{"id":123830,"date":"2026-03-15T19:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tech.einnews.com\/article\/899671265"},"modified":"2026-03-15T19:38:27","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T22:38:27","slug":"akron-will-face-texas-tech-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/2026\/03\/15\/akron-will-face-texas-tech-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Akron will face Texas Tech in first-round of NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) – After winning their third-straight MAC Tournament Championship, Akron is headed to the Big Dance. <\/p>\n

The Zips are a 12-seed, and will face 5-seed Texas Tech on Friday in Tampa, Florida. <\/p>\n

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12 seed Akron will face 5 seed Texas Tech on Friday in Tampa, FL<\/p>\n

\u2014 Leah Doherty (@LeahDohertyTV) March 15, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

The Zips (29-5, 17-1) are in the NCAA Tournament for the third consecutive year after defeating Toledo 79-76 to become the first MAC men\u2019s team to three-peat as the conference\u2019s tournament champ, earning an automatic bid to March Madness.<\/p>\n

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… will face 5-seed Texas Tech<\/span> on Friday in Tampa, Florida … will face 5 seed Texas Tech<\/span> on Friday in Tampa, FL …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123830"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123830\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new7.shop\/zerocostfreehost\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}