“We definitely came into the season wanting to press higher up the field and turn teams over more often,” Miami head coach Sarah Barnes said to Miami Athletics. “That was great execution of what we’ve been working on.”

“I thought it was a really good team effort,” Miami director of track and field and cross country Amy Deem said of her team’s success. “It was a great outdoor opener. We had some good competition with the Big Ten and Purdue, and South Florida coming down.”

The Miami Hurricanes had little response as they were handily beaten by their in-state rival Florida Gators at Mark Light Field Sunday afternoon.

The victory was Jim Larrañaga’s 221st as head coach of Miami, making him the men’s basketball program’s winningest coach of all time. The record previously belonged to Bruce Hale, who won 220 games as Miami’s head coach from 1954-1967.

Miami men’s basketball will play the penultimate game of its regular-season marathon Wednesday night against the Boston College Eagles at Conte Forum in Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts.

“What a day for Isaiah,” Miami director of track and field and cross country Amy Deem said. “It was a great day for him, and he really stepped up in both events. He started the day off right in the high jump.”

“It’s been a pleasure to get to know them, it’s been a pleasure being around them,” Miami head coach Jim Larrañaga said of his senior class. “And it’s been very very enjoyable to have the kind of season that we’ve had so far because we’ve enjoyed success as a team.

“The KFC Yum! Center has not been kind to us in the last half-dozen years, and it was very important for us to play well and to get the win,” Larrañaga said. “Certainly, Louisville was equal to the task and came at us very, very hard, especially in the second half.”

“Things are coming together, and athletes are stepping up as the season goes on,” Deem said. “It is a slow process and as coaches we need to help them figure it out by the ACC Championships.”

“We struggled defensively to keep pressure on them,” Miami head coach Jim Larrañaga said. “I thought we did a good job early, but we clearly were not able to defend them the way we would’ve needed to.”