{"id":192903,"date":"2026-03-16T00:32:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192903\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T00:32:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T00:32:29","slug":"no-7-miami-draws-no-10-missouri-in-opening-round-of-march-madness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192903\/","title":{"rendered":"No. 7 Miami draws No. 10 Missouri in opening round of March Madness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM<\/p>\n<p>Miami opens its NCAA Tournament run Friday in St. Louislead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/DWGSEQN7IA5YJ55QEEE7XUL3FQ.jpg\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">CORAL GABLES, Fla.  \u2014 The road to Indianapolis begins Friday in St. Louis for head coach Jai Lucas and his No. 7 Miami Hurricanes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami earned a No. 7 seed in the West Region and will face No. 10 Missouri (20\u201312) of the SEC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami is back in March Madness for the first time since its historic Final Four run in 2023 &#8212; a run that included several upset victories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Lucas has turned the Miami program around in his first season in Coral Gables, guiding the Hurricanes to a 25-8 regular-season record and a 13-5 mark in the ACC.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It came one season after the Hurricanes finished 7\u201324 overall and 3\u201317, worst in the conference &#8212; with former coach Jim Larra\u00f1aga stepping down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Other notable teams in the West Region include No. 1 Arizona, No. 2 Purdue, No. 3 Gonzaga and No. 4 Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The winner of No. 7 Miami and No. 10 Missouri will play the winner of No. 2 Purdue and No. 15 Queens in the Round of 32 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Brandon Liguori\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d24d8e63-8633-479e-a0c1-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Brandon Liguori<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Brandon Liguori is a Floor Director and Web Contributor for WPLG Local 10 News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 15, 2026 at 8:10 PM Miami opens its NCAA Tournament run Friday in St. Louislead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand CORAL GABLES,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-192903","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\/192903","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=192903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}