{"id":28989,"date":"2014-03-14T23:17:32","date_gmt":"2014-03-15T03:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=28989"},"modified":"2014-03-15T15:09:20","modified_gmt":"2014-03-15T19:09:20","slug":"toledo-advances-to-mac-tournament-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_14_2014\/toledo-advances-to-mac-tournament-championship-game","title":{"rendered":"Toledo advances to MAC Tournament Championship Game"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Toledo Rockets downed the Eastern Michigan Eagles, 59-44, Friday night in the semifinal game of the Mid-American Conference Tournament in Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>UT, the No. 2 seed, will take on No. 1 seed Western Michigan in the championship game Saturday, March 15, at 6:30 p.m. in Cleveland.<\/P><\/p>\n<p><P>The game will be carried by ESPN2.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will receive an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament.<\/p>\n<p>With the victory, the Rockets have posted 27 wins this season, the best single-season win total in Toledo men\u2019s basketball history.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"http:\/\/utrockets.com\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_28992\" style=\"width: 478px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Pearson.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28992\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Pearson.jpg\" alt=\"Senior Rian Pearson scored 18 points in Toledo\u2019s victory over Eastern Michigan.\" width=\"468\" height=\"420\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Pearson.jpg 468w, https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Pearson-300x269.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-28992\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senior Rian Pearson scored 18 points in Toledo\u2019s victory over Eastern Michigan.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a 59-44 win over Eastern Michigan, the Toledo Rockets advance to play in the Mid-American Conference Tournament Championship Game Saturday, March 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28989"}],"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\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}