{"id":72014,"date":"2022-03-09T03:20:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-09T07:20:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=72014"},"modified":"2022-03-09T17:10:03","modified_gmt":"2022-03-09T21:10:03","slug":"no-1-toledo-opens-mac-tournament-against-no-8-ohio-on-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_09_2022\/no-1-toledo-opens-mac-tournament-against-no-8-ohio-on-wednesday","title":{"rendered":"No. 1 Toledo Opens MAC Tournament Against No. 8 Ohio on Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Postseason play for the Toledo women’s basketball team begins on Wednesday, March 9, at the MAC Tournament in Cleveland. The No. 1 seed Rockets will face the No. 8 seed Ohio Bobcats at 11 a.m. on ESPN+.<\/p>\n

Toledo enters the MAC Tournament having won 11 straight games, its second winning streak of at least eight games this season. Only the 2012-13 and 1996-97 teams have won at least eight games in a row twice in the same season. There are only 10 other teams in the nation with an active winning streak of at least 11 games.<\/p>\n

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Toledo enters the MAC Tournament having won 11 straight games, its second winning streak of at least eight games this season.<\/p><\/div>\n

Toledo also just wrapped up one of the best seasons in recent memory, posting a 25-4 overall record and a historic 19-1 ledger in MAC play, a new conference record for most league wins in a season. The Rockets captured their 10th\u00a0MAC Regular Season Championship in program history and their first since 2012-13 and reached the 25-win plateau for just the 12th\u00a0time.<\/p>\n

Toledo’s lone blemish in conference play, though, came at the hands of the Bobcats on Jan. 26 in a 79-72 loss at home.<\/p>\n

Toledo led by as many as nine late in the third quarter of that game but saw its offensive well run dry against a hot-shooting Ohio team in the fourth quarter. UToledo made just 5-of-20 shots in the final frame while the Bobcats shot 81.8 percent (9-of-11). Sammi Mikonowicz tied a school record with 22 rebounds that night, while Ohio’s CeCe Hooks scored a game-high 30 points.<\/p>\n

The Rockets exacted revenge in the second meeting on Feb. 16 in Athens, overcoming a 17-point deficit to win 76-73.<\/p>\n

With 3:02 remaining in the second quarter, Hooks made both free throws to make the score 40-23. Toledo closed the gap to 11 points before the end of the half, then proceeded to outscore the Bobcats 29-16 in the third quarter to take a 60-58 lead, its first of the night.<\/p>\n

Ohio fought back to tie the score at 68-68 with 4:23 left in the game, but on the next possession, Quinesha Lockett’s three-point play gave Toledo the lead for good. Sophia Wiard had a terrific night, scoring a season-high 26 points on 9-of-11 shooting and providing a critical block with 55 seconds remaining on what would have been the go-ahead basket.<\/p>\n

For more information about the 2022 MAC Tournament, fans can visit\u00a0utrockets.com\/MACTournament<\/a>\u00a0to learn more about tickets, pregame festivities and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The No. 1 seed Rockets will face the Ohio Bobcats at 11 a.m. on ESPN+.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":836,"featured_media":72016,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,5,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72014"}],"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\/836"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72014"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72014\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72039,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72014\/revisions\/72039"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72016"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}