The Opening Tip
•   Fresh off a 68-55 upset over No. 7 seed High Point, the Lancers have earned a trip to the Big South Championship quarterfinals where they will face No. 2 seed Radford at 1 p.m. in UNC Asheville's Kimmel Arena.
•   Longwood has advanced to the quarterfinal round of the Big South postseason in three of the past four years. The Lancers reached the 2015 semifinals by upsetting No. 1 seed Charleston Southern in the quarterfinals.
•   Prior to Tuesday's first-round win over High Point, only five active players on Longwood's roster had played in a Big South Championship game:
Dominic Ezeani,
Damarion Geter,
Chris Shields,
JaShaun Smith and
Isaiah Walton.
•  Â
Damarion Geter has the most Big South Championship experienced of any Lancer, having played in five postseason games during his career.
Last Time Out
•   Longwood's backcourt trio of
B.K. Ashe,
Charles Glover and
Isaiah Walton all scored in double figures to spark Longwood to a 68-55 first-round upset of No. 7 seed High Point in the opening round of the 2018 Big South Championship.
•   Playing on High Point's home court, the No. 10 seed Lancers controlled the game from the start, staking a 25-7 lead en route to the program's third first-round win in the past four Big South Championships.
•   Walton and Glover scored 14 points apiece, while Ashe added 12.
Spencer Franklin added nine points off the bench, while
Damarion Geter and
JaShaun Smith both started and scored eight.
•   Longwood harassed High Point on the defensive end, forcing 17 turnovers and holding the Panthers to their lowest scoring total on their home court all season.
Â
By The Numbers
•   Following Longwood's 68-55 win over No. 7 seed High Point in Tuesday's Big South Championship first round, the Lancers are headed back to the quarterfinals for the third time in the past four seasons.
•   Longwood, now in its sixth years as a member of the Big South, is 5-5 all-time in the Big South Championships and 4-2 in the opening round.
•   Redshirt junior
Damarion Geter has the most Big South postseason experience on Longwood's roster, having played in five tournament games. Geter missed the 2015 and 2016 tournaments as part of back-to-back season-ending injury-related absences that limited him to just three games from 2015-17.
•   Longwood is 3-2 in Big South Championship games that Geter has played in. He has started all five of those games.
•   Longwood is 4-1 this season in games that guards
B.K. Ashe,
Charles Glover and
Isaiah Walton all score in double figures. The most recent of those was Tuesday's win against High Point when the trio combined for 40 of Longwood's 68 points.
•   Against High Point, Longwood set the program's Big South Championship records for fewest points allowed (55) and most steals (12).
•   Longwood seniors
B.K. Ashe and
Charles Glover have played four of their five seasons of college basketball together. They began their career together as freshmen at Mount St. Mary's before Ashe transferred to Longwood in 2016-17 and Glover followed him as a graduate transfer before this season.
•   Ashe and Glover were both part of the 2013-14 NEC Champion Mount St. Mary's team. Glover won a second NEC title at The Mount in 2016-17.
•  Â
Isaiah Walton has led Longwood in scoring a team-high 14 times this season while scoring in double digits in 22 of his 27 games.
Series History
•   Longwood and Radford will meet for the third time this season and second time in less than a week Thursday in the quarterfinal round of the 2018 Big South Championship.
•   Radford won both regular-season matchups this season, including a 70-47 win in the season finale this past Saturday.
•   Longwood and Radford have never met in the Big South Championship.
•  Â
Isaiah Walton is Longwood's active leading scorer in the series against Radford, averaging 13.3 points in four games.
Damarion Geter has played the most games against Radford with six.
#GoWood
