Game 10 • Longwood (8-1) at Delaware State (6-6)
Date & Time	Saturday, Dec. 9, 2023 (2 p.m.)
Location	Dover, Del. (Memorial Hall)
Game Notes	Longwood | Delaware State | Big South
Statistics	Longwood | Delaware State
Live Stats	DSU Live Stats
Live Video	DESU-TV
Live Radio	WVHL
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

OPENING TIP
•    Longwood wraps up a two-game road trip with a stop in Delaware at Delaware State.
•    The two sides played a thrilling double-overtime contest earlier in the season at the Brock Challenge, with Longwood winning 84-82.
•    The Lancers have won eight straight, which is tied for the third-longest winning streak in the nation. Baylor and Princeton have each won nine straight, and Longwood is part of a seven-way tie for third.
•    Longwood is in a stretch where it plays five of its next seven games on the road during the month of December.
•    The Lancers have gone 2-1 on the road this season, with wins at both Maryland Eastern Shore and Morgan State.
•    Four players have recorded at least one double-double this season for the Lancers in Michael Christmas (2), Szymon Zapala (2), Elijah Tucker (1), and Johnathan Massie (1).
 
LAST TIME OUT
•    Longwood dominated the final 30 minutes on Sunday at Morgan State to turn a 14-point deficit into a 34 point win.
•    Down 31-17 in the first half, the Lancers outscored the Bears 71-23 over the final 27:30 to cruise to an 88-54 win.
•    Elijah Tucker had his finest game as a Lancer with 17 points and 11 rebounds, including six offensive boards.
•    Walyn Napper stuffed the stat sheet with 13 points, 5 rebounds, 7 assists and 2 steals. Michael Christmas (12 points, 7 rebounds) and Jesper Granlund (12 points) also scored in double figures.
•    The Lancers locked up Morgan State in the second half and only gave up 16 points to the home side.
•    After going into the half down 38-37, a decisive 22-0 run keyed Longwood to the win after halftime.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
•    Longwood has one of the top defenses in the nation, holding teams to 60.6 points per game on the season, the 10th best mark in the nation and top number in the Big South.
•    The Lancers have won eight straight games, tied with BYU, Ole Miss, Colorado State, Houston and Oklahoma for the third-longest winning streak in the nation.
•    Over the past three games, Longwood has held its opposition to 49.3 points per game.
•    The Lancers have only surrendered more than 30 points in a half one time in that stretch.
•    The team's .385 field goal percentage defense leads the Big South and ranks 28th in the nation.
•    Longwood also hammers the glass and is outrebounding its opponents by 15.2 boards per game, the fourth-best mark in the nation.
•    The Lancers lead the Big South in offensive rebounding at 15 offensive boards per game, good for 15th nationally.
•    They have grabbed at least 15 offensive boards in a game five times and have surpassed 20 twice.
•    Seven players are averaging at least one offensive rebound per game, with Szymon Zapala (25 offensive rebounds) and Michael Christmas (21 offensive rebounds) leading the team.
•    The Lancer offense also gets to the foul line a ton, ranking 14th in the nation with 27.2 free throw attempts per game.
•    Longwood has shot at least 30 free throws in a game three times this season.
•    The Lancers have shot more free throws than their opponent eight times this season in nine games.
•    Johnathan Massie is 74th in the nation and leads Longwood with 51 free throw attempts. Michael Christmas is second on the team with 46 attempts.
•    Longwood has scored 150 second-chance points, and the team has had at least 20 second-chance points in a game four times.
•    The team has three players averaging at least 10 points per game, and five different players have led the team in scoring in a game.
 
QUOTABLE
"To be 8-1 right now is exciting. I told the team, I'm very excited about this group because they want to be good. They're trying. I didn't think we played super clean defensively, but I thought the last 30 minutes, we played hard. We tried to rebound. This is a group, that if they maintain this mindset and this attitude, we'll be able to clean up more and more of the mistakes and be able to progress to become a better team. I think this team has a much higher ceiling than where we are today, and if we stay on that trajectory, I'm excited to see where we'll go."
—Longwood Head Coach Griff Aldrich after Morgan State

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