{"id":181742,"date":"2026-03-07T05:32:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:32:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181742\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T05:32:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T05:32:11","slug":"no-19-miami-ohio-caps-undefeated-regular-season-with-ot-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181742\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 19 Miami (Ohio) caps undefeated regular season with OT win"},"content":{"rendered":"

ATHENS, Ohio — Miami (Ohio)<\/a> finished the regular season as the only unbeaten team in Division I men’s basketball, with Eian Elmer<\/a> scoring a career-high 32 points and grabbing 12 rebounds in a gritty 110-108 overtime victory over Ohio<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n

Peter Suder<\/a> scored five of his 13 points in overtime for Miami (31-0, 18-0 Mid-American), which is the third team in Division I history to enter a conference tournament 31-0, joining 2013-14 Wichita State<\/a> and 2014-15 Kentucky<\/a>, according to ESPN Research.<\/p>\n

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Trey Perry<\/a> added 21 points and Brant Byers<\/a> scored 15 for the RedHawks, who topped Akron<\/a> for the league title.<\/p>\n

Despite its magical season, Miami might need to win the conference tournament next week to guarantee a spot in the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n

Jackson Paveletzke<\/a> led Ohio (15-16, 9-9) with a career-high 37 points. Javan Simmons<\/a> scored 30 and Aidan Hadaway<\/a> added 20. The Bobcats lost three straight to end the regular season.<\/p>\n

Miami had a bumpy stretch over its previous dozen games with four one-possession wins and two others that went to overtime. This time, the RedHawks needed some late heroics again to win in Athens for the first time in 15 years.<\/p>\n

Simmons’ basket off a missed shot by teammate Kirr Kuany gave Ohio a 108-107 lead with 26 seconds left in OT. Suder sank two free throws to put Miami ahead and Justin Kirby<\/a> made another for the final margin. Paveletzke missed two shots in the final 5 seconds that could have given Ohio the lead, including a 3-pointer at the buzzer.<\/p>\n

The Associated Press contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS, Ohio — Miami (Ohio) finished the regular season as the only unbeaten team in Division I men’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-181742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181742","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=181742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}