Game 23 • Longwood (14-8, 2-5 Big South) at High Point (18-4, 7-0 Big South)
Date & Time	Thursday, Friday 1, 2024 (7 p.m.)
Location	High Point, N.C. (Qubein Center)
Game Notes	Longwood | Big South
Statistics	Longwood | High Point | Big South
Live Stats	Live Stats
Live Video	ESPNU
Live Radio	WVHL
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

OPENING TIP
•    Longwood hits the road for back-to-back games on a tight turnaround with trips to High Point on Thursday and Charleston Southern on Saturday.
•    The matchup with High Point wraps up the first half of Big South play.
•    The Lancers will make their second appearance on ESPNU on Thursday night.
•    Longwood is coming off a bye weekend, and the Lancers had the second latest bye in the league. Winthrop is the lone remaining team with a bye in the first round robin.
•    The Lancers have snared at least 20 offensive rebounds in a game four times this season, and the team leads the Big South in offensive rebounding.
•    Seven players have led, or tied for the team lead, in scoring this year for Longwood.
•    Johnathan Massie and Walyn Napper have each led the team in scoring seven times, and Szymon Zapala has done so six times.
 
LAST TIME OUT
•    Longwood was on the wrong end of a Big South record on Wednesday, January 24 against Gardner-Webb.
•    The Runnin' Bulldogs drained 12-13 triples en route to a 76-64 win, setting the Big South record for best three point percentage in a game (and finishing one miss shy of tying the NCAA record of 12-12).
•    Gardner-Webb drained its first 11 threes to jump out to a double digit lead.
•    Longwood bullied its way back into the game with repeated forays to the rim that led to free throws (18-22 in the second half).
•    Michael Christmas hit a jumper that cut the lead to 71-62 with 3:22 to go, but Gardner-Webb hit a three to effectively ice the game 90 seconds later.
•    Johnathan Massie led Longwood with 13 points, and Walyn Napper added 10.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
•    The Thursday night game is Longwood's 11th road contest of the season.
•    The Lancers are 4-6 on the road on the season.
•    Four players average double digits in scoring for Longwood this season: Walyn Napper (13.7 ppg),  Johnathan Massie (11.2), Michael Christmas (11) and Szymon Zapala (11).
•    Ten different players have scored in double figures in at least one game this season for Longwood.
•    Seven different guys have led the team, or tied for the team lead, in scoring in a game.
•    As a team, Longwood has owned the paint, outscoring their opponents by 13 points per game in the painted area.
•    The Lancers have outscored their opponents in the paint in all but four games this season. Three times, the team has tied their opponent. Only once has the opponent scored more than Longwood in the paint.
•    Longwood has controlled the glass, posting an offensive rebounding rate of 37.8 percent, the eighth best mark in the country.
•    The Lancers average 14.3 offensive boards per game and have snared at least 20 four times.
•    Seven players are averaging at least one offensive rebound per game, with three averaging better than two offensive boards per contest.
•    Longwood has won the rebounding battle 20 times and is 13-7 when winning the rebounding battle.
•    The team has out rebounded its opponent by 10 or more 11 times this season.
•    Four players have led Longwood in rebounding this season.
•    The Lancers average 13 second-chance points per game on the season.
•    Longwood's defense gives up 64.4 points per game, the top mark in the Big South.
•    Longwood's defenses forces an average of 14.1 turnovers per game, the top mark in the Big South.
•    The Lancer bench ranks 60th in the nation, and third in the Big South, in points per game at 25.7.
 
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