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Nothing do with Lucas, it stems from the ACC adding teams and decreasing conference play from 20 to 18 games.

UNC doesn’t have a home game against NC State for the first time since 1919. Each ACC school has one in-conference opponent they won’t play.

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No Duke-Miami matchup in ACC's 18-game men's basketball schedule

The ACC announced its second set of home-and-away partners after announcing earlier this month that it would cut a 20-game men's basketball schedule to 18.
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QuattroCane said:
I saw a reference that Duke wouldn't play Miami this year because of what Lucas did?
Can someone fill me in?
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No one gets to select their conference games. This is more of a weird coincidence, caused by the ACC adding teams and decreasing the number of conference games, as was stated by a previous poster. I don't understand the why of it, there should be 20 conference games, that's been the standard for years and it allows for everyone to face each other at least once.
 
Canedude08 said:
No one gets to select their conference games. This is more of a weird coincidence, caused by the ACC adding teams and decreasing the number of conference games, as was stated by a previous poster. I don't understand the why of it, there should be 20 conference games, that's been the standard for years and it allows for everyone to face each other at least once.
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18 is a good amount and still let's everyone play everyone at least once. We have match ups vs BC and FSU twice this season. One could have been cut so we played Duke.
 
LPCanes26 said:
18 is a good amount and still let's everyone play everyone at least once. We have match ups vs BC and FSU twice this season. One could have been cut so we played Duke.
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There will be rivalry games and they want those games to be home and home. Each ACC school gets two of those. UNC and Duke will always play twice per season(ESPN would NEVER allow the ACC to limit that to once per year).
 
Sumcane said:
Same, don't remember the exact one but is was one where a Mensah conversation prompted Pete to bring it up
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Just because he brought it up, doesn't mean it's anywhere near rational. Everything is a conspiracy if you don't know how anything works. The conference will always have UNC and Duke play twice per season, so that means that every school will have at least one of those rivalry matchups on their calendar. The ACC then threw in another rivalry matchup, just to even it out. You could argue that every school should only have one rivalry matchup per season, but honestly, I would be more in favor of expanding the conference slate out to 22 games, and having more of those matchups, instead of less. Most schools have far too much OOC filler as is.

By the way, why would Duke be afraid to face a first year HC, with a roster that most experts saw as firmly in the middle of the pack coming into the season? Honestly, Miami has benefited greatly from this conference slate, this team hasn't had to play multiple top end teams twice, as was the case before expansion, with likely would have led to our depth being tested. The dilution that has been expansion has helped Miami, especially in year one of the Lucas era, where he desperately needed a solid year, to show proof of concept.
 
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