New Year’s Day will usher in a new era for Miami when it takes on Boston College on Wednesday afternoon in Chestnut Hill, Mass.It will be the first time in 14 seasons that the Hurricanes (4-8, 0-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) will play a game without veteran Jim Larranaga as its head coach. Larranaga stepped down from that position last week amid the team’s worst start in more than three decades.Longtime assistant coach Bill Courtney will be on the sideline and serve as the interim coach for the rest of the season.”Basically all the good things I know about basketball, I know from Coach L,” Courtney told the Miami Herald earlier this week. “I can certainly say I worked for a lot of great coaches, but he was the guy that I was with the longest. He’s the guy that taught me things on and off the floor — how to treat the players and how to run a basketball program.”Miami has lost eight of its past nine games. The Hurricanes have been without leading scorer Nijel Pack (13.9 points per game) for its past two contests, a 94-75 win over Presbyterian on Dec. 15 and a 78-74 overtime loss to Mount St. Mary’s on Dec. 21.