The Opening Tip
•   Following a six-day break between games that is their longest since the start of Big South play, the Lancers heads to High Point Wednesday for a rematch of a game that Longwood won 55-51 on Jan. 24 in Farmville.
•   The Lancers endured a gauntlet of a Big South schedule in the first half of the conference season, playing 10 conference games in a span of 29 days. Longwood will play its final six Big South games in a stretch of 24 days.Â
•   For the first time this season, Longwood is on a four-game losing streak. The Lancers had never lost more than two games in a row prior last week's loss at Campbell and against Gardner-Webb.
•   First-year Longwood head coach
Griff Aldrich has engineered the best turnaround of all 55 newly hired Division I head coaches in terms of win improvement, adding six wins to Longwood's total from 2017-18.
Last Time Out
•   In a game that featured 10 lead changes, a 10-point Longwood comeback in the final two minutes of regulation, and a game-tying, buzzer-beating three-pointer by
Shabooty Phillips, Gardner-Webb did just enough in overtime to survive recharged Longwood 89-88 Thursday evening in Willett Hall.
•   Justin Jenkins sank a go-ahead putback layup with seven seconds left in overtime to spoil a comeback bid that saw Longwood erase a 10-point deficit in the final two minutes of regulation and force overtime on Phillips' game-tying three-pointer with nine seconds left.
•   David Efianayi scored 26 points, and Jose Perez added 24 for the Runnin' Bulldogs.
•   A season-high six players scored in double figures for Longwood, including a career-high 19 from
Jaylon Wilson and 13 points apiece from
Juan Munoz and
Jordan Cintron off the bench.
By The Numbers
•   Junior forward
JaShaun Smith has been at his most aggressive offensively this season, averaging 8.3 field goal attempts per game. He averaged just 5.3 attempts per game as a sophomore and 6.0 as a freshman.
•   Smith has attempted at least 10 field goals in 12 games this year. He did so just eight times in his first two seasons combined.
•   Smith is shooting .505 (109-of-216) from the floor on the season and .579 (22-of-38) over his past four games.
•   Of
Shabooty Phillips' five 20-point games this season, four have come in games following a loss.
•   Phillips is the Big South's leading free throw shooter at 86.7 percent (72-of-83), which ranks as the fifth-highest single-season mark in school history.Â
•   Of Seán Flood's 54 made field goals, 41 have come from three-point range.
•   Longwood first-year head coach
Griff Aldrich has already led Longwood to six more wins than the team had one season ago, which currently ranks as the biggest turnaround among the 55 NCAA Division I head coaches who are in their first season at their respective institutions this season.
•   Also in the first year under Aldrich, the Longwood men's basketball program logged its highest GPA in six years during the fall semester.
•   Longwood has held six of its past 12 opponents under 30.0 percent shooting from three-point range. Eleven of Longwood's 26 foes have shot under 30.0 percent from long range.
•   Longwood is just four wins shy of tying the program's single-season Division I wins record of 17, set by the 2008-09 Lancers. Longwood's 13 total wins this year are the most since the university joined the Big South in 2012-13. This year's Lancers have already as many games than the program did in the past two seasons combined.
Quotable
"I think that's a great example of what I think this team is right now. They're building a foundation for the program for the long term of what we want to be about."
— Head coach
Griff Aldrich, on the monthly "
Griff Aldrich Live at Effingham's" coach's show, recalling Longwood's comeback from 12 points down to force overtime against Gardner-Webb
Series History
•   Longwood and High Point meet for the second time this season and 24th time in series history Wednesday evening in High Point, N.C.
•  The Panthers lead the all-time series 23-10, though the Lancers have won two straight.
•   Longwood took the first matchup between the teams earlier this season, winning a defensive slugfest 55-51 in Willett Hall.Â
•   Longwood won in its last trip to the Millis Center, upsetting the No. 7 seed Panthers 68-55 in the first round of the 2018 Big South Championship. That was the start of a two-game win streak against the Panthers that marked the first time in the Big South era Longwood has defeated High Point in back-to-back games.
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