The Opening Tip
•   In a bid to open the season 4-0 at home, Longwood hosts Randolph Friday evening for a 7 p.m. tipoff in Willett Hall.Â
•   The game will bookend a three-game homestand during which the Lancers will play all three games in a span of four days. Longwood won the first two of those in one-sided fashion, 85-55 over Maryland Eastern Shore and 86-77 over St. Francis.
•   Longwood leads the Big South in both field goal percentage (.498) and three-point field goal percentage (.421).Â
•   Longwood has deployed a deep rotation this season, using at least 10 players in every game. Seven Lancers are averaging at least 5.8 points per game with
Jaylon Wilson (12.0 ppg.),
Christian Wilson (11.0) and
Shabooty Phillips (10.0) all averaging double figures.
•   Following Friday's game, Longwood will play six consecutive road games.
Last Time Out
•   Behind 23 points and four assists from
Shabooty Phillips, Longwood continued to assert its home-court dominance and improved to 3-0 in Willett Hall with an 86-77 win over St. Francis Brooklyn.
 •   The Terriers became the latest victim of Longwood's high-scoring offense, unable to stop the Longwood senior backcourt tandem of Phillips and
Jaylon Wilson who led the charge with a combined 37 points.
•   The Lancers' performance was their second straight 80-point game and came once again in the confines of Willett Hall where they have outscored their three home opponents by an average of 20.3 points per game.
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Juan Munoz delivered 10 points and two assists off the bench, while
Jordan Cintron knocked down 3-of-3 three-pointers on the way to matching a career high with 14 points.Â
By The Numbers
•   Longwood is 13-5 at home in Willett Hall in its two seasons under head coach
Griff Aldrich. The Lancers are 3-0 at home for the second straight season.Â
•   Dating back to last year's two games in the College Basketball Invitational, Longwood has scored at least 80 points in four of its past six outings. The Lancers scored 85 this past Tuesday in a 30-point win against Maryland Eastern Shore and surpassed that mark two nights later in last night's 86-77 win over St. Francis.
•   In those four 80-point games, guards
Shabooty Phillips and
Jaylon Wilson have combined for two 20-point performances and an average of 31.3 points per game.
•   Dating back to 2018-19, Longwood is 6-4 when both Phillips and
Jaylon Wilson score in double figures together.Â
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Jaylon Wilson has scored at least 10 points in 12 of his past 15 games and is averaging a team-high 14.4 points per game during that stretch.Â
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JaShaun Smith has hit 99 three-pointers in his four-year career and sits atop Longwood's all-time three-point shooting percentage list with a .391 (99-of-253) clip. He has hit at least one trey in seven consecutive games and is 5-of-6 from beyond the arc this season.
•   Longwood's bench has made major contributions in the first two games of the season, averaging 37.0 points, 21.5 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game. Non-starters have accounted for 47.9 percent of Longwood's points, 62.3 percent of the team's rebounds and 51.0 percent of the assists.
Christian Wilson is averaging 11.0 points per game, all off the bench.Â
•   Longwood's team is the tallest in school history with an average height of 6-foot-4. Nine of the team's 14 players are 6-5 or taller.
Quotable
"We like to get 275-plus passes every game. That's definitely a point of emphasis for us."
— Senior guard
Shabooty Phillips following Longwood's 86-77 win over St. Francis Thursday
Series History
•   Longwood and Randolph meet for the second straight season to renew a series that began in 2015.
•   Last year's matchup came in Longwood's season opener and saw the Lancers run away with an 84-56 win that was the first victory of head coach
Griff Aldrich's career.
•   Each of the first two meetings took place on Longwood's home court in Willett Hall.
•   Longwood has had a 20-point scorer in each of the first two meetings in the series. The Lancers have also hit at least 10 three-pointers in both of those games to open the series.
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