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03/12 12:22 CDT No. 20 Miami (Ohio) dealt 1st loss by UMass in MAC Tournament,
87-83
No. 20 Miami (Ohio) dealt 1st loss by UMass in MAC Tournament, 87-83
By JOE REEDY
AP Sports Writer
CLEVELAND (AP) --- No. 20 Miami (Ohio) suffered its first defeat with a
shocking 87-83 loss to UMass in its first game of the Mid-American Conference
Tournament on Thursday, spoiling the last perfect record in Division I men's
basketball.
Daniel Hankins-Sanford made a tiebreaking layup with 29 seconds remaining, and
the Minutemen escaped with victory in a quarterfinal game that had 12 lead
changes and 10 ties.
The RedHawks (31-1) were the fifth men's Division I program this century to go
undefeated during the regular season. Now it's the second to get tripped up in
its conference tournament. St. Joseph's lost to Xavier in the 2004 Atlantic 10
quarterfinals but was still a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Miami was the first squad since Gonzaga in 2020-21 to not have a loss going
into a conference tournament.
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