{"id":53976,"date":"2019-03-11T21:40:12","date_gmt":"2019-03-12T01:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=53976"},"modified":"2019-03-12T15:45:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-12T19:45:32","slug":"toledo-knocks-out-ball-state-67-63","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_11_2019\/toledo-knocks-out-ball-state-67-63","title":{"rendered":"Toledo knocks out Ball State, 67-63"},"content":{"rendered":"

Senior center Kaayla McIntyre scored 19 points and sophomore guard Nakiah Black added 16 as No. 6 seed Toledo defeated No. 11 seed Ball State, 67-63, in first-round action of the Mid-American Conference Women’s Basketball Tournament at Savage Arena on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Toledo (20-10) advances to play No. 3 seed Miami (22-7) in quarterfinal action Wednesday, March 13, at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

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Senior Kaayla McIntyre led the Rockets with 19 points in their first-round MAC Tournament win over Ball State Monday night in Savage Arena.<\/p><\/div>The Rockets built an early lead over Ball State (8-23) and then fought off a late Cardinal rally. Black nailed four of five shots for nine points in the first half as Toledo jumped out to a 21-8 first-quarter lead. UT pushed the lead up to 14 points in the second quarter before settling on a 33-23 margin at halftime.<\/p>\n

Ball State hung around in the second half, before pulling to within two points, 59-57, with a little more than a minute remaining. Black scored seven points in the final minute to clinch the victory and help Toledo advance to the next round.<\/p>\n

Toledo shot the ball well, hitting 25 of 54 (46.3 percent) from the field. The Rockets were out-rebounded, 35-31, but held the Cardinals to just 23 of 58 (39.7 percent) shooting.<\/p>\n

Junior guard Mariella Santucci\u00a0had a big night for the Rockets, scoring 12 points, grabbing seven rebounds, and handing out six assists while committing just two turnovers.<\/p>\n

Toledo and Miami will meet Wednesday in the fourth and final game, which will take place 30 minutes following the third game, approximately 7 p.m.<\/p>\n

Miami defeated Toledo twice during the regular season, 65-64 in Oxford Jan. 9 and 65-56 in Toledo Feb. 20.<\/p>\n

The winner of the Toledo-Miami game will play in the semifinals Friday, March 15, at approximately 1:15 p.m. The championship game will be played Saturday, March 16, at 11 a.m. on the CBS Sports Network.<\/p>\n

MAC Tournament tickets can be purchased online at the\u00a0Toledo Rockets\u2019 website<\/a>, by calling 419.530.GOLD (4653) or by visiting the ticket office in Savage Arena. Only tickets purchased through the University will be in the Rocket section of Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The women’s basketball team beat Ball State, 67-64, to advance to the MAC Tournament quarterfinals Wednesday, March 13, at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"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\/53976"}],"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\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53976"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54032,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53976\/revisions\/54032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}