{"id":101545,"date":"2026-10-16T09:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=101545"},"modified":"2026-10-16T09:48:29","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T13:48:29","slug":"womens-basketball-to-open-mac-play-on-national-tv-vs-kent-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/10_16_2026\/womens-basketball-to-open-mac-play-on-national-tv-vs-kent-state","title":{"rendered":"Women\u2019s Basketball to Open MAC Play on National TV vs. Kent State"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toledo women\u2019s basketball program\u2019s Mid-American Conference opener against Kent State will air nationally on CBS Sports Network, the conference office announced this week.<\/p>\n

The Rockets and Golden Flashes will tip off Sunday, Jan. 3, at 4 p.m. in Savage Arena. The game was moved from its original date of Jan. 2.<\/p>\n

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The women\u2019s basketball team’s Mid-American Conference opener Jan. 3 against Kent State will air nationally on CBS Sports Network.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toledo opens its season Monday, Nov. 2, against Louisiana Tech at 7 p.m. See the Rockets\u2019 full 2026-27 schedule.<\/a><\/p>\n

With the selection, Toledo will appear in a nationally televised game for the fifth straight season. Last season, the Rockets hosted Gonzaga on CBS Sports Network and returned to the network for the conference tournament championship game. Toledo has also been broadcast on Big Ten Network and ESPN networks in recent seasons.<\/p>\n

The conference has two more national TV slots later in the season: a wild-card league game Feb. 13 on ESPNU, selected 21 days in advance, and the tournament championship game March 13 on CBS Sports Network.<\/p>\n

Tickets for the Jan. 3 game and all games at Savage Arena are available at UTRockets.com\/WBBTix<\/a>, at the Rocket Athletic Ticket Office or by calling 419-530-GOLD (4653).<\/p>\n

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The MAC opener vs. the Golden Flashes is set for Jan. 3 at 4 p.m. in Savage Arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":101546,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,97,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":101549,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101545\/revisions\/101549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}