{"id":191689,"date":"2026-03-14T17:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191689\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T17:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T17:50:08","slug":"miami-wins-2026-mac-womens-basketball-tournament-title-punches-ticket-to-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/191689\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Wins 2026 MAC Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament Title; Punches Ticket to NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"

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CLEVELAND \u2013 The top-seeded Miami RedHawks defeated the sixth-seeded Toledo Rockets, 68-58, in the 2026 Mid-American Conference Women\u2019s Basketball Tournament Championship on Saturday afternoon inside Rocket Arena.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This marks Miami\u2019s first MAC Tournament title since 2008 and their second overall in program history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The RedHawks used a hot start to claim the hardware, jumping out to a 16-0 lead in the opening seven minutes of the contest.<\/p>\n

This season, Miami captured its first regular season championship since the 2003-04 season, and are 27-6 overall and 16-2 in MAC play, but those are not the only highlights this season.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The 28 wins are the most in program history, while the 16 conference wins rank as second-best. Additionally, Miami opened conference play 11-0, the best start in program history.<\/p>\n

The RedHawks had a 13-game win streak from Dec. 20-Feb. 10, the second-best win streak in school history (best is 14).<\/p>\n

Miami will find out its NCAA Tournament fate on Sunday, March 15 at 8 p.m. ET. The show will air live on ESPN.\u00a0<\/p>\n


\n2026 MAC Women’s Basketball All-Tournament Team

\nBree Salenbien, Ball State

\nPatricia Anumgba, Toledo

\nAmber Scalia, Miami*

\nAmber Tretter, Miami

\nTamar Singer, Miami<\/p>\n

Tournament MVP*<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Story Links Box Score Championship Central …\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191690,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-191689","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\/191689","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=191689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191689\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}