{"id":3078,"date":"2026-01-15T19:46:29","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=3078"},"modified":"2026-01-15T19:47:12","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:47:12","slug":"mustangs-roll-past-wwc-89-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2026\/01\/15\/mustangs-roll-past-wwc-89-66\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustangs Roll Past WWC 89-66"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. <\/strong>&#8211; Mid-Atlantic Christian University used a dominant first half to pull away from Warren Wilson College and cruised to an 89\u201366 non-conference victory Wednesday night.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Mustangs outscored the Owls 49\u201343 after halftime and shot 55.3% from the field in the second half to turn a manageable halftime lead into a comfortable win. MACU (5-9 overall, 1-0 NSAC) finished the game shooting 48.1% overall and held Warren Wilson to 41.7%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;This was great victory for the team,&#8221; said Mustangs head coach Charles Sims. &#8220;We played a tough first half of the season against NCAA DI, DII and DIII opponents that prepared us for games like today.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Janus Shepherd led the Mustangs with 20 points, hitting three 3-pointers and adding five rebounds. Stewart Clough added 13 points and five rebounds, while Tyus Williams chipped in 10 points and six boards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;The team&#8217;s mindset from the start was to defend our home court, and they did exactly that,&#8221; Sims added. &#8220;Janus Shepherd&#8217;s contribution for the team was tremendous along with Stew Clough and Tyus Williams. This was an all-out team effort, and now we must continue to take a one-game-at-a-time approach to reach the vision that the team has for completing this season.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Warren Wilson was led by Kharye Bland, who scored 15 points, and Tyah Williams, who added 13, but the Owls struggled from long range, making just 4 of 24 attempts from beyond the arc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACU forced 22 turnovers and turned them into 25 points, helping the Mustangs build a lead that grew to as many as 29 points in the second half.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image courtesy Carl Lewis<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. &#8211; Mid-Atlantic Christian University used a dominant first half to pull away from Warren Wilson College and cruised to an 89\u201366 non-conference victory Wednesday night. The Mustangs outscored the Owls 49\u201343 after halftime and shot 55.3% from the field in the second half to turn a manageable halftime lead into a comfortable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3078","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\/3078","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=3078"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3082,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3078\/revisions\/3082"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}