{"id":1194,"date":"2023-11-27T13:27:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=1194"},"modified":"2023-11-27T21:16:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-28T02:16:53","slug":"key-matchups-highlight-post-thanksgiving-slate-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2023\/11\/27\/key-matchups-highlight-post-thanksgiving-slate-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Key Matchups Highlight Post-Thanksgiving Slate This Week"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After a needed Thanksgiving Day break, New South teams return to action this week to a slate of interesting matchups.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue Lights opens the week on Tuesday by hosting the JV team from Livingstone, The Thoroughbreds (4-2) hope to end a two-game slide by getting key players back from injuries.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Wednesday night is Rivalry Night in Miami as Atlantis (3-2) hosts cross-town foe United International College. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s officially called the Roger Taylor Classic, but Apprentice (5-1) and MACU (1-4) consider the weekend of games in Rocky Mount, North Carolina to be the &#8220;NSAC-USA South Showdown.&#8221; On Friday, the Builders face Greensboro College and the Thoroughbreds tackle\u00a0NC Wesleyan. They switch opponents on Saturday. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Central International (4-4) gets back to action on Monday, December 4, taking on a much-improved Patrick Henry College team. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lighthouse (5-2) will try to knock the rust off from a two-week layoff when it travels to Atlantis on December 6. It will mark the first-ever NSAC conference game for both teams.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After a needed Thanksgiving Day break, New South teams return to action this week to a slate of interesting matchups.&nbsp; Blue Lights opens the week on Tuesday by hosting the JV team from Livingstone, The Thoroughbreds (4-2) hope to end a two-game slide by getting key players back from injuries.&nbsp; Wednesday night is Rivalry Night [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1198,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,23,12,15,24,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apprentice","category-atlantis","category-blue-lights-college","category-cic","category-lighthouse","category-macu","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194","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=1194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1200,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1194\/revisions\/1200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}