{"id":633604,"date":"2026-04-28T07:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633604\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T07:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T07:05:15","slug":"ub-mens-tennis-to-rematch-ohio-state-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/633604\/","title":{"rendered":"UB men&#8217;s tennis to rematch Ohio State in first round of NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UB&#8217;s men&#8217;s tennis team prepares for a rematch against Ohio State in the NCAA Tournament, after a second straight year of taking home the MAC title.<\/p>\n<p>AMHERST, NY \u2014 UB&#8217;s men&#8217;s tennis team now know who they will face in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The team found out Monday that they will face Ohio State for a second straight year. The two familiar foes will start serve on Friday at 1:00 pm.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/article\/sports\/high-school\/section-vi-high-school-football-championships-ub\/71-140239f5-96c0-4ce6-94a9-d9d49d5c0dff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Section VI Football Championships find new home at UB&#8217;s football stadium<\/a><\/p>\n<p>UB enters the clash on the court with a 16-6 record, and an impressive roster. Four players earned All-MAC honors in 2026 (Onder Balci, Theodoros Mitsakos, Minjae Kim, and Clement Mainguy). Head coach Lee Nickell took home MAC Coach of the Year honors for the second year in a row. Nickell has won the award five times with UB.<\/p>\n<p>UB won the MAC for a second straight year, this marks the first tie in program history where they have taken the conference title home in back-to-back years.<\/p>\n<p>Ohio State swept the Bulls last year, but lost 4-3 to Michigan State in this years Big Ten Tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"UB&#8217;s men&#8217;s tennis team prepares for a rematch against Ohio State in the NCAA Tournament, after a second&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":633605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[442],"tags":[49,48,82,593],"class_list":["post-633604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tennis","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=633604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/633604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/633605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=633604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=633604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=633604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}