{"id":69394,"date":"2026-03-19T03:55:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/miami-ohio-rout-smu-in-first-four-as-prairie-view-make-ncaa-tournament-history\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T03:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T08:55:25","slug":"miami-ohio-rout-smu-in-first-four-as-prairie-view-make-ncaa-tournament-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/miami-ohio-rout-smu-in-first-four-as-prairie-view-make-ncaa-tournament-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami (Ohio) rout SMU in First Four as Prairie View make NCAA Tournament history"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Miami bury 16 threes for statement March Madness win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>RedHawks quiet doubters after unbeaten regular season<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Prairie View A&amp;M claim first ever NCAA Tournament win<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Eian Elmer scored 22 points and Miami (Ohio) beat SMU 89-79 on Wednesday night in the First Four for their first NCAA Tournament victory in 27 years.<\/p>\n<p>Elmer went 6 of 9 from three-point range as the 11th-seeded RedHawks (32-1), undefeated during the regular season, advanced in the Midwest Region to play No 6 seed Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/19\/miami-ohio-smu-prairie-view-lehigh-first-four\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miami bury 16 threes for statement March Madness win RedHawks quiet doubters after unbeaten regular season Prairie View A&amp;M claim first ever NCAA Tournament win Eian Elmer scored 22 points and Miami (Ohio) beat SMU 89-79 on Wednesday night in the First Four for their first NCAA Tournament victory in 27 years. Elmer went 6 &#8230; <a title=\"Miami (Ohio) rout SMU in First Four as Prairie View make NCAA Tournament history\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/19\/miami-ohio-rout-smu-in-first-four-as-prairie-view-make-ncaa-tournament-history\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Miami (Ohio) rout SMU in First Four as Prairie View make NCAA Tournament history\">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-69394","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\/69394","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=69394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}