{"id":327497,"date":"2026-07-02T17:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327497\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T17:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T17:38:07","slug":"miami-starts-season-at-james-madison-in-mac-sbc-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327497\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Starts Season at James Madison in MAC-SBC Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2013\u00a0On Thursday afternoon, the Mid-American Conference announced that the Miami University men&#8217;s basketball team will travel to James Madison in the MAC versus Sun Belt Challenge on Monday, Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>James Madison is coming off an 18-15 (9-9 SBC) season. It will be the third\u00a0time that\u00a0the two programs have faced off. Miami posted a 2-0 record in last season&#8217;s challenge, earning victories over Old Dominion (87-72) and Marshall (90-74).<\/p>\n<p>The RedHawks are coming off of a historic year that included an undefeated regular season (31-0) and set a program record with 32 wins (tying the MAC record for most wins in a single season), breaking the previous mark of 25 set a year earlier. The Red and White secured the\u00a0MAC Regular Season Championship outright for the program&#8217;s first MAC title since 2005, became the first MAC team to earn an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament since 1999 and defeated SMU in the First Four for the program&#8217;s first NCAA Tournament win since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>The RedHawks return 10 players from last season&#8217;s roster, including third-team All-MAC performer Luke Skaljac, Almar Atlason\u00a0and Evan Ipsaro, who is returning from an injury.<\/p>\n<p>Miami welcomes six\u00a0new players to Oxford, Ohio (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" noreferrer=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/miamiredhawks.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\/roster\">COMPLETE ROSTER<\/a>).<br \/>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND, Ohio \u2013\u00a0On Thursday afternoon, the Mid-American Conference announced that the Miami University men&#8217;s basketball team will travel&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-327497","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\/327497","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=327497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}