{"id":1170,"date":"2023-11-15T14:13:47","date_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:13:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=1170"},"modified":"2023-11-15T14:13:47","modified_gmt":"2023-11-15T19:13:47","slug":"mustangs-drop-exhibition-at-nccu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2023\/11\/15\/mustangs-drop-exhibition-at-nccu\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustangs Drop Exhibition at NCCU"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>DURHAM, N.C<\/strong>. \u2013 Redshirt senior Ja&#8217;Darius Harris and junior Keishon Porter lit up McDougald-McLendon Arena from distance, combining for seven three-pointers in NCCU&#8217;s 113-50 victory over Mid-Atlantic Christian in an exhibition game Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sophomore forward Joshua Tyler led the Mustangs with 15 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our goal was to work on our defense and score 50 points,&#8221; MACU coach Charles Sims said after the game. &#8220;We did that. One of their players said to me, &#8216;You&#8217;re changing the defense every time down the floor.&#8217; I told him, &#8216; We have to keep you on your toes.'&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Our guys know that this is a process. We&#8217;re not where we want to be, but we&#8217;re in a good place,&#8221; said Sims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs (1-2 overall, 1-0 NSAC) face cross-town rival Elizabeth City State tonight. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Story details courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/nccueaglepride.com\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"nccueaglepride.com\">nccueaglepride.com<\/a>; image courtesy <a href=\"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/team\/mid-atlantic-christian-university\/\" data-type=\"sp_team\" data-id=\"93\">gomacumustangs.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DURHAM, N.C. \u2013 Redshirt senior Ja&#8217;Darius Harris and junior Keishon Porter lit up McDougald-McLendon Arena from distance, combining for seven three-pointers in NCCU&#8217;s 113-50 victory over Mid-Atlantic Christian in an exhibition game Tuesday evening. Sophomore forward Joshua Tyler led the Mustangs with 15 points. &#8220;Our goal was to work on our defense and score 50 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1171,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macu","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1170"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1172,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170\/revisions\/1172"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1171"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}