Quick Turnaround at Hampton Awaits Longwood
Women's Basketball
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The Opening Tip
• Longwood prepares for their first Commonwealth of Virginia road trip in Big South Conference play against the Pirates of Hampton University.
• The Lancers enter the matchup with momentum after defeating UNC Asheville at Willett Hall. The Pirates will be looking to rebound after falling at home against High Point in their previous conference game.
• Senior Dayna Rouse is 17 points shy of becoming the 22nd Lancer in program history to record 1,000 career points. Rouse would only be the fourth Lancers to record 1,000 career points since reclassifying Division I in 2004.
• Freshman Kyla McMakin earned her fifth Big South Freshman of the Week honor, becoming the tenth person in Big South history to receive the recognition five or more times.
Last Time Out
• A 25 point performance by from Big South Freshman of the Year frontrunner Kyla McMakin led the Lancers over annual conference frontrunner UNC Asheville 73-56 Saturday afternoon in Willett Hall.
• Senior Dayna Rouse recorded her Big South-leading sixth double-double of the season with 15 points and 10 rebounds in the victory over the Bulldogs.
• Longwood shot .439 (29-of-66) from the floor, .467 (7- of-15) from three-point range and .800 (8-of-10) from the free-throw line.
• Longwood was equally capable on the defensive end of the floor, holding UNC Asheville to .322 (19-of-59) shooting from the field and .300 (6-of-20) from threepoint range. Led by a three-steal, four-block performance from Longwood sophomore Akila Smith, the Bulldogs made just six field goals after halftime and committed 20 turnovers.
By the Numbers
• Longwood remains the best scoring team in the Big South, averaging 67.2 points per game over eighteen contests. In conference play, the Lancers offense is even better, scoring an average of 69.6 points per game.
• Pacing the offense for the Lancers is the duo of freshman Kyla McMakin and senior Dayna Rouse. McMakin ranks second in the league in scoring, averaging 17.3 points per game, while Rouse is third in the league at 15.5 points per game.
• Dayna Rouse finds herself in the top-10 in the Big South in field goal percentage (.531) scoring (15.5), rebounding (7.3), blocks (2.0), steals (1.6), and minutes (32.7) per game. • Transfer Tra'Dayja Smith not only leads the Lancers and the Big South but ranks fifth in Division I averaging 6.4 assists per game.
• Akila Smith and Dayna Rouse lead Longwood's defense. Smith and Rouse are the No. 1 and No. 2 shot blockers in the Big South, with Smith averaging 2.2 blocks per game.
• The Lancers' as a team rank seventh in Division I in blocked shots averaging 5.8 blocks per game. Longwood has recorded 104 blocks on the season and is the sixth Longwood team to record 100+ blocks dating back to the 2008-2009 season.
• Longwood is the only program in the Big South to have two women (Kyla McMakin 17.3 ppg, Dayna Rouse 15.5 ppg) in the top-five in scoring and one of two teams to have three woman averaging double-figures (Anne-Hamilton LeRoy (10.9 ppg).
• The Lancers five Big South victories are three conference victories shy of tying the program record of eight Big South victories in one season, set by the 2012-2013 Longwood team.
Series History
• Longwood has yet to beat the Pirates under second-year head coach Rebecca Tillett.
• Hampton defeated the Lancers in the last contest in series history in Farmville by a score of 86-70, evening the series at seven games apiece.
• Longwood shot 44 percent from the floor, and the offense was led by Dayna Rouse, who fell two rebounds shy of a double-double, with 20 points and eight rebounds.
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