{"id":143038,"date":"2026-02-04T06:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143038\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T06:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T06:36:13","slug":"no-23-miami-ohio-extends-winning-streak-to-23-games-with-73-71-victory-over-buffalo-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/143038\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 23 Miami (Ohio) extends winning streak to 23 games with 73-71 victory over Buffalo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMHERST, N.Y. (AP)  Luke Skaljac scored a career-high 19 points and No. 23 Miami (Ohio) held on for a 73-71 victory over <a class=\"Annotation-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/college-basketball\/teams\/BUFF\/buffalo-bulls\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Buffalo<\/a> on Tuesday night, extending the longest winning streak in Mid-American Conference history to 23 games.<\/p>\n<p>Brant Byers added 11 points for the RedHawks (23-0, 11-0), and Peter Suder had 10 points, eight assists and five rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Miami and Arizona (22-0) remain the only unbeaten teams in Division I.<\/p>\n<p>Angelo Brizzi scored 22 points and Daniel Freitag had 18 to lead Buffalo (14-9, 4-7). The Bulls have lost seven of eight games following a 13-2 start that was the second-best in the program\u2019s Division I history.<\/p>\n<p>Noah Batchelor\u2019s 3-pointer got Buffalo within 73-71 with 11 seconds remaining. Skaljac missed two free throws in the final 16 seconds, including the front end of one-and-one after Batchelor\u2019s basket, but Ryan Sabol\u2019s fallaway 3-point attempt at the buzzer bounced off the front of the rim.<\/p>\n<p>Miami\u2019s 73 points were a season low. The RedHawks entered the game leading the country in averaging 93.7 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Bulls tied the score three times with less than seven minutes remaining before Miami took command with a 6-0 run, holding Buffalo scoreless over a 3:49 span.<\/p>\n<p>Miami led 38-35 at halftime after a back-and-forth period with nine lead changes and four ties.<\/p>\n<p>This was the second close game between these teams this season. The RedHawks beat the Bulls 105-102 in overtime on Jan. 17<\/p>\n<p>Miami\u2019s ranking is its highest since being No. 22 in November 1998. They are the first MAC team ranked since Buffalo finished the 2018-19 season at No. 15.<\/p>\n<p>Miami (Ohio): At Marshall on Saturday in the MAC-Sun Belt Challenge.<\/p>\n<p>Buffalo: At South Alabama on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. Sign up here. AP college basketball: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/ap-top-25-college-basketball-poll and https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/college-basketball<\/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":"AMHERST, N.Y. (AP) Luke Skaljac scored a career-high 19 points and No. 23 Miami (Ohio) held on for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":143039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[33131,8294,123,26238,125,124],"class_list":["post-143038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-buffalo-bulls","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\/143038","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=143038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/143039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}