The Miami Hurricanes are members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. The ACC added the Miami Hurricanes and Virginia Tech Hokies in 2004 and the Boston College Eagles in 2005. The Conference currently consists of twelve teams:

 

 

The ACC schedule works in three year cycles. Each team is assigned two permanent partners and nine rotating partners. Teams play their permanent partners in a home-and-away series each year. The rotating partners are split into three groups: three teams who are played in a home-and-away series, three teams who are played at home, and three teams who are played on the road. This creates an intra-conference schedule of 16 games against 11 Atlantic Coast Conference teams. The Miami Hurricanes’ two permanent partners are the Boston College Eagles and the Florida State Seminoles. The rotating partner groups are rotated every three years. Awesomeseating.com is your go-to ticket broker for ACC basketball. ACC schools have captured 10 NCAA Championships; the North Carolina Tar Heels have won 4 times, the Duke Blue Devils have won three; the North Carolina State Wolf Pack has won two, and the Maryland Terrapins have won one.

 

The University of Miami Hurricanes joined the Atlanta Coast Conference in 2004. Basketball has had an uneven history at UM. The university dropped the program after the 1972 season. Citing “inadequate facilities, sagging attendance, and serious financial losses,” the Board of Trustees dropped the basketball program entirely. It wasn’t revived until 1985. The team spent 5 years getting its act together before being invited to join the expansion of the Big East. Over the next decade head coach Leonard Hamilton brought the team to national respectability, producing three consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances (1998–2000), including a Sweet Sixteen appearance in 2000.

 

Hamilton left at the end of the 2000 season for a lifetime’s worth of humiliation coaching the 2000-2001 Washington Wizards of the NBA. Hamilton’s replacement, Perry Clark led the Miami Hurricanes to a best-ever 24 wins and a #5 seed in the NCAA Tournament in 2002. The team fell in the first round to the University of Missouri, 93-80. The success was short-lived. Clark was unable to follow up on his initial success and was dismissed in 2004. He was replaced Frank Haith. Haith’s first three seasons seemed like more of the same to Miami Hurricanes fans as the team went a collective 46-49. But in 2007-08 the team experienced a breakthrough. After being picked as possible ACC cellar-dwellers for 2007-08, the Hurricanes opened the season with a 12-game win streak. Miami finished the year 23-11 (8-8 in the Atlantic Coast Conference) and was invited to the NCAA Tournament’s South Regional in Houston, Texas. In the first round the Miami Hurricanes defeated the St. Mary’s College Gaels, 78-64. The Hurricanes fell in the second round to the University of Texas Longhorns in a thrilling 75-72 heart stopper.