{"id":3150,"date":"2026-02-04T22:36:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:36:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=3150"},"modified":"2026-02-04T22:36:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T03:36:35","slug":"apprentice-topples-macu-79-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2026\/02\/04\/apprentice-topples-macu-79-71\/","title":{"rendered":"Apprentice Topples MACU 79-71"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C<\/strong>. &#8211; Jahlil Hope scored 23 points and Devon Brown grabbed 13 rebounds as Apprentice defeated Mid-Atlantic Christian 79-71 Wednesday night, handing the Mustangs their first conference loss of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Builders (12-7 overall, 4-2 NSAC) dominated the boards, outrebounding the Mustangs 47-29.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACU (7-11, 3-1) led 30-26 at halftime, but AS went on a 13-3 second-half run to take the lead and pull away, leading by as many as 12. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jabari Bracket came off the bench to add 17 points while Wayne Hedgepeth had 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tyus Williams led the Mustangs with 17 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The loss knocks MACU from the NSAC unbeaten column and clinches the tournament top seed for URBE University, which has finished its conference slate at 6-0.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Image courtesy Kaitlyn Olson @shotsbyk8lyn<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. &#8211; Jahlil Hope scored 23 points and Devon Brown grabbed 13 rebounds as Apprentice defeated Mid-Atlantic Christian 79-71 Wednesday night, handing the Mustangs their first conference loss of the season. The Builders (12-7 overall, 4-2 NSAC) dominated the boards, outrebounding the Mustangs 47-29. MACU (7-11, 3-1) led 30-26 at halftime, but AS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,17,11,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apprentice","category-macu","category-news","category-urbe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150","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=3150"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3154,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3150\/revisions\/3154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}