved to 21-5 on the season. If Miller keeps getting overlooked, perhaps Miami can feed into the underdog role as a whole.

“There’s one stat I like a lot,” Larranaga said when asked if the team is overlooked. “I don’t know if you guys have seen it. But it was true on the weekend — now teams have won or lost. In the last 37 games, if you look at all of the best records of the teams in the ACC in ACC competition, we have got the best record of any team in the league in the last 37 games. 

“We are 27-10, and that is the best record over like the last two years plus.  That is pretty incredible to me, knowing how good this league has been forever. You can go back 50 years, and the league was great. Forty years, the league was great. And it is always disappointing to me when I read that our league is not as good as some of the others in the country, because I definitely don’t believe that and nobody has proven that to me yet.”

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Miami returns to the floor at home against Wake Forest Saturday at 2:00 p.m. ET.