The Opening Tip
•   Longwood begins the second half of the Big South schedule Saturday with a road matchup at Gardner-Webb. The Lancers won the first meeting this season between the teams, 79-73, for their first Big South win of the year.
•   Longwood went 3-6 in the first half of the conference schedule and currently occupies the eighth spot in the Big South standings. The 3-6 start ties the program's best start through nine games of Big South play, matching last year's squad that won its first three conference games.
•   The last Big South foe Longwood swept in the regular season was Campbell in 2015-16.Â
•   Longwood's three highest scoring games against Division I teams this season all came in January. The Lancers have averaged 69.2 points per game this month, the team's highest monthly scoring average this season.
Last Time Out
•   All-Big South forward Xavier Cooks scored 26 points and led a second-half charge that saw Winthrop overcome a three-point halftime deficit and topple Longwood 95-78 Wednesday in Willett Hall.
•   Cooks led the way for Winthrop's Big South-leading offense, finishing 11-of-16 from the field and dishing a team-high six assists. His 20-point game led the Eagles to their fifth straight win and a spot in the top three of the Big South standings.
•   Winthrop guards Anders Broman, Bjorn Broman, Adam Pickett and Kyle Zunic all scored in double figures with Anders Broman scoring 18.
•   Longwood and Winthrop traded hot starts to each half with the Lancers opening the game on a 16-5 run en route to a 44-41 halftime lead. Longwood redshirt senior
B.K. Ashe scored 21 points and hit four of the Lancers' nine three-pointers the first  half.
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By The Numbers
•   Longwood has three players in their fifth season of college basketball, all at the Division I level. Those three include redshirt senior guards and Mount St. Mary's transfers
B.K. Ashe and
Charles Glover, and fourth-year Longwood team captain
Damarion Geter. Combined, those three have played in 306 games and made 158 starts.
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B.K. Ashe leads the Big South with 35.3 minutes per game, making him the third-most heavily used Lancer under head coach
Jayson Gee. Only
Darrion Allen in 2016-17 (36.3 mpg) and Quincy Taylor in 2014-15 (36.0) logged more minutes per game.
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Damarion Geter is in the midst of his best season, averaging career highs in points (7.0), rebounds (6.9), assists (2.2) and blocks per game (1.1), as well as free throw percentage (.558). Geter has become Longwood's most consistent scorer in the post and is shooting .578 from the field with a career-high six double-digit scoring games.
•   Geter entered the 2017-18 season averaging 1.7 field goal attempts per game but has more than doubled that number with 4.6 attempts per game this year. He is also getting to the line more, taking more free throws this season (52) than he did in his previous four seasons combined (38).
•   Longwood is holding opponents to a .312 (181-of-581) three-point shooting percentage, the lowest in the Big South and the 31st lowest in the nation.
•   In 16 games with
Charles Glover in the lineup,
B.K. Ashe has 53 assists and 52 turnovers (1.02 A:TO ratio). In four games without him, Ashe has nine assists and 19 turnovers (0.5 A:TO).
•   The backcourt contingent of
B.K. Ashe,
Charles Glover and
Isaiah Walton has produced 52.5 percent of Longwood's scoring this season. Those three rank as the conference's third-highest scoring guard trio at 39.8 points per game.
•   Longwood is 3-1 when Ashe, Glover and Walton all score in double figures.
Series History
•   Longwood and Gardner-Webb meet for the second time this season and 19th time in series history Saturday in Boiling Springs, N.C.
•   Longwood's 79-73 win over Gardner-Webb earlier this season was the Lancers' first in the series since joining the Big South in 2012-13. Gardner-Webb is 9-1 against Longwood during that span.
•   All but one of the 10 games between the schools since 2012-13 have come during the regular season.
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Isaiah Walton has scored at least 18 points in all three of his meetings against Gardner-Webb and is averaging 19.0 points per game in the series. He scored 18 Â in the first meeting this season.
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