{"id":188993,"date":"2026-03-12T18:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188993\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T18:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T18:09:08","slug":"miami-ohio-dealt-1st-loss-of-season-by-umass-in-mac-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188993\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami (Ohio) dealt 1st loss of season by UMass in MAC tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 12, 2026, 01:22 PM ET<\/p>\n<p>CLEVELAND &#8212; No. 20 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/193\/miami-oh-redhawks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami (Ohio)<\/a> suffered its first defeat with a shocking <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/boxscore\/_\/gameId\/401858186\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">87-83<\/a> loss to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/team\/_\/id\/113\/massachusetts-minutemen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">UMass<\/a> in its first game of the Mid-American Conference tournament Thursday, spoiling the last perfect record in Division I men&#8217;s basketball.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mens-college-basketball\/player\/_\/id\/5105551\/daniel-hankins-sanford\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Daniel Hankins-Sanford<\/a> made a tiebreaking layup with 29 seconds remaining, and the Minutemen escaped with a victory in a quarterfinal game that had 12 lead changes and 10 ties.<\/p>\n<p>The RedHawks (31-1) were the fifth men&#8217;s Division I program this century to go undefeated during the regular season. Now, it&#8217;s the second to get tripped up in its conference tournament. St. Joseph&#8217;s lost to Xavier in the 2004 Atlantic 10 quarterfinals but was still a No. 1 seed in the NCAA tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Miami was the first squad since Gonzaga in 2020-21 to not have a loss going into a conference tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mar 12, 2026, 01:22 PM ET CLEVELAND &#8212; No. 20 Miami (Ohio) suffered its first defeat with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-188993","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\/188993","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=188993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}