The Opening Tip
•   After squeezing in three games in a five-day span, from Jan. 16-20, Longwood will take on High Point on five days rest this Saturday in High Point, N.C.
•   The Lancers swept the regular-season matchups against the Panthers in 2018-19, which was the debut season at both institutions for head coaches
Griff Aldrich and Tubby Smith. Those two games were decided by a combined seven points with Longwood winning the opener 55-51 in Farmville and the rematch 62-59 in High Point.
•   Longwood has won three straight against the Panthers dating back to the first-round upset in the 2018 Big South Championship tournament.
•   The Lancers have hit at least 10 three-pointers in three of their past five games after doing so just four times in 10 games prior.
Shabooty Phillips is shooting .500 (12-of-24) from long range and averaging 2.4 made treys per game during that span.Â
•   Senior forward
JaShaun Smith is just 52 points shy of reaching 1,000 points for his career.
Last Time Out
•   UNC Asheville guard DeVon Baker delivered 19 points and rattled off four consecutive three-pointers late in the second half to lift the Bulldogs over a reenergized Longwood team 71-66 Monday evening at Willett Hall.
•   Baker scored 14 points after halftime to fend off a Lancer squad that had the game within one possession with under five minutes to play. He scored 12 straight points on his own in the game's final nine minutes, including a three-pointer with 4:00 to play that pushed Asheville's lead to five points.
•   Longwood battled back to trim the deficit to 69-66 on
Shabooty Phillips' three-pointer with one second to play, but Lavar Batts got loose for a buzzer-beating fastbreak dunk on the final possession to spoil Longwood's comeback effort.
•   Phillips led Longwood with 16 points,
JaShaun Smith added 13 and
DeShaun Wade poured in 12. Longwood hit 10 three-pointers, including three from Phillips.
By The Numbers
•   Longwood has allowed only two opponents to reach 80 points in regulation, tied for the fewest such games in the Big South this season alongside Gardner-Webb, Radford and UNC Asheville.
•   Longwood has allowed only seven 20-point scorers in 20 games this season. Longwood went the first 11 games without allowing a 20-point scorer.
•   The Lancers rank third in the Big South in opponent scoring average at 70.5 points per game.
•   Longwood's defense has amassed 58 steals in Big South play, the second most behind only UNC Asheville's 59. Longwood has forced its first seven Big South foes into 102 turnovers, which ranks fourth in the conference.
•   Longwood is 4-2 when holding opponents under 40.0 percent shooting from the field.Â
•   Longwood is 6-3 when shooting 40.0 percent or better from the field.
•   Longwood's bench averages 29.2 points per game, which ranks 18th nationally and second in the Big South. Only Winthrop's bench (35.5 ppg.) has been more productive in conference play.
•   Longwood has had a double-digit scorer off the bench in 15 of 19 games this season.
•   Point guard
Juan Munoz has at least one steal in 11 straight games and ranks fourth in the conference with 1.8 steals per game. He has multiple steals in five of his past seven games.
•   Longwood is the second-best free throw shooting team in Big South play, shooting .763 (122-of-160) from the charity stripe.Â
•   Freshman
Leslie Nkereuwem has more offensive rebounds (41) than defensive rebounds (27), joining High Point's Caden Sanchez as the only Big South players with more offensive boards than defensive (minimum 50 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.
Quotable
"That has to be the foundation of our program, that you're playing with passion, playing with energy and playing for one another. I thought we had a lot of that tonight. I don't know if you call it juice or whatever, but I thought we had that."
— Longwood head coach
Griff Aldrich following Monday's narrow 71-66 loss to UNC Asheville
Series History
•   Longwood and High Point meet for the 35th time in series history Saturday in High Point, N.C., in the latest edition of a series High Point leads 23-11.
•   Longwood has won three straight in the series, the Lancers' longest winning streak over the Panthers since joining the Big South in 2012-13.
•   High Point holds an 11-4 advantage in the series since Longwood joined the Big South. Two of those games came in the Big South Championship tournament with the teams splitting both.
•   Longwood has won two straight games on High Point's home floor, 68-55 in the first round of the 2018 Big South Championship and 62-59 in their last trip on Feb. 13, 2019.
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