{"id":192946,"date":"2026-03-16T01:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192946\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T01:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T01:33:17","slug":"miami-redhawks-among-first-four-teams-to-play-here-in-dayton-whio-tv-7-and-whio-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/192946\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami RedHawks among First Four teams to play here in Dayton \u2013 WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">DAYTON \u2014 &#8211; UPDATE @ 9:15 P.M.-<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The Miami RedHawks will be one of eight teams to play in the 2026 First Four this week here in Dayton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[DOWNLOAD: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\">Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">These eight teams will play on Tuesday and Wednesday to begin the 2026 NCAA Men\u2019s Basketball Tournament at the UD Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">TRENDING STORIES:<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Each team will participate in open practices on Monday and Tuesday at the UD Arena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Our news crew was there when the University of Dayton started installing the First Four basketball court and setting up the playing area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The two games on Tuesday include:<\/p>\n<p>No. 16 UMBC vs No. 16 Howard, 6:40 p.m.No. 11 Texas vs No. 11 NC State, 9:15 p.m.*<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The other games are on Wednesday:<\/p>\n<p>No. 16 Lehigh vs No. 16 Prairie View A&amp;M, 6:40 p.m. No. 11 Miami (OH) vs SMU, 9:15 p.m.*<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The RedHawks became the first Mid-American Conference bid to receive an at-large bid since 1999. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">That was Miami, and they advanced to the Sweet 16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">We will continue to update this story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">[SIGN UP: <a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\">WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92026 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DAYTON \u2014 &#8211; UPDATE @ 9:15 P.M.- The Miami RedHawks will be one of eight teams to play&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":192947,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[89841,89433,33737,123,125,124,89842],"class_list":["post-192946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-2026-first-four","tag-first-four","tag-march-madness","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-wright-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192946","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=192946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=192946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=192946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=192946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}