Game 13 • Longwood (11-1) vs. VMI (2-9)
Date & Time	Sunday, Dec. 17, 2023 (2 p.m.)
Location	Farmville, Va. (Joan Perry Brock Center)
Game Notes	Longwood | VMI | Big South
Statistics	Longwood | VMI | Big South
Live Stats	Live Stats
Live Video	ESPN+
Live Radio	WVHL
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

OPENING TIP
•    Longwood returns home to host VMI on Sunday afternoon. Fans can bring three canned food items to donate to FACES Food Pantry in exchange for a free ticket.
•    The Lancers have won 11 straight, which, coming into the weekend, was the longest winning streak in the nation. Houston has won 10 straight games.
•    Longwood is unbeaten at home this season, their first in the Joan Perry Brock Center. They are 7-0 in their new home, and they have gone 61-20 in Farmville under head coach Griff Aldrich.
•    Walyn Napper and Szymon Zapala posted 24 points apiece, the second time this season Longwood has had two players score at least 20 points in the same game.
•    The Lancers have the most wins among any team in the state of Virginia.
•    Coming into the weekend, Longwood is No. 76 in the NCAA Net Rankings and No. 144 in Kenpom's analytics ratings.
 
LAST TIME OUT
•    Longwood clamped down against Milwaukee to win the team's 11th straight game.
•    The Lancers held Milwaukee to 3-18 shooting from three after the Panthers hit 5-8 in the first 10 minutes.
•    Walyn Napper was dynamic on the ball and tied for the team lead with 24 points for Longwood, his first time with at least 20 points as a Lancers.
•    Szymon Zapala was unstoppable on the interior and posted a career high 24 points.
•    The two were aggressive attacking the paint, and helped Longwood notch 46 points in the paint.
•    Napper and Zapala excelled in the pick-and-roll, as Napper had nine assists, a season high.
•    Johnathan Massie also stuffed the stat sheet with 12 points, five rebounds, two assists, a career best five steals, and two blocks.
•    Longwood led by six at halftime and extended it to double digits in the second half.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
•    Longwood's 11 game winning streak is the longest in the nation, heading into the weekend.
•    The Lancers are one of two teams in the country with a double-digit winning streak. Houston is the other and has won 10 straight and plays on Saturday night.
•    In addition, Longwood is 7-0 at the Joan Perry Brock Center. The team is 61-20 in Farmville under Head Coach Griff Aldrich.
•    The Lancers have only surrendered 61.2 points per game, good for 11th-best in the nation coming into the weekend.
•    That defense has helped Longwood post a +19.7 scoring margin, also the 11th best margin in the country.  
•    The team's .391 field goal percentage defense leads the Big South and ranks 31st in the nation heading into the weekend.
•    After halftime over the past six games, Longwood has held its opponent to below .400 percent shooting each time.
•    Walyn Napper and Johnathan Massie have helped Longwood rank second in the Big South and 92nd in the nation with 7.9 steals per game.
•    Napper is 49th nationally with 21 steals (1.75 per game, third in the Big South), and Massie is 116th with 18 steals (2.5 per game).
•    Longwood also hammers the glass and is outrebounding its opponents by 14.4 boards per game, 3rd in the nation, behind only Arizona and Cal-State Northridge.
•    The Lancers are one of the top offensive rebounding teams in the Big South at 14.5 offensive boards per game, good for 16th nationally and 1st in the Big South.
•    Michael Christmas ranks 29th in the nation with 95 rebounds, and his 7.9 rebounds per game ranks fourth in the Big South.
•    Longwood has scored 494 points in the paint, an average of 41.2 points per game.
•    The Lancer bench ranks 30th in the nation and chips in 30.7 points per game.
 
QUOTABLE
"I'm really proud of the team today to get a win on the road like this, More than anything, this was a complete team win. Obviously, Walyn and Szymon were fantastic, but you've got Michael Christmas with eight rebounds and Johnathan Massie with five [rebounds] and five steals. So many things DA does that don't show up in the stat sheet were really good. He hit two really big threes that gave us some breathing room both times. It was a complete team win."
—Longwood Head Coach Griff Aldrich after a win at Milwaukee
 
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