{"id":576,"date":"2023-01-12T07:37:35","date_gmt":"2023-01-12T12:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/?p=576"},"modified":"2023-01-13T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2023-01-13T21:08:40","slug":"totten-gifts-macu-with-winning-bucket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/2023\/01\/12\/totten-gifts-macu-with-winning-bucket\/","title":{"rendered":"Totten Gifts MACU with Winning Bucket"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C.<\/strong> &#8211; Mid-Atlantic Christian senior Talik Totten decided to give his team a gift on his birthday. The guard from Ahoskie, NC drained a three with 4.2 seconds remaining to lift MACU to a 70-68 win over visiting Virginia Peninsula in the Mustang&#8217;s NSAC opener.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The victory, and how they obtained it, was a test for head coach Charles Sims&#8217; team.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I saw something new emerge from the team tonight that I knew we have had all the time and that was true grit and just the determination to get it done,&#8221; said Sims. &#8220;This was yet another game that pushed us to another level.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That level is now a statistical tie with Apprentice atop the NSAC standings. The Herd improved to 6-6 overall with the win. VPCC dropped to 7-4 overall and 1-1 in conference play.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Each team fought hard with nine lead changes and eight ties. Neither team led by more than 8 points.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>MACU&#8217;s Noah Richardson-Keys led all scorers with 22 points and grabbed 9 rebounds. Totten added 16 points, including the game winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;For him to hit that shot at a pivotal moment that secured the lead was awesome,&#8221; beamed Sims after the game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Gators&#8217; Javion Majette led VPCC with 17 points while Keshaun Johnson marked a double-double, 14 points along with 10 boards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ELIZABETH CITY, N.C. &#8211; Mid-Atlantic Christian senior Talik Totten decided to give his team a gift on his birthday. The guard from Ahoskie, NC drained a three with 4.2 seconds remaining to lift MACU to a 70-68 win over visiting Virginia Peninsula in the Mustang&#8217;s NSAC opener. The victory, and how they obtained it, was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":577,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-macu","category-virginia-peninsula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576","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=576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":585,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576\/revisions\/585"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsouthconference.com\/mbb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}