{"id":1397,"date":"2024-02-10T17:17:06","date_gmt":"2024-02-10T22:17:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=1397"},"modified":"2024-02-10T17:17:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T22:17:06","slug":"blc-holds-macu-at-bay-92-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2024\/02\/10\/blc-holds-macu-at-bay-92-83\/","title":{"rendered":"BLC Holds MACU at Bay 92-83"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. &#8211;<\/strong> Blue Lights College continued to stake its claim for the top seed in the upcoming NSAC men&#8217;s basketball tournament with a 92-83 conference win at Mid-Atlantic Christian Saturday afternoon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACU (5-15 overall, 2-3 NSAC) opened up a 5-0 lead in the first minute and 21 seconds, but the Thoroughbreds (12-5, 5-1) would tie the game three times before taking a 16-14 lead on a Jaye Bookhart field goal at 13:55. Elijah Cox would tie the game again for the Mustangs on two free throws 13 seconds later, but a 2-pointer by Sam Benton Jr. at 13:15 to play in the first would give BLC a lead they would never relinquish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Blue Lights would hold a 50-45 advantage at halftime and extend it to as many as 14, 80-66, with 7:54 remaining.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Benton&#8217;s double-double of 14 points and 12 rebounds led a balanced attack for the Thoroughbreds, who had five players in double-figure scoring. Noah Richardson-Keys led MACU with a double-double of 26 points and 10 boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image courtesy USCAA Sports Network and MACU Athletics<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. &#8211; Blue Lights College continued to stake its claim for the top seed in the upcoming NSAC men&#8217;s basketball tournament with a 92-83 conference win at Mid-Atlantic Christian Saturday afternoon. MACU (5-15 overall, 2-3 NSAC) opened up a 5-0 lead in the first minute and 21 seconds, but the Thoroughbreds (12-5, 5-1) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1398,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blue-lights-college","category-macu","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397","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=1397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1399,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1397\/revisions\/1399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}