The Opening Tip
•   The Lancers host Charleston Southern Thursday in Willett Hall in the first of their final two home games of the regular season. Longwood follows with road trips to Winthrop and High Point and returns to Willett Hall on Feb. 24 to host Radford in the home and regular-season finale.
•   Longwood has played its best basketball in Willett Hall this season, averaging 70.6 points and shooting .435 from the floor at home. The Lancers average just 57.4 points and shoot .397 on the road.
•   The injury-ravaged Lancers have used 13 different starting lineups this season but have stuck with the same starting five of
B.K. Ashe,
Spencer Franklin,
Damarion Geter,
Charles Glover and
Isaiah Walton in seven straight games.
•   Cousins and teammates
B.K. Ashe and
JaShaun Smith are the only Lancers to have played in all 28 games this season.
Last Time Out
•   Campbell guard Chris Clemons scored a game-high 25 points to maintain his foothold atop the Big South scoring leaderboard and lead the Fighting Camels to an 88-54 win over Longwood Saturday afternoon at the Pope Convocation Center.
•   The Big South Preseason Player of the Year, Clemons posted his league-leading 15th 20-point game, shot 10-of-18 from the floor and 5-of-10 from three-point range while adding a team-high eight rebounds and three assists.
•   Longwood entered the game with the Big South's top three-point defense, but Campbell hit 16 treys and shot better than 40 percent in both halves.
•   Longwood's
B.K. Ashe and
Isaiah Walton finished with 12 and 13 points, respectively, while forward
Damarion Geter neared a double-double with nine points and nine rebounds. Freshman
Kamil Chapman added eight points off the bench.
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By The Numbers
•   Forward
Damarion Geter leads Longwood with a 1.4:1 assist-to-turnover ratio this season. The 6-8, 235-pound "point forward" averages 2.1 assists per game and has the second most assists on the team this season.
•   Geter ranks second among Big South forwards in assists per game, trailing only Winthrop's Xavier Cooks, who averages 3.6. Geter and Cooks are the only players 6-foot-8 or taller to rank among the Big South's top 40 in that category.
•   Geter has already cracked Longwood's top 10 in career blocks. He has 76 career rejections, which ranks eighth in program history, fifth on the Division I list and first in the
Jayson Gee era.
•   All three of guard
B.K. Ashe's double-doubles have come at home this season.
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Isaiah Walton is averaging 3.4 assists and a 1.6:1 assist-to-turnover ratio over his past five games. Walton's 17 assists during that stretch are his most in a five-game span all season.
•   Walton has led Longwood in assists in five consecutive games, his longest stretch of the season.
•   Walton has scored in double figures in 18 of his 21 games this season and in 40 of his 51 career games at Longwood.
•   Walton is just 16 points away from reaching 800 in his college career. He has scored all 800 of those in just two seasons at Longwood and is on pace to become the 22nd 1,000-point scorer in Longwood men's basketball history. He would be the ninth player in the Division I era to reach that mark.
•   Sophomore forward
JaShaun Smith is a career .430 (40-of-93) shooting from three-point range. That percentage would rank atop Longwood's career list if he were to meet the minimums of two seasons and 50 made three-pointers.
•   Longwood has the Big South's top three-point defense, holding opponents to a conference-low .321 (221-of-689) clip from beyond the arc.
Series History
•   Longwood and Charleston Southern meet for the second time this season and 13th time in series history Thursday in Farmville. Charleston Southern holds a narrow 7-5 lead in the all-time series, including a 5-4 mark since Longwood joined the Big South in 2012-13.
•   Longwood's last win against Charleston Southern came in the first round of the 2016 Big South Championship. That was Longwood's third in a row in the series, but the Buccaneers have since won four straight, including earlier this season.
•   Redshirt junior
Damarion Geter has the most game experience against Charleston Southern, having played in five games over the past four years.
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