Game 25 • Longwood (14-10, 2-7 Big South) vs. USC Upstate (7-15, 2-7 Big South)
Date & Time	Wednesday, February 7, 2024 (7 p.m.)
Location	Farmville, Va. (Joan Perry Brock Center)
Game Notes	Longwood | USC Upstate | Big South
Statistics	Longwood | USC Upstate | Big South
Live Stats	Live Stats
Live Video	ESPN+
Live Radio	WVHL
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

OPENING TIP
•    Longwood returns home to host USC Upstate on Wednesday night at the Joan Perry Brock Center.
•    The game is sponsored by The Yeatman Group.
•    It is the first of four final home games for the Lancers.
•    Longwood is 10-2 at the Joan Perry Brock Center this season.
•    Longwood will take on USC Upstate and Winthrop in back-to-back home games this week.
•    The Lancers met USC Upstate earlier this season, falling in a heartbreaker on the road as USC Upstate hit a buzzer beater.
•    Seven players have led, or tied for the team lead, in scoring this year for Longwood.
•    Ten different players have scored in double figures in a game, and five players have topped 20 points.
•    The Lancers have won the battle on the boards 21 times in 23 games this season and are 13-8 when doing so.
 
LAST TIME OUT
•    A'lahn Sumler led Charleston Southern past Longwood on Saturday afternoon with a career best 34 points.
•    Sumler had 12 points in the first half before erupting for 22 points in the final 20 minutes.
•    Walyn Napper led Longwood with 21 points, and Elijah Tucker and Michael Christmas added 17 points apiece.
•    Emanuel Richards added 11 points, all after halftime, for the Lancers.
•    Charleston Southern jumped out to an early 15 point lead, but the Lancers slowly worked their way back into the game.
•    After halftime, Longwood trimmed the lead to 36-33, but Sumler and Quentin Bolton both hit big threes for CSU. 
•    Longwood again trimmed the deficit to three on a Tucker free throw, but CSU had the answer in the final to minutes to fend off the Lancers.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
•    Longwood will play its 13th home game of the season on Wednesday night.
•    The Lancers are 10-2 at home this season and 64-22 in Farmville under head coach Griff Aldrich.
•    Longwood has outrebounded opponents by 10.5 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.
•    Longwood has snared at least 20 offensive rebounds twice in the past three games.
•    The team's 14.5 offensive boards per game is the eighth-best mark in the nation and top number in the Big South.
•    Three players average two offensive rebounds per game: Szymon Zapala, Michael Christmas and Elijah Tucker.
•    Tucker has led the team in conference with 23 offensive boards, 2.6 per game.
•    Longwood averages 15.5 second chance points per game.
•    The team has scored at least 20 seconds chance points in a game seven times this year.
•    Longwood averages 40 points in the paint per game this season.
•    Longwood has only been outscored in the paint  in a game twice this season.
•    Five players have scored at least 20 points in game: Johnathan Massie (3 times), Walyn Napper (3), Szymon Zapala (2), Michael Christmas (1) and Elijah Tucker (1).
•    The Lancers have had four players score in double figures 12 times this season.
•    Longwood averages 23.3 free throw attempts per game, the fourth-best mark in the Big South and 28th best in the nation.
 
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