The Opening Tip•   Longwood and Presbyterian meet for the second time this season after the Blue Hose took the last matchup, 78-65, in Clinton, S.C., on Jan. 6.
•   Thursday's game will be the final home contest of the season for Longwood and the last appearance on their home court for seniors
Leron Fisher,
Shaquille Johnson,
Lotanna Nwogbo and
Tra'Vaughn White. Fisher and Nwogbo were part of head coach
Jayson Gee's first recruiting class at Longwood, while Johnson and White were part of Gee's second class.
•   Longwood welcomes America's Got Talent finalist Stevie Starr for Thursday's halftime show.
•   Sophomore guard
Kanayo Obi-Rapu is questionable for Thursday's game with an illness. Obi-Rapu, who averages a team-high 16.7 points at home, missed last Saturday's game at Gardner-Webb.
Last Time Out•   Dylan Poston scored a career-high 22 points on his senior night to lift Gardner-Webb to an 81-71 win over Longwood Saturday at Paul Porter Arena.
•   Poston knocked down three of Gardner-Webb's 13 three-pointers on a night that started with a 12-0 run that put the Lancers in a hole they were never able to escape.
•   The senior Poston was one of four double-figure scorers for the Runnin' Bulldogs, who got 16 points from Isaiah Ivey, 15 from Adonis Burbage and 10 from Tyrell Nelson.
•   Gardner-Webb led by as many as 24 points before halftime before Longwood outscored them 46-33 in the second half. Longwood finished with a +13 rebounding margin thanks to a 14-point, 11-rebound double-double from
Lotanna Nwogbo and 16 points and nine boards from
Shaquille Johnson.
 By The Numbers•   The Lancers are 3-3 in games decided by one possession this season. Two of those victories came on the road and in overtime, winning at Columbia 70-69 and at Charleston Southern 78-76.
•   Senior
Shaquille Johnson has dished a team-high 73 assists in just 17 games this season, good for an average of 4.3 per game. That would rank tied for second in the Big South if Johnson met the games played minimum.
•   Johnson has at least five assists in five of his past six games, including a season-high matching seven in his last game at Gardner-Webb.
•   Johnson has scored in double figures in 10 of his 17 games. He has at least 10 rebounds in four games.
•   Senior
Lotanna Nwogbo has six consecutive double-doubles and double-doubles in seven of his past nine games. His 12 double-doubles on the season lead the Big South. Nwogbo has posted 10 of his double-doubles in Big South play.
•   Nwogbo has more dunks (49) by himself than Longwood's opponents (40) this season.
•   Nwogbo leads the Big South in rebounding (8.1rpg.) and double-doubles while ranking second in field goal percentage (.568 — 159-of-280) and sixth in scoring (15.01 ppg.).
•   Senior
Tra'Vaughn White leads all Big South players with 35.9 minutes per game in conference-only contests. White, who has missed time this season with a broken hand and a broken foot, has played 30-plus minutes in 12 straight games, including a career-high 49 in a 78-76 double-overtime win at Charleston Southern on Feb. 6.
•   White has scored in double figures in 11 of his past 12 games, averaging 16.7 points during that span.
•   Junior guard
Darrion Allen leads the Big South with a .484 (45-of-93) three-point percentage. He is shooting .622 (23-of-37) from three-point range over his past six games with at least four treys in four of those games.
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