Larranaga turned the Miami basketball program around immediately when he took over for the 2011-12 season. Miami went 20-13, and 9-7 in the ACC in Larranaga’s first season. The Hurricanes split their games in the ACC and NIT tournaments in his first season in Coral Gables.
The Miami basketball team has had to play all nine games this season without Hernandez while he awaits an eligibility issue. There were reports that Hernandez might have been paid in relation to the Addidas scandal that Miami and Larranaga were implicated in last year and eventually cleared of any wrongdoing.