Men's Basketball

MEN’S BASKETBALL at North Carolina A&T Wednesday • December 4, 2019 • 7 p.m. Greensboro, N.C. • Corbett Sports Center (5,000) 9 Video: NC A&T Aggies TV • Radio: WVHL 92.9 FM 2019-20 Schedule THE MATCHUP Longwood North Carolina A&T N 5 Marymount W 73-51 N 8 at George Mason L 65-76 LANCERS AGGIES N 12 Maryland Eastern Shore W 85-55 Farmville, Va. • Big South Conference Greensboro, N.C. • Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference N 14 St. Francis (Brooklyn) W 86-77 N 15 &Randolph W 78-53 N 18 &at Northern Illinois L 48-65 2019-20 Record ..................................................4-4 2019-20 ...................................................................2-6 N 26 &at UC Riverside L 58-71 Conference................................................ Big South Conference.......................... Mid-Eastern Athletic N 29 &at Pacific L 51-69 Last Game...................L, 69-51 at Pacific (11-28) Last Game......L, 61-45 vs. Jacksonville (11-30) D 4 at North Carolina A&T 7 p.m. Head Coach ...Griff Aldrich (Hampden-Sydney, ’96) Head Coach .....Jay Joyner (Mid. Tenn. St., ’00) Greensboro, N.C. (Corbett Sports Center) Career Record ............20-22 (Second Season) Career Record ..................49-68 (Fifth Season) D 7 at Morgan State 2 p.m. Longwood Record .......................................... Same N.C. A&T Record .............................................. Same D 15 at Stetson 4 p.m. Aldrich vs. North Carolina A&T ................... 0-0 Joyner vs. Longwood ....................................... 0-0 D 19 The Citadel 7 p.m. D 28 at George Washington 4 p.m. THE OPENING TIP LAST TIME OUT • Longwood will play on the East Coast for the first • Behind a game-high 17 points from Gary Chivi- J 2 *at Winthrop 7 p.m. time since Nov. 15 Wednesday night at North chyan, Pacific extended its nearly perfect home- J 4 *USC Upstate 3 p.m. Carolina A&T. The matchup follows three straight J 8 *at Charleston Southern 7:30 p.m. court campaign at Longwood’s expense, pulling J 11 *at Hampton 6 p.m. games in different time zones for the Lancers, who away from the Lancers 69-51 Friday to improve to J 16 *Presbyterian 7 p.m. have played at Northern Illinois, UC Riverside and 6-1 at the Spanos Center. J 18 *at Campbell 2 p.m. Pacific in consecutive games. • Chivichyan spearheaded a strong shooting per- J 20 *UNC Asheville 7 p.m. • After opening the season 4-0 at home, Longwood formance from the Tigers, finishing 7-of-14 from J 25 *at High Point 7 p.m. is midway through a six-game road swing. That the floor with three three-pointers to solve a Lanc- J 30 *Radford 7 p.m. stretch began on Nov. 18 and has the Lancers er defense that entered the matchup as the Big playing away from home for a full month. F 1 *at Gardner-Webb 4:30 p.m. South leader in opponent scoring average and • The Lancers are one of only two teams in the Big F 6 *Charleston Southern 7 p.m. second in both field goal defense and three-point F 8 *Winthrop 3 p.m. South to have not allowed an opponent to score field goal defense. F 10 *Campbell 7 p.m. 80 points this season. Longwood leads the con- • Chivichyan was one of four double-figure scor- F 13 *at UNC Asheville 7 p.m. ference in scoring defense, holding opponents to ers for the Tigers, who hit a season-high 12 F 15 *Hampton 6 p.m. 64.6 points per game. three-pointers against Longwood’s vaunted three- F 20 *at USC Upstate 3 p.m. • The 2019-20 Longwood basketball team is the point defense. F 22 *High Point 7 p.m. tallest in program history with an average height of • Longwood got 10 points and three blocks from F 27 *at Presbyterian 7 p.m. 6-4. Nine of the team’s 15 players are 6-5 or taller, JaShaun Smith along with 29 points from the BIG SOUTH CHAMPIONSHIP including the 6-11 and 6-10 duo of Abraham Deng bench. DeShaun Wade and Christian Wilson M 5 Big South First Round TBA and Ilija Stefanovic. both scored eight points off the bench. M 7 Big South Quarterfinals TBA M 8 Big South Semifinals TBA THE LINEUP M 10 Big South Championship TBA No. Name (Ht., Wt., Yr.) Pos. PPG RPG APG Notables 0 Leslie Nkereuwem (6-7, 215, Fr.) F 4.3 4.3 0.3 First player off the bench in every game this season Home games in BOLD | All times EST 1 Christian Wilson (6-6, 195, So.) F 9.4 3.4 0.9 No. 2 bench scorer in Big South at 9.4 points per game * Big South Game | &Collegiate Hoops Roadshow 2 Nate Lliteras (6-7, 205, Fr.) G — — — Averaged 13.7 points & 5.6 rebounds at Seward HS 3 •Shabooty Phillips (6-1, 185, Sr.) G 8.4 3.5 2.1 Preseason All-Big South second-team selection 4 •Jaylon Wilson (6-3, 190, Sr.) G 8.6 1.4 0.6 Snapped streak of 16 straight games w/ a 3-ptr in last game BROADCAST INFO 5 Bennett Mohn (6-6, 175, Fr.) F — — — All-district in Texas’ powerhouse District 25-6A as senior VIDEO: NC A&T Aggies TV 10 Ilija Stefanovic (6-10, 200, Jr.) F 1.5 0.0 0.3 Shot .514 (56-of-109) from the floor at Eastern Fla. CC 11 Sean Flood (6-2, 170, Sr.) G 4.0 0.8 0.6 Longwood