Game 22: Longwood (6-15, 3-7 Big South) vs. High Point (12-10, 6-4 Big South)
Date	February 1, 2017
Time	7 p.m.
Location	Farmville, Va. (Willett Hall)
Game Notes	Longwood (PDF) | High Point | Big South
Season Statistics	Longwood (PDF) | High Point (PDF)
Live Stats	Longwood Live Stats
Radio	WVHL 92.9 FM Kickin' Country
Video	Big South Network
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

The Opening Tip
•    After picking up their first win over High Point in the Jayson Gee era earlier this season, the Lancers host the Panthers Wednesday in Willett Hall.
•    Longwood outlasted High Point 60-55 on the road in the first meeting this season for the second win of a three-game win streak.
•    Longwood is down to just seven available scholarship players after a rash of injuries. Most recently, redshirt sophomore point guard Bryan Gee was shut down for the season due to prolonged overtraining syndrome stemming from offseason surgery. Damarion Geter (broken foot), Jahleem Montague (torn ACL) and Juan Munoz (torn ACL) are also on the team's long-term injury report, while Kendrick Thompson will miss the remainder of the year due to academic reasons.
•    Senior guard Darrion Allen is just 20 points shy of reaching 1,000 for his career.

Last Time Out
•    In a showdown of two of the Big South's top big men, Presbyterian forward Ed Drew poured in 21 points and grabbed nine rebounds to power the Blue Hose past Longwood 71-62 Saturday evening in the Templeton Center.
•    Drew did the bulk of his damage from the free throw line, hitting 9-of-13 free throws as Presbyterian avenged the Lancers' 79-76 win in the first meeting between the teams on Jan. 4.
•    Drew's performance was enough to overcome a 16-point, 11-rebound double-double from his foil in the paint, Khris Lane, who played all 40 minutes for short-handed Longwood.
•    Drew scored 11 of his points in the second half to hold off a late charge by the Lancers, who trailed by just two points with 9:51 to play.
•    Longwood also got 13 points from senior guard Darrion Allen and 12 from Chris Shields.

By The Numbers
•    Due to a rash of injuries, Longwood has leaned on just six players to shoulder the bulk of the team's minutes. The Lancers have five players averaging at least 20.0 minutes per game and three — Darrion Allen (35.6 mpg.), Khris Lane (33.3) and Isaiah Walton (31.2) — averaging at least 30.0 minutes per game.
•    Khris Lane is Longwood's leading scorer in the second half of games this season, averaging 9.0 points over the game's final 20 minutes. He shoots .561 (74-of-132) from the field and .441 (15-of-34) from three-point range in the second half and has scored at least 10 points in the second half a team-high eight times this season.
•    Lane has scored in double figures in 10 consecutive games and leads Longwood with 17 double-digit scoring games.
•    Darrion Allen is just 20 points shy of reaching 1,000 points for his career. A member of head coach Jayson Gee's first recruiting class at Longwood, He would become the sixth 1,000-point scorer of the school's Division I era and the 21st in program history.
•    Longwood ranks second in the Big South with 4.1 blocks per game and has three players — JaShaun Smith (5th, 1.3 bpg.), Khris Lane (6th, 1.1 bpg.) and Darrion Allen (9th, 0.9 bpg.) — ranked in the top 10 in blocks per game.
•    Smith, Lane and Allen have as many or more combined blocks (65) than five Big South teams.
•    After carding just two double-digit scoring games in his first 20 outings, sophomore forward Chris Shields has scored in double figures in back-to-back games. Shields started Longwood's last game at Presbyterian on Jan. 28 and played a career-high 38 minutes, scoring 12 points.
•    Longwood is 4-0 when outrebounding the opposition this season, including all three Big South wins.
•    Freshman forward JaShaun Smith has a block in 12 consecutive games.

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