{"id":193498,"date":"2026-03-16T14:09:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193498\/"},"modified":"2026-03-16T14:09:20","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T14:09:20","slug":"two-bid-maction-akron-miami-punch-tickets-to-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/193498\/","title":{"rendered":"Two-Bid MACtion: Akron, Miami Punch Tickets to NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                &#13;<br \/>\n                    Story Links&#13;<br \/>\n                    &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n                <a href=\"https:\/\/getsomemaction.com\/documents\/2026\/3\/15\/\/2026_NCAA_DI_Men_s_Basketball_Championship_Bracket.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PRINTABLE NCAA TOURNAMENT BRACKET<\/a> &#13;<br \/>\n            &#13;<br \/>\n        &#13;<br \/>\n    &#13;<br \/>\n&#13;<\/p>\n<p>                INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. \u2013 The 2026 NCAA Men&#8217;s Basketball Tournament Bracket was unveiled this evening, revealing two Mid-American Conference men&#8217;s basketball squads in this year&#8217;s tournament field for the first time since the 1998-99 season.<\/p>\n<p>The Akron Zips earned the conferences automatic bid in winning their third consecutive MAC Tournament crown on Saturday night. The No. 12 Zips will take on No. 5 Texas Tech on Friday, March 20 from\u00a0Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Regular-season champion Miami earned the conference&#8217;s first at-large bid in over 20 years after finishing the regular season undefeated at 31-0. The No. 11 RedHawks will take on No. 11 Southern Methodist in a First Four matchup from\u00a0UD Arena in Dayton, Ohio on Wednesday, March 18.<\/p>\n<p>More info to come.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"97159\" height=\"708\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/2026_NCAA_Men_s_Basketball_Tournament_Bracket.png\" style=\"display: inline-block;\" width=\"1000\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n                &#13;\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Story Links&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; PRINTABLE NCAA TOURNAMENT BRACKET &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; INDIANAPOLIS, Ind.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193499,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-193498","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\/193498","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=193498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}