Miami (Ohio) 56, at Tennessee 78

PHILADELPHIA (Interstat) — A season of historic achievement for Miami (Ohio) met the relentless, suffocating pressure of tournament-tested Tennessee on Friday afternoon, and the Volunteers’ pedigree proved decisive. In a men’s NCAA Division I playoff game at Xfinity Mobile Arena, seed Tennessee dismantled the 11th-seeded Redhawks 78-56, using a dominant first-half offensive explosion to end Miami’s remarkable 32-win campaign. A crowd of 19,686 saw the Volunteers seize control almost immediately and never relent, building a 51-32 halftime lead that effectively decided the contest. The most important stretch of the game came in the opening 20 minutes, where Tennessee’s combination of… Read more...