MEN’S BASKETBALL at Iowa Saturday, November 29, 2014 • 2:07 p.m. Iowa City, Iowa • Carter-Hawkeye Arena (15,400) 7 Big Ten Network Plus • WVHL 92.9 FM (Farmville, Va.) • WVHL.net 2014-15 Schedule THE MATCHUP Longwood Iowa N 8 HAMPDEN-SYDNEY (Exh.) W, 95-60 N 14 AVERETT W, 79-53 LANCERS HAWKEYES N 19 at James Madison L, 82-60 N 21 vs. UNC Greensboro# W, 81-79 (OT) Farmville, Va. Iowa City, Iowa N 22 vs. Youngstown State# L, 82-72 N 23 at Eastern Michigan# L, 79-48 N 26 at George Washington L, 91-66 2014-15 Record ....................................................2-4 2014-15 Record ....................................................4-2 N 29 at Iowa 2:07 p.m. Conference................................................ Big South Conference..................................................... Big Ten Iowa City, Iowa (Carter-Hawkeye Arena) Last Game... L, 91-66 at George Washington (11/26) Last Game........W, 79-49 vs. Northern Illinois (11/26) D 3 DARTMOUTH 7 p.m. Head Coach ........Jayson Gee (Charleston, ’88) Head Coach .....Fran McCaff ery (Wharton, ’82) D 6 UT-MARTIN 5 p.m. Career Record ...............170-83 (Ninth Season) Career Record .............329-242 (19th Season) D 14 at UMBC 2 p.m. Longwood Record ......10-29 (Second Season) Iowa Record .......................78-65 (Fifth Season) D 17 at Miami (OH) 7 p.m. vs. Iowa ........................................... Never Played ............................... Never Played D 20 PENN STATE BEAVER 2 p.m. vs. Longwood D 28 at Ball State 2 p.m. D 31 at Winthrop* 1 p.m. THE OPENING TIP LAST TIME OUT J 3 RADFORD* 5 p.m. • Longwood concludes a stretch of six consecutive • George Washington’s starting fi ve combined for J 8 at Coastal Carolina* 7:30 p.m. road games this Saturday at Iowa. Longwood has J 10 at Charleston Southern* 7 p.m. 66 points to lead the Colonials to a 91-66 win over J 14 PRESBYTERIAN* 7 p.m. played those six games in a span of 11 days. Longwood Wednesday. J 17 LIBERTY* 5 p.m. • The Iowa game will mark Longwood’s second • Point guard Joe McDonald neared a triple-double J 19 at High Point* 7 p.m. straight against a top-40 RPI team. Longwood fell, with eight points, seven assists and 10 rebounds, J 22 at Gardner-Webb* 7 p.m. J 28 UNC ASHEVILLE* 7 p.m. 91-66, Wednesday at George Washington, ranked while John Kapriva scored 19 points on 6-of-8 J 31 at Presbyterian* 7 p.m. No. 36 in the Ratings Percentage Index. Iowa is shooting from the fi eld. ranked No. 30 in ESPN’s most recent RPI. • Longwood center Lotanna Nwogbo recorded F 3 GARDNER-WEBB* 7 p.m. • Redshirt junior center Lotanna Nwogbo ranks F 6 at UNC Asheville* 7 p.m. his second double-double of the year with career F 11 at Radford* 5 p.m. among the Big South’s top fi ve in points per game, highs of 25 points, 13 rebounds and 10-of-11 F 14 CHARLESTON SOU.* 5 p.m. rebounds per game, fi eld goal percentage and shooting from the fi eld. F 17 at Liberty* 7 p.m. free throw percentage. • Nwogbo’s performance came against a George F 21 WINTHROP* 5 p.m. F 23 COASTAL CAROLINA* 7 p.m. • Longwood has forced opponents into 103 turn- Washington team that had surrendered the few- F 28 CAMPBELL* 2 p.m. overs this season, the most of any team in the Big est points per game in the Atlantic 10 and had not South. The Lancers force an average of 17.2 turn- allowed a 20-point scorer all season. Nwogbo is M 3-8 Big South Tournament TBA overs per game and average 17.3 points per game only the second player to hit more than fi ve fi eld Home games in BOLD CAPS off those turnovers. goals against