Women's Basketball Huddle
The Opening Tip
• Longwood puts their 5-2 record in Willett Hall to the test as the Lancers welcome the preseason Big South favorite, the Highlanders of Radford University to Farmville.
• Tuesday's game is the Lancers 'Education Day' as Longwood attempts to break the single-game attendance record of 1,374 fans in Willett Hall.
• Opening Big South play with a 4-1 record has the Lancers two conference wins away from matching the best Big South start in program history.
• Longwood's offense leads the Big South in scoring with an average of 67.4 points per game, while also leading the conference in field goal percentage, shooting .406 from the floor.
• Tra'Dayja Smith earned college Sports Madness Mid-Major Conference Player of the Week for the Big South by collegesportsmadness.com after her historic week for the Lancers.
Last Time Out
• Securing their fourth victory in Big South play, Longwood defeated USC Upstate on the road 70-62. The Lancers finished with all five starters in double-figures with Kyla McMakin leading the offense with 16 points.
• Joining McMakin in double-figures was Tra'Dayja Smith (14), Dayna Rouse (12), Anne-Hamilton LeRoy (11), and Akila Smith (10). The last time Longwood finished with 4+ double-figure scorers was February 23, 2019, against Hampton.
• The Lancers continued their trend of holding opponents below 40 percent shooting from the floor with the Spartans converting on only 30 percent of their shots.
• Andrijana Reljic finished with a team-high three blocks contributing to the Lancers six blocks against USC Upstate.
By the Numbers
• Fresh off a week where Tra'Dayja Smith recorded the first triple-double in the Division I era for Longwood, Smith ranks seventh in Division I and leads the Big South averaging 6.1 assists per game.
• Kyla McMakin has made an immediate impact for the Lancers offense and is the No. 2 scorer in the Big South conference averaging 15.9 points per game.
• All-Big South Dayna Rouse leads the conference in field goal percentage (.533) and ranks in the top 10 in the conference in scoring (15.2 per game), rebounding (6.5 per game), free throw percentage (.789), and blocks (1.6 per game).
• Longwood's offense is the only Big South member to average 70+ points per game in conference play, scoring 72.0 points per game.
• Longwood blocked 21 shots in their previous three games, raising the teams average to 5.6 blocks per game, ranking 12th in Division I
• Akila Smith is a force on the defensive end of the court. Smith leads the Big South in blocked shots (34) and blocked shots per game (2.43) while ranking in the top 5 in steals per game. (2.1),
• Distributing and sharing the basketball is key in Longwood's offense. In the Lancers five conference games, Longwood ranks first in the Big South, averaging 15.2 assists per game.
• The Lancers rank second in the Big South from the charity stripe with 191 made on the season and converting on 74 percent of attempts.
• During the conference play, Dayna Rouse is the second-leading scorer in the Big South, averaging 16.8 points per game in the five-game stretch. Kyla McMakin ranks fifth in the conference at 14.8 points per game.
Series History
• Longwood looks to end a streak of 10 consecutive losses against the Highlanders.
• The last victory against Radford was in Willett Hall on February 22, 2014, when the Lancers defeated the Highlanders 76-70.
• The previous appearance between Longwood and Radford on Feb. 16 saw Dayna Rouse shoot 7-of-11 from the floor with a team-high 21 points.
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