Full Game Notes: Longwood at Iowa (PDF)

Game Seven: Longwood at Iowa
Saturday, November 29, 2014 • 2:07 p.m.
Iowa City, Iowa • Carter-Hawkeye Arena (15,400)
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The Opening Tip
• Longwood concludes a stretch of six consecutive road games this Saturday at Iowa. Longwood has played those six games in a span of 11 days.
• The Iowa game will mark Longwood's second straight against a top-40 RPI team. Longwood fell, 91-66, Wednesday at George Washington, ranked No. 36 in the Ratings Percentage Index. Iowa is ranked No. 30 in ESPN's most recent RPI.
• Redshirt junior center Lotanna Nwogbo ranks among the Big South's top five in points per game, rebounds per game, field goal percentage and free throw percentage.
• Longwood has forced opponents into 103 turnovers this season, the most of any team in the Big South. The Lancers force an average of 17.2 turnovers per game and average 17.3 points per game off those turnovers.

Last Time Out
• George Washington's starting five combined for 66 points to lead the Colonials to a 91-66 win over Longwood Wednesday.
• Point guard Joe McDonald neared a triple-double with eight points, seven assists and 10 rebounds, while John Kapriva scored 19 points on 6-of-8 shooting from the field.
• Longwood center Lotanna Nwogbo recorded his second double-double of the year with career highs of 25 points, 13 rebounds and 10-of-11 shooting from the field.
• Nwogbo's performance came against a George Washington team that had surrendered the fewest points per game in the Atlantic 10 and had not allowed a 20-point scorer all season. Nwogbo is only the second player to hit more than five field goals against George Washington this season.

By The Numbers
• Longwood has forced opponents into a conference-leading 103 turnovers, which is 17 more than the next closest Big South team. The Lancers have forced at least 10 turnovers in all six games this season and are averaging 17.2 points per game off opponent turnovers.
• Longwood is the only team in the Big South with four players averaging double-digit scoring. Lotanna Nwogbo (16.3 ppg.), Ryan Badowski (12.3), Quincy Taylor (10.7) and Shaquille Johnson (10.3) and are all averaging double figures.
• Led by center Lotanna Nwogbo, Longwood is averaging 32.7 points in the paint per game over the past three games. That output has increased from the 27.3 points in the paint per game Longwood averaged over its first three games.
• Center Lotanna Nwogbo has scored in double figures in all six games this season and leads Longwood with 16.3 points per game. Nwogbo is averaging 18.3 points and 9.0 rebounds per game over his last three outings.
• Nwogbo is the Big South leader in field goal percentage, hitting 66.1 percent (37-of-56) of his shots from the floor. Nwogbo is also among the league's top free throw shooters, sinking .857 (24-of-28) of his shots from the charity stripe.
• Junior guard Shaquille Johnson has dished out at least three assists in every game this season and has scored in double figures four times. He leads Longwood with 22 assists.
• Freshman guard Ryan Badowski has made at least three treys in four of his six games and has hit at least one trey in every game. He leads all NCAA freshmen with 19 made three-pointers and is shooting .358 (19-of-53) from three-point range to rank fifth in the Big South in three-point shooting percentage.
• Sophomore guard Darrion Allen is tied for second in the Big South with two 20-point games. Allen's 20-point outbursts came in back-to-back games against James Madison (20 pts.) and UNCG (22).

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