Game 17: Longwood (6-10, 3-2 Big South) vs. Gardner-Webb (9-9, 2-3 Big South)
Date	January 14, 2017
Time	2 p.m.
Location	Farmville, Va. (Willett Hall)
Game Notes	Longwood (PDF) | Gardner-Webb | Big South
Season Statistics	Longwood (PDF) | Gardner-Webb (PDF)
Live Stats	Longwood Live Stats
Radio	WVHL 92.9 FM Kickin' Country
Video	ESPN3
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

The Opening Tip
•    Longwood returns home to Willett Hall for the first time since Jan. 4 to host Gardner-Webb Saturday on ESPN3. The game will be Longwood's first self-produced ESPN3 broadcast from Willett Hall.
•    Longwood is 5-2 in Willett Hall, including back-to-back Big South wins over Campbell and Presbyterian. The Lancers are 3-1 at home since renaming the court Jerome Kersey Court on Dec. 3.
•    Longwood point guards Bryan Gee and Isaiah Walton are both questionable for Saturday's game. Both left Wednesday's game against UNC Asheville with injuries with 16 minutes remaining.
•    Saturday's game is presented by Longwood Dining Services and is Longwood Alumni Family Game Day. Longwood alumni are invited to return to campus with their families to take in a day of  food, fun, basketball and camraderie with their fellow Lancers.

Last Time Out
•    In a showdown of first-place teams, reigning Big South champion UNC Asheville got a pair of 27-point efforts from Ahmad Thomas and Macio Teague en route to an 89-68 win over Longwood Wednesday evening in Kimmel Arena.
•    Teague, the Big South's leading freshman scorer, went off for 17 points in the first half, and Thomas took over with 22 points in the second half. 
•    Thomas and Teague provided enough firepower to offset a Herculean effort from Longwood forward Khris Lane, who scored a career-high 32 points on 12-of-17 shooting. He was the lone Lancer in double figures, as UNC Asheville held the rest of the Longwood lineup to just 36 points.
 •    The already short-handed Lancers suffered another blow in the second half when point guards Isaiah Walton and Bryan Gee both missed the game's final 16 minutes to injuries.
 
By The Numbers
•    At 3-2, Longwood is above .500 through its first five Big South games for the first time since joining the conference five seasons ago. The Lancers, who won their first three games to start conference play, had never started better than 1-4 in the Big South prior to this season's 3-0 start.
•    Longwood's three Big South wins have all come by no more than two possessions, defeating Campbell 79-77, High Point 60-55 and Presbyterian 79-76. The Lances entered the final two minutes of those three games either tied, trailing or leading by no more than two possessions.
•    Longwood is 5-2 in Willett Hall this season with three consecutive wins. Longwood averages 76.3 points per game at home this season compared to 60.9 on the road. The Lancers also shoot .418 (56-of-134) from three-point range in Willett Hall, compared to .322 (58-of-180) on the road.
•    After outrebounding just one of their first 11 opponents, Longwood has outrebounded three of its five league foes. That mark follows the -9.5 rebounding margin Longwood logged in non-conference play.
•    Longwood is 4-0 when outrebounding the opposition this season.
•    Senior Darrion Allen scored in double figures in both meetings against Gardner-Webb last season, averaging 17.0 points and 7.5 rebounds in those two matchups while shooting 7-of-11 (.636) from three-point range.
•    Senior guard Isaac Belton has started all five Big South games and is averaging 7.2 points per game during that span. Belton, who entered his senior season without a single career start and just 2.3 points per game, has scored in double figures a career-high four times this season, including in two of his past three games.
•    Guards Darrion Allen and Isaiah Walton and forward Khris Lane are the third-highest scoring trio in the Big South, averaging 42.6 points per game.

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