The Miami basketball team’s appearance in the 2018 Wooden Legacy could be vital to their success later in the 2018-19 season. Miami has not scheduled a very challenging non-conference slate over the past few seasons.
Last year the Hurricanes most challenging non-conference games came in the Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu and at Minnesota in the ACC-Big Ten Challenge. Their only non-conference win over a Power Five school in 2017-18 was at Minnesota.
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Because they lost to New Mexico State in the Semifinals in Hawaii, Miami did not play one school from a Power Five Conference in the Diamond Head Classic.