The Opening Tip
• In the final regular-season home game of a breakout season under first-year head coach
Griff Aldrich, Longwood hosts Campbell and the nation's leading scorer Chris Clemons Saturday in Willett Hall.
• The game will mark the final regular-season home game for the senior duo of
Spencer Franklin and
Damarion Geter, two veterans who have helped Longwood record the second most wins in the program's Division I era. Franklin came to Longwood as a junior, while Geter is in his sixth year in the program and fifth as a team captain.
• Longwood has played back-to-back overtime games in Willett Hall, falling to Gardner-Webb 89-88 and overcoming USC Upstate 83-79.
• Longwood is 8-4 this season in games decided by six points or fewer. The Lancers have won four of their past five such contests.
• Longwood is 9-4 in Willett Hall, the fifth-best home winning percentage in the D-I era..
Last Time Out
• On a night in which Longwood broke the school's single-season three-point record, Hampton spoiled the Lancers' celebration by riding 24 points from Jermaine Morrow to an 86-66 win Thursday evening at the Hampton Convocation Center.
• Marrow knocked down 8-of-20 field goals and led a second-half charge that saw the Pirates turn a two-point halftime lead to double digits with under 10 minutes remaining. Kalin Fisher joined Marrow in double figures with 19 points, and Trevond Barnes added 13 points and a pair of blocks.
• That effort was enough to overcome a career-high 27 points from
Jaylon Wilson and another hot-shooting effort from three-point range by the Lancers, who knocked down 11-of-22 treys en route to breaking the school's single-season record for made three-pointers.
• Sophomore forward
Jordan Cintron hit the record-breaker in the first half.
By The Numbers
• Saturday's game will be the last regular-season home contest for graduate student
Damarion Geter and senior
Spencer Franklin.
• Geter, a sixth-year member of the program and fifth-year captain, ranks fourth in school history in blocks (103), tied for fourth in games played (123) and seventh in rebounds (599).
• Franklin leads Longwood in both offensive rebounds (48) and field goal percentage (.512) in his senior season.
• Longwood is 6-0 when junior guard Seán Flood scores in double figures.
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Shabooty Phillips is the Big South's leading free throw shooter at 88.1 percent (89-of-101), which would rank as the third-highest single-season mark in school history.
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Jaylon Wilson has enjoyed his best six-game stretch of the season of late, scoring in double figures in five of those games while averaging 14.7 points per game. Wilson is shooting .516 (16-of-31) from three-point range during that span.
• The 2018-19 Lancers, in their first year under head coach
Griff Aldrich, have already amassed the second most overall wins in the program's 15-year Division I era. Only the 2008-09 Lancers, then a Division I Independent, won more games, going 17-14 that year.
• Of Longwood's 15 wins, 12 have come against Division I foes, which is the most D-I victories in program history.
• Longwood has broken school records for both made three-pointers and attempted three-pointers this season. The Lancers are just 17 treys shy of becoming the first Longwood team to hit 300.
• Longwood has held eight of its past 15 opponents under 30.0 percent shooting from three-point range. Thirteen of Longwood's 29 foes have shot under 30.0 percent from long range.
Quotable
"That's what we saw when we recruited him. He was an aggressive scorer. He's very quick with the ball. He can shoot it. ... I think you're seeing a little bit more of his offensive aggressiveness that we were hoping we would see."
— Head coach
Griff Aldrich on junior guard
Jaylon Wilson, who has scored in double figures in five of his past six matches
Series History
• Longwood and Campbell meet for the second time this season and 19th time in series history Saturday in Willett Hall.
• Campbell took the first matchup of the year 83-62 in Buies Creek, N.C. behind 39 points from Chris Clemons, who hit 10 three-pointers in the game.
• The Lancers are 7-5 against Campbell since joining the Big South in 2012-13. That is Longwood's best record against any Big South foe.
• Longwood has won six of the past nine matchups, though Campbell has taken two in a row. Longwood's last win over the Fighting Camels came on Jan. 15, 2018, 76-62 in Willett Hall.
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