You don’t want to overstate the importance of winning a conference opener that you were supposed to win, but when you’re facing the type of February that Louisville’s going to face, a win like Sunday’s feels a little bit more important than it would have in other years.
As it stands right now, I think there are six teams in the ACC that U of L is clearly better than, and Miami is one of them. If you’re looking at winning at least nine or 10 league games, you can’t lose to one of those six teams at home.