REPORT: Miami Basketball Has Opponent Set For the 2025 ACC/SEC Challenge
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Matchups are set for the ACC/SEC Challenge, and the Miami Hurricanes have a difficult opponent waiting for them in SEC country.
Jai Lucas and the Miami Hurricanes will travel to Oxford, MS, to take on the Ole Miss Rebels in the ACC/SEC Challenge. Not only is this a perfect quad-one opponent for the Canes, but it also adds to what the season can be in Lucas's first year coaching.
UM's ACC Schedule has already been released, and not playing the Duke Blue Devils is a sad sight to see. They will still be playing a team that reached the Sweet 16 with the Rebels. The Rebels are returning several talented players and have also added key ones. They won't look to regress from what they were able to do this previous season. They look to improve, and against the Hurricanes, this will only enhance where the season can go.
NEWS: Matchups are set for the 2025 ACC/SEC Challenge, per sources.
— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) June 11, 2025
UF @ Duke
UNC @ UK
UVA @ Texas
NC St @ Auburn
Clemson @ Bama
LVille @ Ark
OU @ Wake
SMU @ Vandy
A&M @ Pitt
Miss St @ GT
Miami @ Ole Miss
LSU @ BC
VT@SC
Tenn @ Cuse
Mizzou @ ND
UGA @ FSUhttps://t.co/SYoZLlz1Fd
Lucas's goal is the make the NCAA Tournament and a massive potential quad-one win against the SEC would be the perfect way to start his coaching season.
“I want to see us improve throughout the whole year, that we aren’t the same team in March that you saw in November; that we got better as you watched us play and you knew we were competing and fighting to win every possession that we could,” Lucas said. “And to that end, [I hope] we have the opportunity and the chance to make the NCAA Tournament and play for a national championship... That’s all you ask for every year, to have that opportunity to compete for a championship and be one of those 68 teams at the beginning of March. But the biggest thing for me is that as you watched us, you saw us grow, and it made you want to watch us more by the way we played, the way we competed, and the passion and the care that we showed.”
The Hurricanes are moving fast with their roster construction now having a projected starting lineup:
PG: Tre Donaldson
SG: Tru Washington
SF: Shelton Henderson
PF: Malik Reneau
C: Ernest Udeh Jr.
BENCH:
Dante Allen
Marcus Allen
Tomotej Malovec
Jordyn Kee
Salih Altuntas
John Laboy II
The full schedule will be announced at a later date.
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Justice Sandle is a graduate of Mississippi State University earning a Bachelor of Arts and Science in Communications with a concentration in Print and Digital Journalism. During his time in Starkville, he spent a year as an intern working for Mississippi State On SI primarily covering basketball, football, baseball, and soccer while writing, recording, and creating multimedia stories during his tenor. Since graduating, he has assumed the role of lead staff writer for Miami Hurricanes On SI covering football, basketball, baseball, and all things Hurricanes related.