{"id":197287,"date":"2026-03-19T02:33:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:33:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197287\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T02:33:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T02:33:08","slug":"mens-march-madness-2026-first-four-score-live-updates-miami-oh-battling-smu-in-second-half","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197287\/","title":{"rendered":"Men\u2019s March Madness 2026 First Four score, live updates: Miami (OH) battling SMU in second half"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That was a frantic first half, and I\u2019m already clamoring for halftime to be over. Miami (OH) let it fly with 25 3-pointers, and the 10 that found the net are the main reason why the RedHawks hold a 43-34 lead at halftime. <\/p>\n<p>The first half had its ugly moments of poor shooting, but it found another level once shots started falling on both sides.<\/p>\n<p>SMU had a couple scoring runs of its own, including a stretch with eight makes in nine field-goal attempts, but Miami\u2019s aggressive offense is still threatening to leave SMU in the dust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That was a frantic first half, and I\u2019m already clamoring for halftime to be over. Miami (OH) let&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197288,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-197287","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197287","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=197287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197287\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}