{"id":3214,"date":"2026-03-03T12:30:40","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:30:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2026-03-03T12:30:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T17:30:41","slug":"the-on-court-battle-between-the-regional-campuses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/2026\/03\/the-on-court-battle-between-the-regional-campuses\/","title":{"rendered":"The On-Court Battle Between the Regional Campuses"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><\/p>\n<cite>By Paige Auxier&#8212;<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Last week, the Miami University Hamilton Harriers men\u2019s basketball team closed out<br>their regular season by facing off against their rivals, the Miami Middletown ThunderHawks, on<br>their home court.<br>At the start of the game, the Harriers\u2019 Terrell Pollard defeated the ThunderHawks Alex<br>Mullins for the ball at the tip-off. This marked the start of a successful game for Pollard, who<br>served as the team\u2019s leading scorer with his 22-point contribution.<br>The score remained relatively close during the initial part of the game. Halfway through<br>the first half, the Harriers held a small lead of four points against their opponent, with the score<br>being 22-18. Their lead progressively grew throughout the half, though, and by the end of it, the<br>score was 37-24.<br>The game was a success for Harriers\u2019 Shaeden Olden as well, who scored a total of 12<br>points and led the team in rebounds, steals, and assists. In one particularly exciting instance<br>towards the end of the first half, Olden broke away with a steal from the ThunderHawks and,<br>upon reaching the Harrier\u2019s end of the court, lobbed the ball against the backboard for teammate<br>Terrell Pollard to complete an uncontested dunk.<br>Midway through the second half, the score stood 53-37 with Harriers leading by 18<br>points. Ultimately, despite a good fight on the part of the visiting ThunderHawks, the Harriers<br>held their lead for the remainder of the game, defeating them 72-52.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"548\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/files\/2026\/03\/7fab392b-df18-43d4-8521-de51d3682898-1024x548.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-3220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/files\/2026\/03\/7fab392b-df18-43d4-8521-de51d3682898-1024x548.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/files\/2026\/03\/7fab392b-df18-43d4-8521-de51d3682898-300x161.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/files\/2026\/03\/7fab392b-df18-43d4-8521-de51d3682898-768x411.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/files\/2026\/03\/7fab392b-df18-43d4-8521-de51d3682898-600x321.png 600w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/files\/2026\/03\/7fab392b-df18-43d4-8521-de51d3682898-1536x823.png 1536w, https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/files\/2026\/03\/7fab392b-df18-43d4-8521-de51d3682898-2048x1097.png 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This game concluded both teams\u2019 regular seasons; however, there\u2019s still more basketball<br>ahead for the Hamilton Harriers. In fact, both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s teams qualified for the<br>USCAA Small College Basketball National Championship. The sixth-seeded men\u2019s team will<br>play Southern Maine Community College on March 4th at 10:30 P.M, while the third-seeded<br>women\u2019s team is scheduled to face Villa Maria College on the same day at 3:45. So, be sure to<br>stay tuned for the results of their games next week!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>By Paige Auxier&#8212; Last week, the Miami University Hamilton Harriers men\u2019s basketball team closed outtheir regular season by facing off against their rivals, the Miami <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/2026\/03\/the-on-court-battle-between-the-regional-campuses\/\" title=\"The On-Court Battle Between the Regional Campuses\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":9463,"featured_media":3218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-communities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9463"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3221,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/3221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/mu-regional-pulse\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}