TOLEDO, Ohio -- Elijah Minnie scored 25 points, Paul Jackson added 16, including the game-winning 3-point play with 8.8 seconds left, and second-place Eastern Michigan beat first-place Toledo 71-69 on Friday in the Mid-American Conference Western Division finale for both teams.
Both teams have a first-round bye in the 2018 MAC Tournament, where MAC West champion Toledo is the No. 2 seed and EMU is No. 4. But with the loss, the Rockets (21-10, 13-5) miss a chance to tie MAC East Division member Buffalo for the overall regular-season crown.
EMU led 33-31 at halftime and neither team led by more than seven in the second half.