Larrañaga Wins 600th NCAA Career Game

Jim Larrañaga has joined an elite club in the NCAA…

The University of Miami’s victory over Pittsburgh over the weekend has given the 67-year-old Cuban American head coach of the Miami men’s basketball program 600 career wins.

Jim Larrañaga

Miami’s Davon Reed ended the game with 18 points, Bruce Brown added 17, and the Hurricanes held the Panthers without a field goal for almost 10 minutes in a 72-46 blowout.

Miami (12-4, 2-2 ACC) ended a two-game losing streak by outrebounding Pitt 37-23 and holding the Panthers (12-6, 1-4) to just 34 percent shooting (18-of-53).

The Hurricanes scored 14 straight during a run that spanned the end of the first half and the beginning of the second to get all the breathing room they would need, then continued to pour it on to hand the Panthers their worst loss in the 15-year history of the Petersen Events Center.

Miami players celebrated the victory with Larrañaga in the locker room after the game.

Larrañaga’s 600 wins place him at 47th in all-time NCAA victories and 14th among active coaches. Of those 14, five are in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, including four from the Atlantic Coast Conference.

In his career, Larrañaga has won 27 games at American International, 170 at Bowling Green University, 273 at George Mason University and 130 at Miami. He is one of 15 coaches all-time with 100 or more wins at three D-I schools, four of whom are actively coaching. He is also 11th among active coaches in total games coached (995) and ninth in most seasons coached (33).

Larrañaga has posted 10 20-win seasons over his career, topped by the 29-7 mark at Miami in 2012-13, when the Canes won the ACC regular season Championship, ACC Tournament championship and played in the NCAA Sweet 16.

Active DI coaches by victories (after games on Jan. 12):

  1. Mike Krzyzewski, Duke 1,057
  2. Jim Boeheim, Syracuse 894
  3. Bob Huggins, West Virginia 805
  4. Roy Williams, North Carolina 798
  5. Rick Pitino, Louisville 759
  6. Rick Byrd, Belmont 741
  7. Cliff Ellis, Coastal Caro. 721
  8. Jerry Slocum, Youngstown St. 718
  9. Larry Hunter, Western Caro. 685
  10. John Beilein, Michigan 676
  11. John Calipari, Kentucky 634
  12. Rick Barnes, Tennessee 627
  13. Bill Self, Kansas 607
  14. Jim Larranaga, Miami (FL) 600

Aguayo Kicks Field Goal with Seconds Left to Lift Florida State to Victory Over Boston College

Roberto Aguayo has earned hero status in Tallahassee, Florida…

The Latino placekicker made a 26-yard field goal with three seconds left in the game to give the Florida State Seminoles a 20-17 victory over Boston College on Saturday and help his team remain undefeated.

Roberto Aguayo

It was the Noles’ sixth win this season in a game in which they trailed or were tied in the second half.

The Seminoles, who have now won a school-record 27 consecutive games, have already locked up a berth in the ACC championship game but there are bigger goals remaining.

Florida State hosts the Florida Gators in the regular-season finale with a second consecutive undefeated season on the line. The ‘Noles have sat at No. 3 in the College Football Playoff rankings despite being the last undefeated team from a Power 5 conference.

Florida State (11-0, 8-0 ACC) had been plagued by slow starts throughout the season and the Seminoles went into the fourth quarter tied 17-17 with the Eagles. But with less than five minutes left, quarterback Winston helped engineer another game-winning drive.

“What I’m proud of is how they finished,” said the team’s coach Jimbo Fisher. “That’s what this team does. What people think of us is none of my business. That’s not our concern. We just play.”

Florida State took over on its own 26-yard line after Boston College missed a 43-yard field goal with 4:37 left and the Seminoles drove to the Eagles’ 8. Rashad Greene, who had two big drops in the first half, caught back-to-back passes for 11 and 15 yards to move the Seminoles within field goal range. The drive took 4:34 off the clock.

Aguayo, who missed a 40-yarder in the third quarter, said it was the first game-winner of his life.

“Yeah, it was to win the game but you can’t think of it like that because that’s when things will start going through your head, like, ‘Oh, this is a game winner I have to make it,'” Aguayo said.