Longwood University Athletics

Game 26: Longwood (9-16, 4-8 Big South) vs. Campbell (12-12, 3-9 Big South)
Date	Monday, February 10, 2020
Time	7 p.m.
Location	Farmville, Va. (Willett Hall)
Game Notes	Longwood (PDF) | Campbell (PDF) | Big South
Statistics	Longwood (HTML) | Campbell (PDF) | Big South (HTML)
Live Stats	Longwood Live Stats
Radio	WVHL 92.9 FM Kickin' Country
Video/TV	ESPN+
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

The Opening Tip
•    In their third game of the past five days, Longwood hosts Campbell Monday night at 7 p.m. in Willett Hall. The game will be the finale of a three-game homestand for the Lancers, who defeated Charleston Southern 71-63 at home Thursday and fell 70-68 to unbeaten Winthrop Saturday.
•    The Lancers enter Monday's game winners of three of their past five outings with their lone losses during that span to Big South preseason No. 1 Radford and Big South frontrunner Winthrop.
•    The Lancers are 2-1 in February, tied for their best three-game start to the month since joining the Big South in 2012-13 and matching the 2015-16 team's 2-1 record.
•    With six Big South games remaining, Longwood is in a logjam in the bottom half of the conference standings. Currently in 10th place, only one game separates Longwood from eighth-place UNC Asheville and 1.5 games from sixth-place Gardner-Webb.

Last Time Out
•    Duncan Burns Jr. and Charles Falden both scored 17 points to help unbeaten Winthrop survive an upset bid 70-68 against red-hot Longwood Saturday afternoon in Willett Hall.
•    Longwood took the Big South frontrunner Eagles to the wire, overcoming a 13-point deficit to stake a 68-67 lead on freshman Heru Bligen's steal and fastbreak layup with 2:02 to play. However, Falden responded by hitting two free throws at 1:46, and the Eagles' top-tier Big South defense forced stops on Longwood's final five possessions to lock up the win and remain the league's only undefeated team in conference play this season.
•    Burns' and Falden's collective effort was enough to outpace a 24-point outburst from Longwood point guard Juan Munoz, who sparked a second-half comeback by scoring the Lancers' first 12 points out of the break. JaShaun Smith, honored before the game for scoring his 1,000th career point, also added 15 points 

By The Numbers
•    Shabooty Phillips has scored in double figures in all three games he has faced Campbell and averages 15.3 points per game in the series, the best of any active Lancer. He is shooting .516 (16-of-31) from the field, .529 (9-of-17) from three-point range and a perfect 1.000 (5-of-5) from the free throw line in those contests.
•    Juan Munoz has been Longwood's top three-pointer shooter in Willett Hall this season, amassing a team-high 21 treys in those 11 home games while shooting a team-best .412 (21-of-51).
•    Longwood ranks second in the Big South with 227 made three-pointers, trailing only first-place Winthrop's 229. 
•    Munoz has hit a three-pointer in 12 consecutive games and multiple treys in 10 of those contests. He is shooting .446 (33-of-74) from long range during that stretch.
•    Munoz snapped a streak of 16 consecutive games with a steal Saturday against Winthrop. His 40 steals this season are the most by a Lancer since Aldrich took over the program in 2018-19. 
•    Longwood's defense has amassed a conference-best 100 steals in Big South play.
•    JaShaun Smith has scored in double figures in five of his past six games after doing so just seven time in his 19 games prior. Smith is averaging 10.3 field goal attempts per game over his past six games compared to 7.2 in 19 games prior.
•    Smith has played in 120 consecutive games and made 61 consecutive starts. He is one of only 23 players in program history to score 1,000 career points.
•    Over the past five games, Longwood has assisted on 58.8 percent of its made field goals, compared to just 40.1 percent in its 10 games prior.
•    Longwood is 5-2 when holding opponents under 40.0 percent shooting from the field and 9-4 when shooting 40.0 percent or better from the field.

Quotable
"We want Longwood basketball to be about playing the right way, playing as hard as we can, and playing together. We want guys getting back on their bus when they go home to say, 'Wow, didn't know those guys were going to play like that.' My bet is that's what Winthrop's saying tonight."
— Longwood head coach Griff Aldrich following Longwood's near-upset of Winthrop Saturday

Series History
•    Longwood and Campbell meet for the second time this season and the 21st time in series history in a series that is deadlocked at 10-10 since it began on Feb. 22, 2007.
•    Campbell has won four straight games and five of the past six. That tear came in response to a five-game streak by the Lancers that ran from Feb. 15, 2014 to Dec. 29, 2016. 
•    Longwood's last win in the series was a 76-62 triumph on Jan. 15, 2018, in Farmville, Va.
•    Point guards Juan Munoz (10.0 ppg.) and Shabooty Phillips (15.3 ppg.) are both averaging double digits in their three career games against Campbell.

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