Game 31 • Longwood (17-13, 6-9 Big South) at USC Upstate (6-24, 2-13 Big South)
Date & Time	Saturday, March 1, 2025 | 2 p.m.
Location	Spartanburg, S.C. | G.B. Hodge Center
Game Notes	Longwood | Big South
Statistics	Longwood | USC Upstate | Big South
TV/Stream	ESPN+
Live Stats	Live Stats
Tickets	USC Upstate Tickets
Social Media	@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

THE OPENING TIP
•    Longwood plays its final regular season contest on Saturday, March 1 with a trip to USC Upstate in Spartanburg, South Carolina.
•    The Lancers are in the midst of a tight race in the middle of the Big South standings, and the team is currently part of a three-way tie for fifth with Presbyterian and Charleston Southern.
•    A win for Longwood guarantees that they would finish out of the play-in game at the 2025 Hercules Tires Big South Basketball Championship.
•    A season ago, Longwood also needed a win on the final day of the regular season to avoid the play-in, and the Lancers did so in thrilling fashion on a buzzer beater against High Point to finish as the fifth seed.
•    Longwood takes on a USC Upstate side that has four players averaging double figures in scoring, with Mister Dean leading the team at 15.7 points per game.
 
LAST TIME OUT
•    Longwood fell victim to a hot-shooting Winthrop side on Thursday night, losing 85-59.
•    The Eagles hit a season-high 16 threes, with Bryce Baker making nearly half of them with seven triples to tie a career high.
•    Baker poured in a game high 23 points, and Nick Johnson and Kasen Harrison had 10 points apiece for the Eagles.
•    Kyrell Luc led Longwood with 13 points, and Johan Nziemi and Jaylen Benard reached double figures with 10 points each.
•    However, Winthrop broke the game open by holding Longwood scoreless over the final 6:10 of the first half to build a 21 point lead at the break, and the Eagles never relented.
•    The Winthrop defense was opportunistic, matching a season high by forcing 23 turnovers and holding Longwood to 38 percent shooting.
 
BY THE NUMBERS
•    Longwood plays its final true road game of the regular season with the trip to USC Upstate on Saturday.
•    The Lancers have four true road wins this season, a mark the team has achieved in each of the past seven years.
•    Prior to Griff Aldrich taking over, the Lancers only had one season with four true road wins since the 2004-05 campaign.
•    Longwood has had at least 15 assists in a game eight times this year, and the Lancers are 6-2 in such contests.
•    The team ranks third in the Big South with 13.3 assists per game.
•    Colby Garland leads the league with 129 assists, and Kyrell Luc is seventh with 99.
•    The Lancers are also 14-1 this season when winning the battle on the glass.
•    Longwood averages 11 offensive rebounds per game, and the team has grabbed at least 12 offensive rebounds 11 times.
•    The Lancers are tied with Winthrop in turnovers forced per game (14.7), and Longwood has forced at least 18 turnovers eight times this year.
•    When the Lancers force at least 18 turnovers, they are 5-3, with two of the three losses coming to Power Four teams (Kansas State and SMU).
•    Longwood has scored at least 80 points 15 times this season, and the Lancers are 11-4 in such games.
•    The Lancers have also held the opposition under 70 points 11 times this season, and the team is 10-1 when doing so.
•    Longwood has made at least 10 threes in a game four times, and the team is 2-2 when making double-digit three-pointers.
•    The Lancers are also 11-3 when holding teams to below 30 percent shooting from three.