Longwood University Athletics

Game 20: Longwood (6-12, 1-4 Big South) vs. UNC Asheville (7-8, 1-3 Big South)
Date	Monday, January 20, 2020
Time	7 p.m.
Location	Farmville, Va. (Willett Hall)
Game Notes	Longwood (PDF) | UNC Asheville (PDF) | Big South
Statistics	Longwood (HTML) | UNC Asheville (PDF) | Big South (HTML)
Live Stats	Longwood Live Stats
Radio	WVHL 92.9 FM Kickin' Country
Video/TV	ESPN+
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The Opening Tip
•    Longwood bookends a stretch of three games in five days Monday by hosting UNC Asheville in Willett Hall at 7 p.m. The game is Longwood's third since Thursday following bouts against conference rivals Presbyterian and Campbell.
•    The game features a matchup of two second-year Big South coaches in Longwood's Griff Aldrich and UNC Asheville's Mike Morrell. In the first meeting between those two during their inaugural seasons in 2018-19, Aldrich led Longwood to a 67-62 win on Jan. 10 in Willett Hall.
•    Longwood senior Shabooty Phillips and UNC Asheville redshirt junior Jeremy Peck played high school basketball six miles apart in Houston, Texas. Phillips starred at Texas powerhouse Jack Yates High School, while Beck was an all-state selection at St. Thomas High School.
•    Longwood is 4-3 in Willett Hall this season and 14-7 at home in two seasons under Aldrich. Longwood opened 2019-20 4-0 at home.

Last Time Out
•    In a matchup between the league's No. 2 and No. 3 defensive teams, Campbell held sharpshooting Longwood in check and broke through the Lancers' own staunch defenses late to outlast the Lancers 68-58 Saturday afternoon at Gore Arena. 
•    Campbell held Longwood to just six three-pointers and a season-low 18 three-point attempts.
•    Cory Gensler led the way for Campbell, scoring 15 points on 6-of-9 shooting, while Ja'Cor Nelson added 11 points and a game-high eight assists.
•    With just 126 combined points, it was the second-lowest scoring game of the Big South schedule to date 
•    Longwood guard Shabooty Phillips was the lone Lancer to find consistent success from beyond the arc, hitting 3-of-4 treys with two of those coming in the final nine minutes. 
•    Phillips' 13 points led the team, while fellow point guard Juan Munoz joined him in double figures with 11 points. 

By The Numbers
•    Longwood is 2-2 this season when playing on just two days rest. 
•    The Lancers have forced the third-most turnovers (281) in the Big South and swiped the third-most steals per game (7.0). 
•    Longwood is 4-2 when holding opponents under 40.0 percent shooting from the field. 
•    Longwood is 6-2 when shooting 40.0 percent or better from the field.
•    Point guard Juan Munoz is on the most productive scoring tear of his career with five consecutive double-digit efforts. He is Longwood's leading scorer in Big South play with 13.2 points per game and has also swiped a team-high 14 steals in those six contests.
•    Munoz has at least one steal in 10 straight games and ranks fifth in the conference with 30 steals.
•    Munoz's streak of five consecutive double-digit scoring games is the longest by a Lancer this season.
•    JaShaun Smith is shooting .471 (8-of-17) from three-point range at home this season. He has hit a three-pointer in 12 consecutive home games dating back to the 2018-19 season.
•    Smith's career .390 three-point shooting percentage is the best by any player in Longwood's Division I era.
•    Longwood is the second-best free throw shooting team in the Big South, shooting .718 (272-of-379) from the charity stripe. 
•    Over his past six games, freshman Heru Bligen  is averaging 7.2 points and 18.7 minutes per game compared to 1.7 points and 7.3 minutes in his first seven.
•    Freshman Leslie Nkereuwem has more offensive rebounds (39) than defensive rebounds (27), joining High Point's Caden Sanchez as the only Big South players with more offensive boards than defensive (minimum 40 rebounds).
•    The Lancers compiled a team GPA of 3.13 during the fall 2019 semester, which ranks as the program's highest of the Division I era.
•    Longwood has had a double-digit scorer off the bench in 14 of 18 games this season. 

Quotable
"Those are good shooters. I believe in them, and I don't change my view in the way we play. The analytics say that's a great shot – it's a wide open three, and you've got your best shooters shooting them. You have to live with that."
— Longwood head coach Griff Aldrich on Longwood's three-point shooting Saturday at Campbell

Series History
•    Longwood and UNC Asheville meet for the 15th time in series history Monday on Longwood's home court in Willett Hall. 
•    The Bulldogs own a 12-2 record in the series, which dates back to Jan. 6, 1986, though Longwood claimed the last meeting 67-62 in Farmville.
•    UNC Asheville had rattled off nine consecutive wins before the Lancers snapped that streak in the lone meeting between the teams in 2018-19.
•    The Bulldogs are 10-2 against the Lancers in the Big South era. Longwood's other victory in the series came in the first round of the 2013 Big South Championship.

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