Hurricanes to face Temple at 4-team event in Brooklyn

The Miami Hurricanes men’s basketball team will play Temple on Dec. 17 at Barclays Center in Brooklyn, N.Y.

The game will be part of the inaugural Air Force Reserve Basketball Hall of Fame Invitational, which also will feature Providence versus Florida and Iona versus Princeton that same day. Starting times and television broadcast information will be announced at a later date.

Miami is 2-2 all time against Temple. The two teams haven’t played since March 31, 2015, when the Hurricanes pulled out a 60-57 win in the semifinals of the NIT Tournament at Madison Square Garden.

UM is coming off a disappointing season after being left out of the NCAA and NIT tournaments. The injury-plagued Hurricanes, who finished 14-18, won only five games in conference play as coach Jim Larrañaga notched his first losing season since he went 9-18 in his first year at George Mason in 1997-98.

Miami played the entire season without standout power forward Dewan Hernandez — the top returning player from the previous year — after he was ruled ineligible by the NCAA. Last month, Hernandez was taken in the second round of the NBA draft by the defending champion Toronto Raptors.

Larrañaga is optimistic about Miami’s future with several of its leading players set to return, including guards Chris Lykes and D.J. Vasiljevic, plus the addition of guard Kameron McGusty, an Oklahoma transfer who had to sit out last season to fulfill NCAA requirements. Also set to join the Hurricanes are two top-200 signees: guard Isaiah Wong of New Jersey and forward Anthony Walker of New Hampshire.

Temple went 23-10 (13-5 American Athletic Conference) last season and reached the NCAA Tournament.

Tickets go on sale beginning July 12 at 10 a.m. on Ticketmaster.com.