{"id":69267,"date":"2026-03-18T01:56:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:56:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/howard-hold-off-umbc-in-first-four-for-schools-first-ever-march-madness-win\/"},"modified":"2026-03-18T01:56:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T06:56:43","slug":"howard-hold-off-umbc-in-first-four-for-schools-first-ever-march-madness-win","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/howard-hold-off-umbc-in-first-four-for-schools-first-ever-march-madness-win\/","title":{"rendered":"Howard hold off UMBC in First Four for school\u2019s first ever March Madness win"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Harris lifts Howard to first NCAA win in history<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>UMBC rally falls short in tense First Four loss<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Mark buzzer-beater sends Texas past NC State<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Bryce Harris had 19 points and 14 rebounds, and he sank a turnaround jumper with 13 seconds remaining that sent Howard to its first NCAA Tournament victory in program history, 86-83 over UMBC in the First Four on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Ose Okojie scored a career-high 23 points to lead the Bison (24-10), who entered with an 0-4 record in March Madness and had to hold off a late rally by the Retrievers (24-9).<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/18\/howard-first-ncaa-tournament-win-texas-nc-state-first-four\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harris lifts Howard to first NCAA win in history UMBC rally falls short in tense First Four loss Mark buzzer-beater sends Texas past NC State Bryce Harris had 19 points and 14 rebounds, and he sank a turnaround jumper with 13 seconds remaining that sent Howard to its first NCAA Tournament victory in program history, &#8230; <a title=\"Howard hold off UMBC in First Four for school\u2019s first ever March Madness win\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/18\/howard-hold-off-umbc-in-first-four-for-schools-first-ever-march-madness-win\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Howard hold off UMBC in First Four for school\u2019s first ever March Madness win\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}