{"id":659006,"date":"2026-03-15T03:10:39","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:10:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/659006\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T03:10:39","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T03:10:39","slug":"scotts-deep-3-point-bomb-sends-akron-past-toledo-79-76-for-3rd-straight-mac-crown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/659006\/","title":{"rendered":"Scott’s deep 3-point bomb sends Akron past Toledo, 79-76 for 3rd straight MAC crown"},"content":{"rendered":"

CLEVELAND \u2014 Reserve Shammah Scott scored 12 points and his 25-foot, 3-point basket with six seconds left helped Akron to a 79-76 win over Toledo in the Mid-American Conference title game on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Austin Parks’ desperation 3-point attempt for Toledo bounced off the back of the rim and fell to the floor as time expired.<\/p>\n

Amani Lyles scored 15 points and grabbed 16 rebounds, Tavari Johnson scored 15 and Bowen Hardman 12 for Akron (29-5).<\/p>\n

Leroy Blyden Jr. scored 21 points, Parks and reserve Kyle Vanderjagt scored 13 apiece and Sean Craig 10.<\/p>\n

Toledo appeared poised to knock off the conference’s second-best regular season team \u2014 after Miami, Ohio \u2014 by building a 42-30 halftime lead.<\/p>\n

The Rockets built their lead on the strength of 53% (17 of 32) shooting including 53% (8 of 15) from 3-point range.<\/p>\n

But Akron regrouped early in the second half and outscored Toledo 21-6 in a 7-minute span \u2014 which also included a 15-0 run \u2014 and turned a 48-36 deficit into a 57-54 lead with 10:17 remaining.<\/p>\n

\"Akron<\/p>\n

Akron forward Amani Lyles (0) dunks in front of Toledo center Austin Parks (25) in the first half of an NCAA college basketball game in the championship of the Mid-American Conference tournament, Saturday, March 14, 2026, in Cleveland. Credit: AP\/Sue Ogrocki<\/p>\n

In earning the conference’s automatic NCAA Tournament berth, the No. 2-seed Zips earned their third-straight tournament championship and fourth in its last five years.<\/p>\n

It’s the first time a MAC program has earned three-straight conference championships. <\/p>\n

Toledo made its eighth MAC championship game with its lone win in 1980.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND \u2014 Reserve Shammah Scott scored 12 points and his 25-foot, 3-point basket with six seconds left helped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":659007,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,319,217,231,772,1544,2148],"class_list":{"0":"post-659006","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-college","10":"tag-college-basketball","11":"tag-ncaa","12":"tag-ncaa-basketball","13":"tag-ncaab","14":"tag-wires-bot"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116231008760831457","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=659006"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/659006\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/659007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=659006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=659006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=659006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}