{"id":91414,"date":"2025-03-13T08:54:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:54:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=91414"},"modified":"2025-03-13T08:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-13T12:54:58","slug":"rockets-rally-to-knock-out-chippewas-in-mac-tournament-quarterfinals-76-58","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_13_2025\/rockets-rally-to-knock-out-chippewas-in-mac-tournament-quarterfinals-76-58","title":{"rendered":"Rockets Rally to Knock Out Chippewas in MAC Tournament Quarterfinals, 76-58"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sammi Mikonowicz\u00a0and\u00a0Nan Garcia\u00a0combined for 34 points and keyed a furious second-half rally as the No. 2 seed Toledo women’s basketball team defeated No. 7 seed Central Michigan, 76-58, in MAC Tournament Quarterfinal action at Rocket Arena in Cleveland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Trailing by 10 points midway through the third quarter, Toledo (23-7) went on a 24-6 splurge to take a 56-48 lead headed into the final 10 minutes. Mikonowicz hit the go-ahead bucket on a driving layup and Garcia hit back-to-back triples at the end of the run, staggering the Chippewas (14-17) and igniting the Rocket faithful in attendance. The Rockets then delivered the knockout blow by scoring the first eight points of the fourth quarter and never looking back.<\/p>\n

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Nan Garcia (1) and Sammi Mikonowicz (33) combined for 34 points in Toledo’s 76-58 win over Central Michigan on Wednesday.<\/p><\/div>\n

After shooting just 12-of-37 (32.4%) from the floor in the first half, the Rockets hit a sizzling 14-of-25 (56.0%) in the final 20 minutes. Toledo was even better from long range, hitting 13-of-23 (56.5%) from behind the arc, including 8-of-12 (66.7%) in the decisive second half. The 56.5% was a season-best from downtown.<\/p>\n

Mikonowicz finished with 18 points, six rebounds and three steals, while Garcia added 16 points and six caroms.<\/p>\n

Toledo will face Buffalo on Friday at approximately 12:30 p.m., following the Ball State-Kent State game which begins at 10 a.m.<\/p>\n

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Toledo now advances and will face Buffalo on Friday at approximately 12:30 p.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50,56,1,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91414"}],"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\/917"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91414"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":91419,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91414\/revisions\/91419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}