Associated Press

Charleston Southern Buccaneers (1-7) at Miami Hurricanes (3-3)

Coral Gables, Florida; Saturday, 2 p.m. EST

BETMGM SPORTSBOOK LINE: Hurricanes -23.5; over/under is 151.5

BOTTOM LINE: Charleston Southern visits Miami (FL) after Taje’ Kelly scored 20 points in Charleston Southern’s 91-67 loss to the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

The Hurricanes have gone 3-0 in home games. Miami (FL) averages 84.5 points while outscoring opponents by 11.8 points per game.

The Buccaneers have gone 0-4 away from home. Charleston Southern is 0-5 against opponents with a winning record.

Miami (FL) scores 84.5 points, 5.5 more per game than the 79.0 Charleston Southern allows. Charleston Southern averages 6.9 made 3-pointers per game this season, 0.4 fewer makes per game than Miami (FL) gives up.

TOP PERFORMERS: Nijel Pack is scoring 15.2 points per game and averaging 2.5 rebounds for the Hurricanes.

RJ Johnson averages 2.1 made 3-pointers per game for the Buccaneers, scoring 10.1 points while shooting 44.1% from beyond the arc.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.

The Miami Heat’s fanbase is starting to grow tired of guard Terry Rozier’s lackluster play.

After landing with the Heat at last year’s trade deadline, Rozier appeared well on track for a strong campaign. Instead, the former Charlotte Hornet has only scored 20 or more points once this regular season.

If the Heat decide to listen to their community and cut ties with him, the fanbase has a perfect replacement idea. Bleacher Report’s Jake Fischer reported the Chicago Bulls are willing to part with former No. 2 pick and unpredictable guard Lonzo Ball.

“No surprise, then, that Bulls executives, according to league sources, have been messaging to rival front offices that they are willing to discuss the majority of their roster in trade talks leading up to the Feb. 6 trade deadline,” Fischer wrote on The Stein Line. “Most notably, sources say, Chicago has expressed a desire to move LaVine, Vučević and Ball.”

Heat fans wasted no time calling for the front office to acquire Ball, with one fan writing, “Miami should cut their loses with Rozier and try to make this deal.” The reply gathered more than 100,000 views, and few disagreed with the idea in the comments.

Ball undoubtedly fits the mold the Heat are searching for in a backcourt partner for Tyler Herro, but the health concerns loom large for the former Los Angeles Laker.

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Anthony Pasciolla works as a contributing writer to Miami Heat On SI. He can be reached at ampasciolla@gmail.com or follow him on X @AnthonyPasci.

The Week 13 loss at Green Bay was just too much for fans of the Miami Dolphins to bear on their own. They took to social media to voice their discontent after yet another late season, cold-weather loss.

The Miami Dolphins lost against the Green Bay Packers, 30-17, in the cold and (some) snow. They were looking to change narratives, but nothing changed. They were embarrassed in prime time on a national holiday.

Things could not have gotten much worse Thursday night.

One fan on social media said he wants to see the National Football League ban the Dolphins from playing on national television at night. The embarrassment that @joboken5 felt could easily be said for many Dolphins fans across the base.

Zach, a university student, said the Dolphins loss ruined the holiday joy of their fan base. With the rest of the winter holidays coming up and the Dolphins scheduled for two more cold-weather games, the holidays could be at further peril.

@cujoknows believes the season, when finished with cold-weather games, against better than average teams, is nothing more than a dumpster fire. It is hard to disagree with him, when the team is 0-for-cold weather games during the Mike McDaniel era.

Cujo thinks the Dolphins have their best shot at winning games when the temperature is over 60 degrees and teams have a below .500 winning percentage. The way the last two seasons have gone, we cannot find fault with the statement.

Zachapp posted his dismay at Washington’s muffed punt. He went so far as to call the Dolphins embarrassing.

UD from Utah, a/k/a @utahdolphin, as opposed to the UD from Miami named Udonis Haslem, believes the Dolphins are the softest team in the NFL. All UD wants, according to his profile is for the Dolphins to win a championship during his lifetime. Let’s hope he lives a long life and gets to see that happen.

A self-proclaimed Jets fan had snuck his way into the Dolphins timeline. He is this week’s Captain Obvious, but he really has little room to talk.

The Dolphins might not be able to win cold-weather games as a warm-weather team, vur what does it say for the Jets? The Jets play in a cold-weather climate and still can’t win at home.