Game 26 • Longwood (14-11, 2-8 Big South) vs. Winthrop (15-10, 6-4 Big South)
Date & Time	Saturday, February 10, 2024 (3 p.m.)
Location	Farmville, Va. (Joan Perry Brock Center)
Game Notes	Longwood | Winthrop | Big South
Statistics	Longwood | Winthrop | Big South
Live Stats	Live Stats
Live Video	ESPN+
Live Radio	WVHL
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

OPENING TIP
•    Longwood wraps up back-to-back home games by hosting Winthrop on Saturday afternoon at the Joan Perry Brock Center.
•    The game is sponsored by Walk2Campus.
•    Following the game, there are only five games left in the regular season.
•    Longwood is 10-3 at the Joan Perry Brock Center this season.
•    The 10 home wins mark the fourth time the team has won double digit home games in six seasons under head coach Griff Aldrich.
•    The first time Longwood and Winthrop met this season, the game went down to the wire with Winthrop narrowly winning the contest in overtime.
•    The Lancers have won the battle on the boards 22 times in 24 games this season and are 13-9 when doing so.
•    Longwood leads the Big South in rebounding margin and offensive rebounds per game.
 
LAST TIME OUT
•    Longwood battled but came up just short on Wednesday night against USC Upstate in a 69-64 loss.
•    Trae Broadnax led the visitors with a game high 20 points.
•    For Longwood, eight players scored with three in double figures: Walyn Napper (17 points), Michael Christmas (10) and Johnathan Massie (10).
•    Massie added a team-best eight rebounds.
•    Both sides led by as much as nine, but the final 11 minutes were tight with seven lead changes and four ties.
•    Ultimately, a 6-0 run by USC Upstate flipped a one-point Longwood lead to a five-point USC Upstate advantage that the Spartans would never relinquish.
•    Longwood cut it to three inside the final minute, but there was a lid on the basket on Longwood's game-tying attempts.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
•    Longwood will play its 14th home game of the season on Wednesday night.
•    The Lancers are 10-3 at home this season and 64-23 in Farmville under head coach Griff Aldrich.
•    Prior to Aldrich, Longwood hadn't won 10 home games in a season since 2010-11.
•    He has led the team to 10 home wins four times in six seasons. The team had won 10 home games in a season three times prior to Aldrich since 2003-04.
•    The Lancers have outshot their opponent from the free throw line 19 times this season and are 12-7 in such contests.
•    Longwood has also won the turnover battle 13 times this season and has gone 10-3 when winning the turnover battle.
•    The Lancer defense leads the Big South with 13.8 turnovers forced per game.
•    Longwood has also won the battle on the boards 22 times in 24 games and has gone 13-9 when doing so.
•    Longwood has outrebounded opponents by 10.4 boards per game, the top mark in the Big South and fifth-best margin in the nation.
•    The Lancers do so by winning on the offensive glass. Longwood has grabbed at least 20 offensive rebounds in a game five times.
•    The team's 14.4 offensive boards per game is the ninth-best mark in the nation and top number in the Big South.
•    Longwood averages 15.2 second chance points per game.
•    The team has scored at least 20 seconds chance points in a game seven times this year.
•    Longwood averages 39.5 points in the paint per game this season.
•    Longwood has only been outscored in the paint  in a game three time this season.

BY THE NUMBERS:
 "I told the guys, I was extremely proud. We've been saying for a while that we need to be more competitive, that we need to fight. I thought, for the most part, we had great competitive spirit tonight. I thought this team out here was aggressive. They were the aggressor. I thought they did a really good job. I was extremely proud of how hard they played. On the flip side, it's not enough just to play hard. You also have to execute...The hope is now, and the expectation is, now that we've got the competitive spirit back, now we've got to execute."
—Longwood Head Coach Griff Aldrich after USC Upstate
 
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