Longwood University Athletics

Game 11: Longwood (3-7) vs. Cornell (3-4)
Date	December 16, 2017
Time	2 p.m.
Location	Farmville, Va. (Willett Hall)
Game Notes	Longwood (PDF) | Cornell (PDF)
2017-18 Season Statistics	Longwood (PDF) | Cornell (PDF)
Live Stats	Longwood Live Stats
Radio	WVHL 92.9 FM Kickin' Country
Video/TV	Big South Network | Shentel Channel 81
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

The Opening Tip
•    Longwood plays its final home game in the month of December when it hosts Ivy League foe Cornell this Saturday for a 2 p.m. tipoff in Willett Hall.
•    Longwood is 3-3 against Ivy League schools in five seasons under head coach Jayson Gee. Cornell is Longwood's second Ivy League foe this season after falling 87-77 to Columbia on Nov. 14.
•    Saturday's game breaks up a grueling road stretch in which Longwood plays five of six games away from home. The Lancers played back-to-back road games at VMI and Illinois and will return to the road next week with trips to No. 5 Arizona State Tuesday and 7-2 Grand Canyon Thursday. Longwood then opens Big South play at Charleston Southern on Dec. 30.
•    Isaiah Walton is Longwood's top scorer at home this season, averaging 21.5 points per game.

Last Time Out
•    A pair of 20-point nights from Aaron Jordan and Trent Frazier spearheaded a runaway performance from one of the Big Ten's top offenses as Illinois upended Longwood 92-45 Wednesday night at State Farm Center.
•    Jordan poured in a game-high 22 points, while Frazier added 20 to power the Fighting Illini to back-to-back 40-point halves against the short-handed Lancers. Illinois' second-leading scorer Michael Finke added 19 on 8-of-10 shooting to finish as one of four double-figure scorers for Illinois.
•    Longwood, playing without injured starters Damarion Geter and Charles Glover, got 10 points from JaShaun Smith and eight apiece from B.K. Ashe and Chris Shields.
•    Shields grabbed six rebounds to lead Longwood in rebounding for the fifth straight game.

By The Numbers
•    Longwood has the Big South's top three-point defense, holding opponents to a conference-low .296 (82-of-277) shooting percentage from beyond the arc. Only Columbia (.410) and Saint Francis (.346) have shot better than 33.3 percent from long range against Longwood this season.
•    Longwood has had at least two key players out due to injury in six of the pas seven games. Most recently against Illinois, Longwood was without starting forward Damarion Geter and starting guard Charles Glover. 
•    The only four players to have played in all 10 of Longwood's games this season are starters B.K. Ashe and Chris Shields, and reserve contributors JaShaun Smith and Kamil Chapman.
•    Longwood has deployed a different starting lineup in seven consecutive games. B.K. Ashe and Chris Shields are the only two players to have started every game this season.
•    Longwood averages a team-high 1.82 points per minute when redshirt junior Isaiah Walton is on the floor. Walton ranks fourth in the Big South with 17.2 points per game.
•    Longwood allows a team-best 1.59 points per minute when Spencer Franklin is on the floor. Since Franklin made his debut five games ago, Longwood is holding opponents to .387 (126-of-326) shooting from the field, compared to .441 (135-of-306) in five games prior.
•    Junior forward Chris Shields has led Longwood in rebounding in five straight games after doing so just once in the first 49 games of his career. Shields is averaging 9.2 rebounds per game during that five-game stretch while hauling in 27.2 percent of Longwood's total rebounds.
•    Fourth-year team captain Damarion Geter is averaging career highs of 8.5 points and 6.3 rebounds per game and shooting a career-best .667 (18-of-27) from the field.

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