is 7-0 when he scores 10+ points PBP: TBA 13 Heru Bligen (6-3, 180, Fr.) G 2.5 0.7 0.2 Has 5 made FG in just 36 minutes of action Website: https://www.nmnathletics.com/Premium- 14 •Abraham Deng (6-11, 225, Fr.) F 1.8 2.1 0.0 Has started every game of freshman campaign Video.dbml?DB_OEM_ID=24500 20 •Jordan Cintron (6-8-, 220, Jr.) F 7.5 6.1 0.9 No. 4 in Big South in rebounds per game 21 •JaShaun Smith (6-5, 200, Sr.) F 7.4 2.4 0.6 Needs just 171 points to reach 1,000 for career RADIO: WVHL Kickin’ Country 92.9 FM 22 DeShaun Wade (6-2, 210, So.) G 8.4 4.5 1.4 No. 3 bench scorer in Big South at 8.4 points per game PBP: Sam Hovan 24 Cameron O’Conner (6-5, 185, Fr.) G — — — Averaged 9.0 points & shot .410 from 3-pt range as senior Website: LongwoodLancers.com/WVHL 55 Juan Munoz (5-11, 170, R-So.) G 6.6 2.3 2.9 Team-leading 1.54 assist-to-turnover ratio • denotes projected starter Game 9: Longwood at North Carolina A&T • Dec. 4, 2019 • Greensboro, N.C. (Corbett Sports Center) LONGWOOD GAMEDAY > Notes Media Information BY THE NUMBERS QUICK FACTS • Longwood has two of the Big South’s top three MEDIA CONTACTS bench scorers in sophomores DeShaun Wade UNIVERSITY Chris Cook Name ............................................Longwood University Assistant VP/Athletics Communications and Christian Wilson. Wilson is the No. 2 scoring City/Zip .......................................... Farmville, VA 23909 Email: cookcc@longwood.edu reserve in the Big South at 9.4 points per game, Founded ................................................................ 1839 Office: 434-395-2718 while Wade ranks third on that list with 8.4 points Enrollment (Undergraduate + Graduate) .............. 5,124 Cell: 434-808-5127 per game. Both have come off the bench in every Nickname .......................................................... Lancers game this season, and the two have four dou- Colors ............................Navy Blue (PMS 289) & White INTERVIEW REQUESTS ble-figure scoring games apiece. Fight Song .....................................Hail to Longwood U! All interview requests for Longwood men’s Affiliation ...............................................NCAA Division I basketball players and coaches will be co- • Since taking over as head coach in 2018-19, Longwood head coach Griff Aldrich has led the Conference .....................................................Big South ordinated through the Longwood athletics President ...................................... W. Taylor Reveley IV communications office. Lancers to 13 more wins than the 2017-18 season Alma Mater ................................................Princeton (7-26). That plus-13 improvement is tied for the Director of Athletics ...........................Michelle Meadows GAME BROADCASTS second-largest turnaround of all D-I head coaches All Longwood men’s basketball games air Alma Mater ...........................................Virginia Tech live on WVHL 92.9 FM Kickin’ Country in who were hired along with Aldrich in 2018-19. Athletics Phone ......................................(434) 395-2057 Farmville, online at www.WVHL.net and on • Longwood has had a run of at least 9-0 in seven of Tickets Phone ........................................(434) 395-2138 the TuneIn Radio app. All Longwood home eight games this season. The largest of those was Website ............................ www.LongwoodLancers.com games and all Big South road games air live a 15-0 rally in the opener against Marymount. Facebook ................................./LongwoodLancers1839 on ESPN+. • The Lancers are among the Big South’s top de- Twitter ........................................... @LongwoodLancers Instagram ...................................... @LongwoodLancers fensive teams, leading the conference in scoring LONGWOODLANCERS.COM defense (64.6) and ranking third in opponent field For unparalleled coverage of the entire PROGRAM HISTORY intercollegiate athletics department at percentage (.412) and fifth in opponent three-point Seasons of Basketball ............................................... 44 Longwood, access LongwoodLancers. field goal percentage (.325). First Season .....................................................1976-77 com. The official site of Longwood athlet- • Longwood is one of only two teams in the Big All-Time Record ................................................549-685 ics features in-depth coverage of Long- South to have held every opponent under 80 Division I Eligible ......................................2007-Present wood players, coaches and staff as well as points this season. Lancer opponents have Division I Record ..................................130-262 (13) game notes, player biographies, statistics reached 80 points in just nine of head coach Griff First Season D-I Schedule ..........................2004-05 and updates on the Longwood men’s bas- Aldrich’s 42 games at the helm.

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