The Opening Tip
•   Five games remain in Longwood's regular season, including back-to-back home games this week in Willett Hall. The Lancers host UNC Asheville at 5 p.m. Saturday and Winthrop at 7 p.m. Wednesday.
•   Prior to Saturday's game, Longwood will recognize senior guard
Darrion Allen for scoring his 1,000th career point on Feb. 1 against High Point. Allen is the fifth player in Longwood's 10-year Division I era to reach the 1,000-point plateau.
•   Longwood is down to just seven available scholarship players after a rash of injuries. Most recently,
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.
Last Time Out
•   Chris Clemons scored 25 points and hit 3-of-4 free throws in the final 13 seconds to close out a wild finish that saw Campbell do just enough to outlast a short-handed Longwood squad, 83-79, Thursday evening at the Pope Convocation Center.
•   Taking on an injury-ravaged Longwood team that used just six players for all but the final three seconds of the game, Campbell needed a late stand in the closing minute to ward off the Lancers.
•   Longwood mounted a 19-7 run during a six-minute span late in the second half to turn an 11-point deficit into a 71-70 lead with 2:38 remaining.
•   That lead was short-lived, however, as Campbell freshman Marcus Burk answered with a go-ahead three-pointer on the next possession to put the Fighting Camels ahead for good.
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Isaiah Walton scored a career-high 28 points for Longwood, while
Darrion Allen added 18.
By The Numbers
•   In the last meeting with UNC Asheville,
Khris Lane erupted for 32 points, shooting 12-of-17 from the floor. He was the lone Lancer to score in double figures as the rest of the lineup scored just 36 points and shot .303 (10-of-33) from the floor.
•   Lane has scored in double figures in 14 consecutive games, averaging 18.6 points during that span. He has scored in double figures in a team-high 21 of his 24 games.
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Isaiah Walton has 20-plus points in back-to-back games, including a career-high 28 in Thursday's 83-79 loss at Campbell. Those 20-point efforts come after Walton failed to score in double figures in his previous three games, his longest such stretch without a double-figure effort this season.
•   Walton is averaging 13.8 points per game in his first season as a Lancer, the second-best scoring clip for a first-year Longwood player in the Division I era. A redshirt sophomore who began his collegiate career at UC Davis in 2014-15, Walton trails only former UAB transfer Quincy Taylor, who averaged 17.2 points per game as a redshirt senior in 2014-15, on that Longwood list.
•   Due to a rash of injuries, Longwood has leaned on six players to shoulder the bulk of the team's minutes. Five Lancers average at least 20.0 minutes per game and three —
Darrion Allen (35.7 mpg.),
Khris Lane (33.7) and
Isaiah Walton (31.3) — averaging at least 30.0 minutes per game.
•   Allen has been on the court for a team-high 857 minutes this season, which equates to 89.3 percent of available minutes through Longwood's first 24 games. Lane has also been deployed for 84.2 percent of Longwood's minutes this season.
•   Longwood forward
JaShaun Smith had a block in 14 consecutive games before snapping that streak Thursday against Campbell. That 14-game tear is the longest of Longwood's 10-year Division I era, surpassing
Lotanna Nwogbo's nine-game streak in 2015-16.
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