Game 31 • Longwood (17-13, 5-10 Big South) vs. High Point (24-6, 13-2 Big South)
Date & Time	Saturday, March 2 | 4:30 p.m.
Location	Farmville, Va. (Joan Perry Brock Center)
Game Notes	Longwood | Big South
Statistics	Longwood | High Point | Big South
Live Stats	Live Stats
Live Video	ESPN+
Live Radio	WVHL
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

OPENING TIP
•    Longwood closes the regular season by welcoming High Point to the Joan Perry Brock Center.
•    The Lancers face a High Point team that has clinched the outright Big South regular season title.
•    Over the past four years, four different teams have won the regular season Big South crown, with Longwood winning the title in 2021-22.
•    The Lancers are honoring their seniors prior to the game. Over the past four season, Longwood has won 75 games, the most in a four-year stretch in more than 40 years.
•    Longwood is 12-3 at home this season and 66-23 under head coach Griff Aldrich in Farmville in six seasons.
•    The Lancers have scored at least 80 points in four of their past five games.
•    Longwood has scored at least 40 points in the paint 14 times this season.
 
LAST TIME OUT
•    It was a tale of two halves that ended in a heartbreaking 72-69 loss for the Lancers at Gardner-Webb on Thursday.
•    GWU jumped all over Longwood to the tune of 12 first half threes and a 50-28 lead at halftime, with Lucas Stieber scoring a season-best 20 points while hitting five threes.
•    The Lancers flipped the script in the second half and roared back to tie the game at 69, holding Gardner-Webb without a field goal for the final 9:26.
•    Four Lancers reached double digits, with Walyn Napper scoring 14 points while Emanuel Richards added 13 along with stout second-half defense at the point of attack. Elijah Tucker added 11 points and nine boards, and DA Houston had 10.
•    However, DQ Nicholas drew a foul shooting a three with 1.2 seconds left, and he hit all three free throws to break the tie.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
•    Longwood is playing its 16th home game of the season.
•    The Lancers, who are 12-3 at home this year, have won 40 home games in three season.
•    Longwood has notched at least 10 home wins four times in six seasons for the first time since a five-year stretch from 1985-90.
•    The team's 12 home wins are tied for second most in the Big South.
•    The Lancers are also guaranteed to have a winning record for a third straight season for the first time in three decades. The last time the Lancers achieved it was from 1992-95, and the team has achieved the streak three times in program history. The longest streak was six straight seasons from 1978-1984.
•    Four players scored in double figures for Longwood at Gardner-Webb, the 13th time the team has met that mark this season.
•    When at least nine players score, Longwood is 10-3 this season.
•    This season, Longwood has outscored its opponents by 10.7 points per game in the paint. The Lancers average 38.7 points per game in the paint.
•    The Lancers are the 11-best offensive rebounding team in the nation, averaging 13.9 offensive boards per game.
•    Longwood is fifth in the nation in rebounding margin, out rebounding opponents by 9.5 boards per game.
•    The Lancers lead the Big South in turnovers forced per game at 13.8. The team is 12-5 when winning the turnover battle.
•    Longwood held Gardner-Webb to 22 points after halftime, the 24th time this season the team has held its opponent to fewer than 32 points in a half.
 
QUOTABLE:
"The biggest thing for Longwood basketball is fighting for our culture, fighting for our team. That second half, that's who we want to be. The first half is rough to watch, probably for the fans too. The reality is, we've been fighting to be that second half team. We've got one more game left, and we've got the tournament."
—Longwood Head Coach Griff Aldrich after the comeback effort at Gardner-Webb came up just short.

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