{"id":1391,"date":"2024-02-07T21:35:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T02:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=1391"},"modified":"2024-02-08T22:22:02","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T03:22:02","slug":"royals-stun-mustangs-with-game-winning-layup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2024\/02\/07\/royals-stun-mustangs-with-game-winning-layup\/","title":{"rendered":"Royals Stun Mustangs with Game-Winning Layup"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.<\/strong> \u2013 Mid-Atlantic Christian led by as many as 16 points in the second half but a buzzer-beating layup closed the deal as the Mustangs fell to non-conference rival Regent 82-80 Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACU (5-14 overall, 2-2 NSAC) started with a strong lead and led by 14 points at halftime, pushing the margin to 16 early in the second half, but the visiting Royals (1-14) began to chip away and took their first lead at 69-68 with less than six minutes to play. Neither team could gain separation after that, and a Darrin Clark layup with 2.7 seconds remaining was the difference maker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Leading the Mustangs was sophomore Noah Richardson-Keys with 27 points, four steals, and seven rebounds. Senior Talik Totten followed with 19 points while sophomore Joshua Tyler added 17.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clark led the Royals with 19 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACU hosts Blue Lights College Saturday at 2:00 pm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/regentroyals.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">regentroyals.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. \u2013 Mid-Atlantic Christian led by as many as 16 points in the second half but a buzzer-beating layup closed the deal as the Mustangs fell to non-conference rival Regent 82-80 Wednesday night. MACU (5-14 overall, 2-2 NSAC) started with a strong lead and led by 14 points at halftime, pushing the margin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1393,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1391","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\/1391","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=1391"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1396,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1391\/revisions\/1396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}