{"id":197743,"date":"2026-03-19T13:08:35","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197743\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T13:08:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T13:08:35","slug":"miami-oh-makes-a-point-with-89-79-win-over-smu-in-the-first-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197743\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami (OH) makes a point with 89-79 win over SMU in the First Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2112777\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2112777\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/miamioh.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"  \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2112777\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miami (OH) drilled 16 3s and beat SMU in the First Four Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>DAYTON, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Eian Elmer scored 23 points and Miami (Ohio) beat SMU 89-79 on Wednesday night in the First Four for its first NCAA Tournament victory in 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>Elmer went 6-for-9 from 3-point range as the 11th-seeded RedHawks (32-1), unbeaten during the regular season, advanced in the Midwest Region to play No. 6 seed Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>Brant Byers added 19 points, including four 3s, and Luke Skaljac had 17 for Miami, making its first NCAA Tournament appearance since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>The RedHawks finished 16-for-41 from 3-point range.<\/p>\n<p>Jaden Toombs led SMU (20-14) with 20 points and 11 rebounds. Jaron Pierre Jr. scored 18 points and Boopie Miller had 15 for the Mustangs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami (OH) drilled 16 3s and beat SMU in the First Four Wednesday. DAYTON, Ohio (AP) \u2014 Eian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197744,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[89433,123,125,124,89901],"class_list":["post-197743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-first-four","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-ncaa-tournament-2026"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197743","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=197743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}