{"id":198792,"date":"2026-03-20T05:53:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:53:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198792\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T05:53:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T05:53:16","slug":"ncaa-tournament-opening-odds-tennessee-a-big-favorite-over-miami-oh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/198792\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA Tournament opening odds: Tennessee a big favorite over Miami (OH)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">A loss in the MAC tournament didn\u2019t slow down the Miami Redhawks. Their first loss of the season, taken to UMass last week, left all of us wondering if they would even make the NCAA Tournament. The Redhawks were one of the last teams to make the NCAA Tournament and they didn\u2019t disappoint in the first four.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Miami left no doubt against SMU on Wednesday night, beating the Mustangs 89-79. Miami shot 41 three-pointers, connecting on 16 of them. Eian Elmer hit six of his nine attempts, going for 23 points.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Redhawks move to 32-1, set to face No. 6 seed Tennessee in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Volunteers will be coming off a loss to Vanderbilt in the SEC Tournament. Tennessee opted to play Nate Ament in the conference tournament, despite the high ankle sprain. He\u2019ll come back on Friday against Miami-OH, hopefully close to full strength. Ament scored 27 points against Auburn last Thursday in the SEC Tournament, powering Tennessee\u2019s comeback win. He was held to just 12 points on 1-13 shooting on Friday against Vanderbilt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Should Tennessee advance, No. 3 seed Virginia is the likely opponent in the round of 32. The Cavaliers are 29-5 overall, just narrowly missing out on the ACC Tournament title.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Tennessee and Miami-OH are set for a Friday evening tip-off. TBS will have the coverage at 4:25 p.m. ET.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A loss in the MAC tournament didn\u2019t slow down the Miami Redhawks. Their first loss of the season,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":198793,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,57697],"class_list":["post-198792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-tennessee-volunteer-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198792","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=198792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198792\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}