{"id":164303,"date":"2026-03-16T12:12:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=164303"},"modified":"2026-03-16T12:12:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T16:12:34","slug":"raiders-set-to-face-virginia-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/03\/16\/raiders-set-to-face-virginia-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament\/","title":{"rendered":"Raiders will face Virginia in first round of NCAA Tournament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/03\/16\/raiders-set-to-face-virginia-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament\/march-madness-frist-round\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-164308\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-164308\" src=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/files\/2026\/03\/march-madness-frist-round-508x281.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a>Fresh off the 2026 Horizon League regular season and tournament championships, the Wright State University men\u2019s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Championship for the fifth time in NCAA Division I program history, where the Raiders will take on Virginia on Friday, March 20, at 1:50 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The game will air on TBS and the Wright State Radio Network. The Raiders learned their opponent Sunday night during the live \u201cSelection Show\u201d on CBS.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders will take on the Virginia Cavaliers in Philadelphia as part of the Midwest Regional.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State punched its ticket to the NCAA Championship last Tuesday night in comeback fashion with a 66-63 victory over Detroit Mercy in the Horizon League title game, with\u00a0Kellen Pickett\u00a0blocking a potential game-tying layup in the closing moments after a pair of late three-pointers from\u00a0Logan Woods\u00a0and 19 points from tournament MVP\u00a0TJ Burch.<\/p>\n<p>The Raiders enter the NCAA Championship with a 23-11 overall record and winners of 18 of their last 22 games.<\/p>\n<p>Wright State won the outright Horizon League regular season and tournament titles in the same season for the first time in program history, while eclipsing the 20-win mark this season for the 15th time in its Division I history.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Ticket information<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Ticket request information for following the Raiders in the NCAA Tournament is available at <a href=\"https:\/\/wsuraiders.com\/news\/2026\/3\/12\/mens-basketball-2026-ncaa-tournament-ticket-request\">wsuraiders.com\/news\/2026\/3\/12\/mens-basketball-2026-ncaa-tournament-ticket-request<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Wright State men&#8217;s basketball team will play Virginia in the first round of NCAA Tournament on Friday, March 20, at 1:50 p.m. in Philadelphia. <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2026\/03\/16\/raiders-set-to-face-virginia-in-first-round-of-ncaa-tournament\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":164311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2798,725,715],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics","category-home-news-sidebar","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=164303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164319,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164303\/revisions\/164319"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/164311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}