{"id":117465,"date":"2026-01-14T06:26:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117465\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:26:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:26:13","slug":"miami-ohio-beats-central-michigan-100-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117465\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami (Ohio) beats Central Michigan 100-61"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"VideoPlayer-backgroundImage\" alt=\"default-cbs-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/video-slate.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>OXFORD, Ohio (AP)  Brant Byers scored 24 points to help Miami (Ohio) defeat <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/CMICH\/central-michigan-chippewas\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Central Michigan<\/a> 100-61 on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Byers shot 6 of 9 from the field, including 3 for 5 from 3-point range, and went 9 for 10 from the line for the RedHawks (18-0, 6-0 Mid-American Conference). Justin Kirby scored 17 points and added six rebounds. Luke Skaljac had 13 points and shot 5 for 7, including 3 for 4 from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n<p>Nathan Claerbaut finished with 16 points for the Chippewas (5-13, 1-5). Central Michigan also got 11 points and eight rebounds from Keenan Garner. Tamario Adley also put up 11 points and six rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Miami took the lead with 15:35 remaining in the first half and did not trail again. Byers led his team in scoring with 16 points in the first half to help put them up 49-35 at the break. Miami extended its lead to 100-59 during the second half, fueled by a 19-2 scoring run. Trey Perry scored a team-high eight points in the second half as his team closed out the win.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"StatsincCopyright\">\n    Copyright 2026 STATS LLC and Associated Press. Any commercial use or distribution without the express written consent of STATS LLC and Associated Press is strictly prohibited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OXFORD, Ohio (AP) Brant Byers scored 24 points to help Miami (Ohio) defeat Central Michigan 100-61 on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108640,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[24169,8294,123,26238,125,124],"class_list":["post-117465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-central-michigan-chippewas","tag-college-basketball","tag-miami","tag-miami-ohio-redhawks","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117465\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}