Full Game Notes: Longwood at Charleston Southern (PDF)

Game 17: Longwood at Charleston Southern
Saturday, January 10, 2015 • 5:30 p.m.
Charleston, S.C. • CSU Fieldhouse (881)
Big South Network • WVHL 92.9 FM • WHAP 1340 AM

The Opening Tip
•    Longwood plays at Charleston Southern Saturday just two days after a 76-70 defeat at reigning Big South Champion Coastal  Carolina Thursday.
•    Longwood's first four conference games are against four of the Big South's top five vote-getters in the league's preseason poll. Longwood has faced preseason No. 1 Coastal Carolina, No. 3 Radford and No. 4 Winthrop and will take on preseason No. 5 Charleston Southern Saturday.
•    Of Longwood's last five losses, four have come after the Lancers cut the deficit to one possession in the final minute of regulation. Longwood was within two points of tying reigning Big South champion Coastal Carolina in the final minute Thursday.
•    Longwood has endured three overtime periods in the past three games, including double-OT in a 90-79 win against Radford on Jan. 3.

Last Time Out
•    Coastal Carolina guard Shivaughn Wiggins hit six straight free throws in the final 1:06 to thwart a late Longwood comeback and lift Coastal Carolina to a 76-70 win Thursday evening at The HTC Center.
•    With Longwood (5-11, 1-2 Big South) forced to foul late to regain possession, Wiggins earned three trips to the free throw line in the final 1:06 and knocked down all six foul shots to fend off a charge that saw the Lancers cut a 12-point deficit to 72-70 with 13 seconds remaining.
•    Longwood center Lotanna Nwogbo put the Lancers within two points with a tip-in at the 13-second mark to cap a double-double effort that included 23 points and 10 rebounds.
•    Longwood posted season-bests for Coastal Carolina opponents in field goal percentage (.531) and three-point percentage (.563).

By The Numbers
•    Longwood has the third-most productive scoring trio in the Big South. The three-player tandem of Quincy Taylor (16.1 ppg.), Lotanna Nwogbo (13.6) and Shaquille Johnson (12.9) combine to average 42.6 points per game, the third-highest scoring average of any three leading scorers in the Big South. All three of those Lancers rank among the Big South's top 15 in scoring.
•    Longwood leads the Big South in both forced turnovers (241) and steals (116). Longwood is 3-1 when forcing at least 20 turnovers.
•    Redshirt junior center Lotanna Nwogbo has double-doubles in three straight games heading into Saturday's contest. Nwogbo is averaging 19.3 points and 12.0 rebounds during that stretch. He has five double-doubles on the year.
•    Quincy Taylor has scored in double figures in 11 straight games and in 12 of his 13 games overall.
•    Freshman guard Ryan Badowski was held scoreless in a 58-53 loss at UMBC on Dec. 14 but has rattled off four double-digit scoring games in six games games since. Badowski is averaging 12.8 points per game during that stretch while shooting 17-of-31 (.548) from three-point range. The scoreless game against UMBC was the only such game of his career.
•    Badowski is the Big South's leading freshman scorer at 10.1 points per game. He is the only league freshman averaging double-digit scoring.
•    Junior guard Leron Fisher is averaging 10.8 points, 3.2 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game over his past five contests. Fisher is Longwood's leader in made free throws (26), free throw attempts (29) and free throw percentage (.897) during that stretch.
•    Longwood is 3-0 when forward Damarion Geter leads the team in assists. Geter has recorded three or more assists four times while helping Longwood to a 3-1 record in those games. Geter, 6-7 and 215 pounds, averages 1.4 assists per game with a 1.01:1 assist-to-turnover ratio.

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