{"id":181816,"date":"2026-03-07T07:34:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:34:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181816\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T07:34:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T07:34:08","slug":"miami-of-ohio-finishes-regular-season-31-0-after-110-108-ot-win-at-ohio-news-herald","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/181816\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami of Ohio finishes regular season 31-0 after 110-108 OT win at Ohio \u2013 News-Herald"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ATHENS \u2014 No. 19 Miami of Ohio finished the regular season as the only unbeaten team in Division I men\u2019s basketball, with Eian Elmer scoring a career-high 32 points and grabbing 12 rebounds in a gritty 110-108 overtime victory over Ohio on March 6.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Suder scored five of his 13 points in overtime for Miami (31-0, 18-0 Mid-American), which became the first team to complete an unblemished regular season since Gonzaga in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Trey Perry added 21 points and Brant Byers scored 15 for the RedHawks, who topped Akron for the league title.<\/p>\n<p>Despite its magical season, Miami might need to win the conference tournament next week at Rocket Arena to guarantee a spot in the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The RedHawks\u2019 next game will be in a MAC tournament quarterfinal matchup at Rocket Arena on March 12 at 11 a.m. against No. 8 seed UMass.<\/p>\n<p>Jackson Paveletzke led Ohio (15-16, 9-9) with a career-high 37 points. Javan Simmons scored 30 and Aidan Hadaway added 20. The Bobcats lost three straight to end the regular season.<\/p>\n<p>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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATHENS \u2014 No. 19 Miami of Ohio finished the regular season as the only unbeaten team in Division&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":181817,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[111,114,123,125,124,110],"class_list":["post-181816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-college-sports","tag-latest-headlines","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181816","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=181816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181816\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181817"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}