Kentucky basketball’s SEC/ACC Challenge matchup has been revealed. It’s not Duke or UNC.

The matchups for the first men’s basketball SEC/ACC Challenge were announced Wednesday.

Kentucky won’t be playing one of the Atlantic Coast Conference’s blue-blood programs.

The Miami Hurricanes will visit Rupp Arena on Nov. 28 (the Tuesday after Thanksgiving) to meet the Wildcats in the opening game of the interleague series, which replaced the annual Big 12/SEC Challenge that had been a staple of the UK basketball schedule. The Kentucky-Miami game is scheduled to tip off at 7:30 p.m. TV information will be announced at a later date, and all games in the showcase will air on ESPN-affiliated channels.

By drawing the Hurricanes, the Cats avoided a regular-season matchup with Duke or North Carolina, the two most storied programs in the ACC. UK sees both teams on a regular basis as part of the annual Champions Classic and CBS Sports Classic, but those events are played at neutral sites. The SEC/ACC Challenge will be played on home courts.

Kentucky and Duke are scheduled to play each other in the Champions Classic next year, so the earliest the Cats and Blue Devils could meet in the new SEC/ACC series would be the 2025-26 season.

The CBS Sports Classic matchups for this season have not yet been announced, but documents received by the Herald-Leader through an open records request show that UK is scheduled to face Ohio State in that event in 2024, UCLA in 2025 and North Carolina in 2026. That would leave UNC open as a possible opponent in the SEC/ACC Challenge next year.

In this season’s event, Duke will play at Arkansas, and North Carolina will host Tennessee.

Miami advanced to its first Final Four as a 5 seed last season, losing to eventual NCAA champion UConn in the national semifinals. The Hurricanes ended up with a 29-8 record and a 15-5 mark in the ACC, sharing regular-season league champion honors with Virginia.

The Canes made it to the Elite Eight in 2022, which was their first appearance that deep in the tournament in school history. Jim Larrañaga is entering his 13th season as Miami’s head coach, and four of the program’s five Sweet Sixteen appearances have come during his tenure.

Miami will lose its two leading scorers from last season — Isaiah Wong and Jordan Miller — but should still return a formidable roster for the 2023-24 campaign. The team’s three other starters from last season — guards Nijel Pack and Wooga Poplar, and forward Norchad Omier — will all be back, and the program will also bring in 6-foot-7 junior guard Matthew Cleveland, a former five-star recruit who led Florida State in points per game and total rebounds last season.

CBS Sports ranks the Hurricanes at No. 10 on its preseason list, and ESPN has Miami at No. 17 in its early rankings.

Kentucky is ranked No. 17 in the CBS Sports rankings after the recent return of veteran guard Antonio Reeves and addition of West Virginia transfer Tre Mitchell, but the Cats’ roster — bolstered by the nation’s No. 1-ranked recruiting class — will still be one of the youngest in the country.

UK has a 3-1 lead over Miami in the all-time series, though the Hurricanes won the most recent matchup, a 73-67 victory in Rupp Arena during the 2008-09 season, the year before John Calipari arrived as Kentucky’s head coach.

UK’s 2023-24 non-conference slate will also include high-profile games against Kansas in the Champions Classic, Gonzaga in Nashville, the CBS Sports Classic matchup and a road trip to rival Louisville.

The Wildcats’ full schedule for this season will be revealed later this year.

2023 ACC/SEC Men’s Challenge

Tuesday, Nov. 28

LSU at Syracuse, 7 p.m.

Missouri at Pitt, 7 p.m.

Mississippi State at Georgia Tech, 7 p.m.

Notre Dame at South Carolina, 7 p.m.

Miami at Kentucky, 7:30 p.m.

NC State at Ole Miss, 9 p.m.

Clemson at Alabama, 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, Nov. 29

Tennessee at North Carolina, 7:15 p.m.

Texas A&M at Virginia, 7:15 p.m.

Florida at Wake Forest, 7:15 p.m.

Duke at Arkansas, 9:15 p.m.

Virginia Tech at Auburn, 9:15 p.m.

Georgia at Florida State, 9:15 p.m.

Boston College at Vanderbilt, 9:15 p.m.

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