{"id":97517,"date":"2026-03-10T03:30:45","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/?p=97517"},"modified":"2026-03-11T14:03:28","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T18:03:28","slug":"no-6-seed-toledo-faces-no-3-seed-umass-on-wednesday-in-womens-2026-mac-tournament-quarterfinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/03_10_2026\/no-6-seed-toledo-faces-no-3-seed-umass-on-wednesday-in-womens-2026-mac-tournament-quarterfinals","title":{"rendered":"No. 6 Seed Toledo Faces No. 3 Seed UMass on Wednesday in Women’s 2026 MAC Tournament Quarterfinals"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Toledo women’s basketball team enters the Mid-American Conference Tournament this week as the No. 6 seed and will face No. 3 seed UMass on Wednesday, March 11, in the quarterfinal round at Rocket Arena in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

Tipoff for Wednesday’s game will be approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the Ball State-Bowling Green quarterfinal and will be the fourth game of the day. Streaming will be on ESPN+ and the Rocket Radio Network.<\/p>\n

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Toledo will play UMass on Wednesday, approximately 30 minutes after the conclusion of the Ball State-Bowling Green quarterfinal. The Rockets game wil be streaming will be on ESPN+ and the Rocket Radio Network.<\/p><\/div>\n

The Rockets (15-14, 9-9 MAC) come off a split week to close the regular season, defeating Western Michigan, 56-49 on the road but falling at home, 78-71, to Ball State. Junior\u00a0Kendall Carruthers\u00a0(25 @ WMU), graduate student\u00a0Patricia Anumgba\u00a0(24 vs. Ball State) and junior\u00a0Ella Weaver\u00a0(21 vs. Ball State) all turned in 20-point efforts over the week. Toledo played 10 games against the tournament field in the regular season, with a 4-6 combined record.<\/p>\n

The Minutewomen (23-6, 15-3 MAC) won five in a row to close the regular season, defeating Buffalo at home, 73-55, on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The two sides will play for the second time in three weeks on Wednesday. On Feb. 18, Toledo secured a key road victory in a 60-52 triumph.\u00a0Patricia Anumgba\u00a0keyed the win on both ends of the floor, with 22 points, a 7-for-11 shooting effort, 4-for-7 from distance and a career-high seven steals. The win was Toledo’s first all-time victory against UMass.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"In-game<\/a>

The Rockets are making their fifth-straight appearance in the eight-team tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":917,"featured_media":97519,"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\/97517"}],"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=97517"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97521,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97517\/revisions\/97521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}