{"id":48835,"date":"2018-03-10T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=48835"},"modified":"2018-03-10T09:00:07","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T13:00:07","slug":"rockets-edge-emu-64-63-advance-to-mac-tournament-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_10_2018\/rockets-edge-emu-64-63-advance-to-mac-tournament-championship-game","title":{"rendered":"Rockets edge EMU, 64-63, advance to MAC Tournament Championship Game"},"content":{"rendered":"

Freshman guard Marreon Jackson nailed a three-point field goal with nine seconds left to give No. 2 seed Toledo a dramatic 64-63 victory over No. 3 seed Eastern Michigan in semifinal Mid-American Conference Men’s Basketball Tournament action at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland on Friday.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n

Jackson’s clutch three-pointer was his eighth triple of the evening, a career-high, helping him rack up a career-best 26 points on the evening. <\/p>\n

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Freshman guard Marreon Jackson scored a career-high 26 points, including eight three-pointers. He played all but two minutes of the game.<\/p><\/div>EMU had a chance to win the game, but Kevin McAdoo’s driving shot did not find the mark. The ball went out of bounds after the miss with 0.8 seconds on the clock. Following a video review, the officials ruled that the clock should have run out, thus ending the game at that point.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n

Toledo (23-10) will play No. 1 seed Buffalo (25-8) in the MAC Championship Game Saturday, March 10, at 7 p.m.\u2028\u2028 in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

Jackson’s huge game was especially vital as Toledo was forced to play without senior guard and MAC Player of the Year Tre’Shaun Fletcher, who came out with a knee injury after making a layup on the Rockets’ first possession of the game. His status for Saturday\u2019s game is unknown.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n

Another Jackson, sophomore forward Willie Jackson, added a career-high 18 points, 10 rebounds, three assists and two steals for the Rockets.\u2028\u2028<\/p>\n

Eastern Michigan (21-12) was led by junior guard Paul Jackson’s 26 points.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toledo beat Eastern Michigan, 64-63, in the semifinals of the Mid-American Conference Tournament and will play Buffalo Saturday, March 10, for the championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/48835"}],"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=48835"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48835\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48838,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48835\/revisions\/48838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}