UM men take on Va. Tech, look to end four-game losing streak

After a pair of doubledigit road losses at Duke and North Carolina, the Miami Hurricanes men’s basketball team is back home Tuesday night at 8 p.m. to face Virginia Tech at the Watsco Center.

Starting guards Chris Lykes (groin) and Kam McGusty (back spasms) sat out the 94-71 loss to the Tar Heels and their status for Tuesday’s game is day-to-day.

Lykes and McGusty are two of the team’s top three scorers, so their absence is difficult for an already-thin UM squad to overcome.

Freshmen Isaiah Wong

and Anthony Walker

were thrown in to the starting lineup against North Carolina. Wong scored 19 points and Walker had 14. The Hurricanes (10-9, 2-7 ACC) have lost six of their seven games in January.

Virginia Tech (14-6, 5-4 ACC) is led by redshirt freshman Landers Nolley,

who averages 17.9 points per game.

The last time the teams met, in the second round of the 2019 ACC Tournament, the Hokies won 71-56.

ETC.

NFL: Andrew Berry ,32 who left Cleveland’s front office last year to work in Philadelphia, agreed to become the Browns’ new general manager and executive vice president, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press. Berry will get a fiveyear deal. Berry will be the second black GM currently working in the NFL. Miami’s Chris Grier had been the league’s only minority GM . ... Minnesota Vikings head coach Mike Zimmer

promoted his son Adam,

and appointed Andre Patterson as co-defensive coordinators.

MLB: The Pittsburgh Pirates sent two-time Gold Glove outfielder Starling Marte, 31, a 2016 All-Star to the Arizona Diamondbacks for prospects Liover Peguero and pitcher Brennan Malone. The Diamondbacks will receive $1.5 million from the Pirates on Sept. 15 as part of the deal, while Pittsburgh obtained $250,000 in international signing bonus allocation . ... Free agent outfielder Nicholas Castellanos ,a graduate of Archbishop McCarthy High School, agreed to a $64 million, four-year deal with the Cincinnati Reds.

Soccer: Bukayo Saka and Eddie Nketiah scored to lead Arsenal’s 2-1 win over Bournemouth to secure a place in the fifth round of the FA Cup.

Figure skating: Nathan Chen won his fourth consecutive U.S. Figure Skating Championships men’s gold medal late Sunday in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ninth man to earn at least that many U.S. championships in a row, and the first since Brian Boitano completed that kind of quad in 1988.