Longwood University Athletics

Games 21&22: Longwood (6-14, 5-9 Big South) vs. Gardner-Webb (8-12, 7-8 Big South)
Date & Time	Game 1: Thursday, Feb. 11 (4 p.m.) • Game 2: Friday, Feb. 12 (4 p.m.)
Location	Farmville, Va. (Willett Hall)
Game Notes	Longwood (PDF) | Gardner-Webb | Big South
Statistics	Longwood (HTML) | Gardner-Webb (PDF) | Big South (HTML)
Live Stats	Games 1&2: Longwood Live Stats
Radio	WVHL 92.9 FM Kickin' Country
Video/TV	Game 1: ESPN+  • Game 2: ESPN+
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

The Opening Tip
•    Playing for the first time in more than a week, Longwood returns to the court this Thursday and Friday to host Big South rival Gardner-Webb in Willett Hall.
•    The Lancers' previously scheduled series at Charleston Southern on Feb. 4-5 was postponed out of an abundance of caution due to a positive COVID-19 test by one member of the Lancers' 
Tier 1 personnel. 
•    Longwood has won three straight home games, including a series sweep over High Point on Jan. 19-20 and a nine-point win over Campbell on Jan. 10. Longwood is 5-4 in Willett Hall this season and 23-15 under third-year head coach Griff Aldrich.
•    Longwood junior Christian Wilson and Gardner-Webb sophomore Kareem Reid are both from Queens, N.Y., and played their high school ball just 4.5 miles apart from one another.

Last Time Out
•    Less than 24 hours after Longwood pulled out a 49-45 victory in a defensive slugfest over Presbyterian in game one, the Blue Hose returned the favor and grinded out a 66-54 win in game two.
•    The loss snapped Longwood's three-game winning streak and was only the Lancers' third loss since Jan. 10. 
•    Presbyterian got a game-high 20 points from Big South freshman scoring leader Rayshon Harrison, who sparked a 41-point second half by the Blue Hose.
•    Joining Harrison in double figures was Brandon Younger, whose 14 points helped offset an 11-point night from Longwood guard Juan Munoz and a physical nine-point performance from forward Christian Wilson. DeShaun Wade and Leslie Nkereuwem also chipped in eight points apiece for the Lancers.

By The Numbers
•    The Lancer bench is outscoring opponents by an average of 8.5 points per game this season. Longwood's reserves are averaging 24.9 points per game, compared to 16.4 by the opposition.
•    Freshman point guard Justin Hill is averaging a team-high 10.4 points per game off the bench this season, the highest clip on the team among players who have played at least 10 games off the bench. He has scored in double figures in five of his 10 games in reserve, including a career-high 20 points in a win over High Point on Jan. 20.
•    Longwood has emerged as one of the top defensive teams in the Big South, holding conference opponents to a league-low 63.9 points per game in conference play. 
•    The Lancers have surrendered 70 or fewer points in five straight games and in 11 of 14 Big South games overall. 
•    Longwood's past four opponents are averaging just 54.8 points per game. Only Presbyterian, in a 66-54 win on Jan. 30, has scored more than 54 points during that span.
•    Longwood is one of only 45 teams in the nation and three in the Big South to have played at least 20 games this season. Longwood ranked tied for second nationally in games played until the postponement of the Feb. 4-5 series against Charleston Southern last week. 
•    Only two teams have shot better than 40.0 percent from beyond the arc against Longwood this season, while 10 — including nine in Big South play — have shot under 30.0 percent.
•    Redshirt junior point guard Juan Munoz has hit 133 career three-pointers, which ranks ninth on Longwood's all-time list and sixth in the Division I era (since 2004-05). He is also a career .378 (133-of-352) shooter from long range, which is the ninth-best clip in school history and the third best in the Division I era.

Quotable
"When I think about the development of this program and the development of this team, this is a game we lose in December, maybe even a couple weeks ago in January. But to the guys' credit, they're growing and understanding 'Ok, let's get back to execution, making the simple play.' To their credit, it paid off."
 — Longwood head coach Griff Aldrich following Longwood's road win at Presbyterian on Jan. 29

Series History
•    Longwood and Gardner-Webb meet for the 23rd and 24th times in series history this Thursday and Friday in Willett Hall. 
•    Gardner-Webb leads the all-time series 15-7 and is 12-2 against Longwood since the Lancers joined the Big South in 2012-13. 
•    Longwood won the most recent meeting 84-81 in an overtime thriller last season in Boiling Springs, N.C. That win saw the Lancers pull out a back-and-forth game in overtime thanks to 20 points from JaShaun Smith, 17 from Juan Munoz, and an overtime flurry from DeShaun Wade, who hit a go-ahead three-pointer with 1:36 to play in the extra period.

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