FARMVILLE, Va. – Longwood senior guard Darrion Allen held the spotlight on Jerome Kersey Court for one brief moment in the closing minute before High Point snatched it right back.
 
Longwood's newest member of the 1,000-point club hit that milestone with 41 seconds left on the clock, but the Panthers stole the show for nearly the full 40 minutes thanks to a game-breaking performance from three-point range that propelled them to their sixth straight win, 92-68 over Longwood (6-16, 3-8 Big South) Wednesday evening in Willett Hall.
 
High Point (13-10, 7-4 Big South) knocked down 12 three-pointers, including 9-of-12 in the first half, to offset 20 points from Allen on his historic night and another 24 from Lancer forward Khris Lane. Miles Bowman Jr. who scored a team-high 24 points off the bench for High Point, and Anthony Lindauer who poured in 19 -- also off the bench -- to help High Point avenge Longwood's 60-55 New Year's Eve win in High Point in the first meeting this season.
 
Fresh off an 83-80 overtime win at preseason favorite and first-place Winthrop this past Saturday, the Panthers got balanced production from five double-figure scorers to overcome the combined 44 points from Allen and Lane, both of whom put together their fifth 20-point performances of the season.
 
Allen's final two points – which fittingly came from the free throw line on a night when he shot 9-of-10 from the stripe – put him into quadruple digits for his career, making him the sixth Lancer in Longwood's Division I era to join the 1,000-point club.
 
"What a tremendous kid, a leader in the program," said fourth-year head coach Jayson Gee, who signed Allen as part of his first recruiting class at Longwood. "Great attitude, hard worker and a defensive player. Unfortunately he's a little more drained right now than I'd like because of the wear and tear of the season and what we've asked of him. But he's been a really, really a spectacular contributor. You're in a unique class when you score 1,000 points."
 
That unique class includes only 21 players in Longwood's 39 seasons of basketball, just six of which have joined the club since the Lancers began their Division I realignment in 2004-05 and five of which have done so entirely within Longwood's 10 years of full-fledged Division I competition.
 
The 20 points that put Allen over the top Wednesday came on 5-of-14 shooting from the field and marked his third 20-point outburst in his past six games. Unfortunately for the short-handed Lancers, High Point more than made up for his offensive effort with a 53-point first half that put the Lancers in a halftime hole they struggled to overcome the rest of the way.
 
"I'm happy for him because he's had so little to celebrate," Gee said. "He had such high expectations for himself and his team his senior year, and then those guys go down. His roommate, [Damarion] Geter –  I call them Batman and Robin because they're so close – when he went down, that took a lot out of him, physically and mentally."
 
Allen is one of the few survivors of a 2016-17 season that has claimed four Lancers to potential season-ending injuries, including Geter, who alongside Isaac Belton made up Gee's first Longwood recruiting class.
 
"DJ came here with my first recruiting class, and he's proven to be who we thought he would be," Gee said. "I hate the adversity he's had to go through, but that's life. When you can have a milestone like that, I'm really happy for him."
 
Allen made a late surge to reach that milestone, scoring 13 points after halftime and teaming with Lane to make a second-half run that cut High Point's lead from 25 to nine with 11:50 to play. Those two combined for 17 points during the 24-9 rally in which the Lancers shot 9-of-12 from the field and turned over High Point six times.
 
"Isaiah Walton began pressuring the ball from the point, and we were able to handle the ball screen," Gee said of the late surge. "DJ Allen was DJ Allen, and we made an adjustment where we put Lane on the opposite post guy and JaShaun [Smith] on Bowman. That was a matchup we tinkered with before the game, and of course hindsight's 20-20. If I had a chance to do it over again, I would have started them like that because I think that second half was really a positive thing."
 
Bowman scored just six points after that halftime adjustment, and Longwood matched the Panthers 39-39, but the 53-29 halftime deficit proved too much to overcome.
 
 "I thought in the second half we turned up our defense and went on a run, cut their lead to nine, and then just didn't carry it through when we got to that point," Gee said. "My hat's off to our team for how they fought back, but we have to be able to take it to another level."
 
Jamal Wright, Tarique Thompson and Andre Fox also scored in double figures for the four-time reigning Big South regular season champion Panthers, who climbed back into the Big South's top four with Wednesday's win.
 
Isaac Belton added 10 points, two blocks, two assists and a steal off the bench for Longwood, his career-best fifth double-figure scoring game of the season.
 
The Lancers (6-16, 3-8 Big South) hit the road Saturday to take on Gardner-Webb at noon in Boiling Springs, N.C.
 
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