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The Basics:
Score: Ohio 75, Miami 60
Location: The Convocation Center - Athens, Ohio
The Short Story: The Ohio women's basketball team (25-4, 16-2 MAC) closed out the regular season against Miami (7-22, 4-14 MAC) with a 75-60 victory, sending out senior Mariah Byard with a victory in her final game at the Convocation Center.

OHIO STARTERS: #2 Mariah Byard, #4 Kiyanna Black, #5 Quiera Lampkins, #14 Kat Yelle, #15 Jasmine Weatherspoon
MIAMI STARTERS: #14 Courtney Larson, #15 Kayla Brown, #24 Baleigh Reid, #12 Hannah McCue, #25 Molly McDonagh



How It Happened:
- After jumping out to an 8-4 lead, the Bobcats held the RedHawks without a field goal for 9:41, going on a 13-0 run to take a 21-4 lead at the 8:51 mark of the first half.
- Ohio put on a defensive clinic in the first half, limiting Miami to making just 6-of-26 (23.1 percent) of its field goals and forcing 10 turnovers.
- The Bobcats' offense was clicking as they shot 14-of-26 (53.8 percent) from the field and 6-of-14 (42.9 percent) from behind the arc to provide them with a 40-19 halftime lead.
- Quiera Lampkins and Kiyanna Black led the Bobcats with eight points each while Mariah Byard, Mariah Harris and Hannah Boesinger each notched six points.
- Kayla Brown was Miami's leading scorer in the opening stanza, scoring eight points.
- A 12-3 run by the RedHawks cut Ohio's lead to 51-35 with 15:05 remaining in the game.
- Miami saw an uptick in offense in the second half, shooting 10-of-34 (29.4 percent) from the field in the second stanza.
- Ohio shot 25-of-51 (49 percent) from the field for the game and 11-of-26 (42.3 percent) from three-point range.
- Black led the Bobcats with 18 points and eight rebounds.
- Lampkins added 13 points for Ohio.
- Byard and Boesinger each scored 12 points.
- The RedHawks went 16-of-59 (27.1 percent) and hit 3-of-18 (16.7 percent) attempts from behind the arc.
- Miami went 25-of-29 (86.2 percent) from the free throw line.
- Brown was Miami's leading scorer with 19 points.
- Molly McDonagh also scored 10 for the RedHawks.

BEYOND THE BOX SCORE
- The game marked the fifth time this season the Bobcats held an opponent below 20 points in the first half.
- Black reached double digits in scoring for the 26th time this season the 53rd time in her Ohio career.
- Ohio has won 16 games in the MAC for the first time since 1985-86.
- The last time the Bobcats won 25 games was in the 1985-86 campaign.
- Ohio has won back-to-back games against Miami for the first time since 2011.

QUOTABLE
Head Coach Bob Boldon:
"At this point, my pregame talk for this game was about a minute long. It's the 29th game of the year. I can't give you anything at this point. You're stuck with your habits. We can maybe tinker with some small adjustments, maybe encourage and remind and things of that nature. We're certainly not teaching anything brand new this week. We're pretty much who we are and we'll find out if that's good enough to win the (MAC) Tournament."

Senior guard Mariah Byard:
"Playing without two players (Lexie Baldwin and Tmisht Stinson), the rotations, being in foul trouble; it was different. But you never know what's going to happen, so we won and that's good."



COMING UP
The Bobcats head to Cleveland for the MAC Tournament with a double-bye, playing their first game as the top seed on Friday, March 13 at 12 p.m. against an opponent to be determined.

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