{"id":29001,"date":"2014-03-16T22:35:42","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T02:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=29001"},"modified":"2014-03-16T22:35:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T02:35:42","slug":"mens-basketball-team-to-travel-to-southern-miss-in-nit-first-round-game-march-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_16_2014\/mens-basketball-team-to-travel-to-southern-miss-in-nit-first-round-game-march-19","title":{"rendered":"Men’s basketball team to travel to Southern Miss in NIT first round game March 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toledo (27-6, 14-4 Mid-American Conference) will continue its record-breaking season with an appearance in the 77th annual National Invitation Tournament. <\/p>\n

\"thumb-rocket-color-logo\"<\/a>The Rockets will visit Conference USA regular-season co-champion Southern Mississippi (27-6, 13-3 C-USA) Wednesday, March 19, at 8:30 p.m.<\/P><\/p>\n

The game in Hattiesburg will be available for viewing on ESPN3 and also will be broadcast on the Rocket Radio Network, which includes WSPD-AM 1370 locally.<\/p>\n

The Eagles and Rockets possess the top two ratings percentage indexes in the 32-team field at No. 31 and No. 37, respectively. UT is the No. 6 seed in its region, while USM is the No. 3 seed.<\/p>\n

The winner of the Toledo-Southern Miss contest will face the winner of Tuesday\u2019s game pitting No. 2 seed Missouri (22-11) and No. 7 seed Davidson (20-12) on a date to be determined.<\/p>\n

Toledo is making its eighth NIT appearance in school history and possesses an all-time record of 3-7 in the event. Its last victory was a 76-67 home triumph over South Alabama in 2001.<\/p>\n

The Rockets captured a share of their eighth regular-season MAC title this season, posting a school-record 27 victories before falling to Western Michigan in the MAC Tournament title Saturday night.<\/p>\n

Southern Miss is undefeated at home (14-0) and finished in a four-way tie for first place in Conference USA with Louisiana Tech, Middle Tennessee and Tulsa. The Golden Eagles lost in their conference semifinals to Louisiana Tech by an 88-70 margin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The men’s basketball team will compete in the National Invitation Tournament and face Southern Mississippi Wednesday, March 19, in Hattiesburg.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,5,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29001"}],"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\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}