Each year, Miami and all 14 other Atlantic Coast Confrence basketball teams play an 18-game Confrence schedule, usually starting in late December or early January, and ending in early March right before the ACC Tournament. That appears to be the only thing in common between in common between a team’s conference slate each year.
Whether you look at the schedule on an early October evening in anticipation of hoops season on the horizon, or you are sitting at lunch with a friend discussing the upcoming schedule, the same thing always comes up: “Why are we only playing this team once this year?