Game 5: Longwood (1-3) vs. Dartmouth (0-3)
Date	November 28, 2016
Time	7 p.m.
Location	Farmville, Va. (Willett Hall)
Game Notes	Longwood (PDF) | Dartmouth
Season Statistics	Longwood (PDF) | Dartmouth (HTML)
Live Stats	Longwood Live Stats
Radio	WVHL 92.9 FM Kickin' Country
Video	Big South Network
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

The Opening Tip
•    The Lancers return to Willett Hall Monday to take on Dartmouth for the first of back-to-back home games on their home floor. The game marks the fourth consecutive season in which Longwood and Dartmouth have faced each other.
•    Monday's game will be Longwood's last on an unnamed home floor in Willett Hall. The playing surface in Willett Hall will be named "Jerome Kersey Court" prior to the Dec. 3 game against James Madison in honor of the program's most prominent basketball alumnus, who starred at Longwood from 1980-84 and played 17 seasons in the NBA. Kersey passed away in February, 2015.
•    Senior Darrion Allen has scored in double figures in every game this season and ranks among the Big South's top five in scoring (4th, 16.8 ppg.), three-point percentage (.452), made three-pointers per game (3.5) and blocks (t-3rd, 1.3 bpg.).

Last Time Out
•    A double-double from freshman Keith Braxton and four double-figure scorers propelled Saint Francis to an 87-72 win over Longwood Wednesday.
•    Braxton scored 17 points and grabbed 12 rebounds to lead a Red Flash team that generated 48 points in the paint. He hit 8-of-11 shots from the field and added five assists during a night in which Saint Francis shot .600 (36-of-60) from the floor and topped the 40-point mark in both halves.
•    Darrion Allen led Longwood with 21 points and hit 5-of-9 three-pointers, but could do little more to overcome Saint Francis' game-changing 20-2 run in the closing minutes of the first half. Allen scored 19 points and hit all five treys in the second half.
•    Khris Lane added 17 points and nine rebounds for Longwood, while freshman JaShaun Smith neared a double-double in his first career start with 14 points, seven rebounds and three assists.
 
By The Numbers
•    Longwood's new-look pressure defense has the Lancers ranked among the Big South's top five in opponent turnovers (3rd, 15.5 otpg.), steals (t-4th, 7.8 spg.) and blocks (3rd, 4.5 bpg.). The Lancers have forced 14+ turnovers in three straight games and average 15.5 points per game off turnovers.
•    Longwood has shot at least 44.0 percent from the floor in five straight games. The Lancers rank fourth in the Big South with a .445 (102-of-229) field goal percentage.
•    Longwood's trio of G Darrion Allen, F Khris Lane and G Isaiah Walton combines for 46.0 points per game, 66.4 percent of Longwood's scoring this season. All three rank among the Big South's top 10 in points per game and have combined for 10 of Longwood's 13 double-figure scoring games.
•    Allen, Lane and Walton all rank among the Big South's top 10 in minutes per game. Allen ranks second with 35.0 minutes per game, Lane sixth with 33.5 and Walton 10th with 30.8.
•    With 751 career points, Allen is on pace to become Longwood's first 1,000-point scorer since Tristan Carey scored 1,504 from 2011-14. If Allen maintains this season's 16.8 points-per-game average, he will finish with 1,205 points which would rank 13th on Longwood's all-time list and fifth in the Division I era.
•    Lane ranks among the Big South's top 10 in scoring (5th, 16.3 ppg.), rebounding (3rd, 8.3 rpg.), field goal percentage (3rd, .568) and blocks (t-3rd, 1.3 bpg.). Lane has scored in double figures in three of his four games and has grabbed at least eight rebounds in three games.
•    Junior G Kendrick Thompson has the second highest assist-to-turnover ratio in the Big South, averaging 2.3 assists for every turnover in his first season as a Lancer. Thompson, who averaged 13.6 points and 4.6 assists as a sophomore at Daytona State, leads Longwood with a +2.25 plus-minus rating.

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