When UConn and Miami tip off in the 2023 Final Four on Saturday, it will mark yet another meeting between two former conference foes in a series that dates back eight decades. The two schools, coming and going out of the Big East for very different reasons, will meet in the NCAA tournament for the first time. Even though it's the first time between the two schools in NCAA tournament play, Miami head coach Jim Larrañaga has his own history in March with the Huskies.
It’s been basically 20 years since Miami, a Big East conference member since 1991, bolted for the ACC in one of the first major rounds of conference realignment.