Full Game Notes: Longwood at Presbyterian (PDF)
 
Game 23: Longwood (6-16, 2-7 Big South) at Presbyterian (7-15, 3-6 Big South)
Wednesday, January 28, 2015 • 7 p.m.
Clinton, SC. • Templeton Center (2,000)
 
Broadcast Information
Video Stream: Big South Network (www.bigsouthsports.com/events/)
Radio: WVHL 92.9 FM – Farmville (www.wvhl.net)
Radio: WHAP 1340 AM – Hopewell (http://sportsradio1340.info/)
 
The Opening Tip
• Longwood and Presbyterian square off for the second time this season in a rematch of a barnburner Presbyterian won, 71-67, in Farmville on Jan. 14.
• Presbyterian will be the first Big South foe Longwood has faced twice this season.
• In the last meeting between Longwood and Presbyterian, Longwood's Quincy Taylor shot 5-of-9 from three-point range and scored 23 points.
• Longwood is the second-leading three-point shooting team in the Big South, shooting a 36.6 percent (174-of-476) this season. Guards Quincy Taylor and Ryan Badowski combine to shoot  45.1 percent (100-of-222) from beyond the arc.
• Center Lotanna Nwogbo (12.9 ppg., 8.2 rpg.) will miss 4-6 weeks after undergoing surgery Jan. 16 to repair a torn thumb ligament. Nwogbo started the first 17 games of the season before suffering the injury on Jan. 10 at Charleston Southern.
 
Last Time Out
• UNC Asheville's Andrew Rowsey and Jaleel Roberts combined for 38 points on 13-of-22 shooting to lead the Bulldogs past Longwood, 74-64, in Farmville.
• Rowsey poured in 24 points to tie for the most points by an opposing player in Willett Hall this season, while Roberts scored 14 points with six rebounds in just 16 minutes of play.
• Rowsey and Roberts did enough to withstand 25 points from Longwood point guard Quincy Taylor, who scored 20-plus for the third straight home game. Taylor paced Longwood with 3-of-6 shooting from three-point range and a career-best 8-of-10 from the free throw line.
• Presbyterian outrebounded Longwood 49-32 for the Lancers' largest rebounding deficit of the season. The Blue Hose scored 13 points on second-chance opportunities.
 
By The Numbers
• Point guard Quincy Taylor is on pace to break Longwood's single-season three-point shooting percentage record. Taylor sits atop the list with a .505 (51-of-101) clip and would be the first Lancer to shoot higher than .470 in a season.
• Taylor's .505 three-point percentage ranks third nationally and first in the Big South.
• The Lancers lead the Big South with 339 forced turnovers this season and average 15.4 points off turnovers per game. Longwood also leads the league with 174 steals, thanks in part to guard
Leron Fisher's conference-best 43 steals.
• Freshman guard Ryan Badowski was held scoreless last game against UNC Asheville, only the second scoreless game of his career. The last time Badowski did not score in a game, he responded by scoring in double figures in four of his next five games and averaged 14.2 points per game during that stretch.
• Junior forward Shaquille Johnson (13.1 rpg., 3.3 apg.) is one of only six Big South players averaging at least 3.0 assists and 10.0 points per game.
• Freshman forward Victor Dorsey has played 10-plus minutes in five consecutive games. His increase in playing time coincides with the absence of injured center Lotanna Nwogbo. Dorsey had played more than 10 minutes in just one of his first 11 games before Nwogbo went down on Jan. 10.
• Dorsey averages 8.4 rebounds per 40 minutes, the second-highest average on the team behind only Nwogbo (10.9).
• Junior guard Leron Fisher has scored in double figures in seven of his past eight games and is averaging 14.6 points per game during that stretch. Fisher scored in double figures in just one of his first 14 games and averaged 5.3 points per game during that span.
• Freshman guard Kanayo Obi-Rapu has hit a three-pointer in eight consecutive games and is shooting .500 (11-of-22) from three-point range during that stretch.
 
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