George Washington this season. # EMU Showcase Tournament (Ypsilanti, Mich.) THE OPENING TIP * Big South game All times eastern and subject to change No. Name (Ht., Wt., Yr.) Pos. PPG RPG APG Notables 0 Tra’Vaughn White (5-10, 190, Jr.) G -- -- -- Will sit out 2014-15 season due to NCAA transfer rules 1 Leron Fisher (5-11, 160, Jr.) G 5.8 1.5 2.2 Conference-leading 12 steals, 3 games with 3+ steals 2 Bryan Gee (6-0, 175, Fr.) G -- -- -- Will redshirt 2014-15 season 3 • Darrion Allen (6-2, 165, So.) G 9.7 3.0 1.2 Two 20-point games this season 4 Khris Lane (6-6, 225, So.) F -- -- -- Will sit out 2014-15 season due to NCAA transfer rules facebook.com/ 10 • Lotanna Nwogbo (6-8, 255, R-Jr.) C 16.3 8.7 0.0 Double-digit scoring in all 6 games this season LongwoodLancers1839 11 Kanayo Obi-Rapu (6-3, 190, Fr.) G 3.8 2.8 0.8 11 points, 3-of-4 shooting from 3-pt range vs. YSU 14 Victor Dorsey (6-9, 200, Fr.) F 0.5 2.0 0.0 8 rebs in second career game vs. Eastern Michigan 15 Isaac Belton (6-4, 205, So.) G 2.8 1.5 0.3 Scored 5 points in 3 minutes in season-opener 21 • Shaquille Johnson (6-5, 220, Jr.) G/F 10.3 3.0 3.7 Leads team with 22 assists, 4th most in Big South twitter.com/ 23 Ryan Badowski (6-3, 185, Fr.) G 12.3 2.5 0.5 Has 25 3-ptrs in fi rst 7 games (including exhibition) 24 • Damarion Geter (6-7, 215, So.) F 1.5 3.3 2.2 Tied for team lead with 5 blocks LongwoodLancers 25 • Quincy Taylor (6-0, 180, R-Sr.) G 10.7 3.0 4.0 10.7 points, 4.0 assists in fi rst 3 games at Longwood 30 Tyler Akers (6-4, 180, Sr.) G 0.5 0.3 0.3 Elected team captain as a senior • denotes projected starter Longwood at Iowa • Nov. 29, 2014 • Iowa City, Iowa (Carter-Hawkeye Arena) LONGWOOD GAMEDAY > Notes BY THE NUMBERS Media Information LONGWOOD MBB • Longwood has forced opponents into a confer- QUICK FACTS MEDIA CONTACTS ence-leading 103 turnovers, which is 17 more Chris Cook, Assistant VP/Athletics than the next closest Big South team. The Lancers Communications have forced at least 10 turnovers in all six games UNIVERSITY Email: [email protected] this season and are averaging 17.2 points per Name .......................................... Longwood University Offi ce: 434-395-2718 game off opponent turnovers. City/Zip ........................................Farmville, Va. 23909 Cell: 434-808-5127 • Longwood is the only team in the Big South Founded ...............................................................1839 Jacob Bell, External Relations Assistant Enrollment (Undergraduate) ................................4,507 with four players averaging double-digit scoring. Email: [email protected] Nickname .........................................................Lancers Offi ce: 434-395-4802 Lotanna Nwogbo (16.3 ppg.), Ryan Badowski Colors .......................... Navy Blue (PMS 282) & White Cell: 615-424-6743 (12.3), Quincy Taylor (10.7) and Shaquille John- Fight Song ................................... Hail to Longwood U! son (10.3) and are all averaging double fi gures. Affi liation .............................................NCAA Division I INTERVIEW REQUESTS • Led by center Lotanna Nwogbo, Longwood is av- Conference ...................................................Big South All interview requests for Longwood eraging 32.7 points in the paint per game over the President ..................W. Taylor Reveley IV (Princeton) men’s basketball players and coaches past three games. That output has increased from Director of Athletics .........................Troy Austin (Duke) will run through the Longwood athletics the 27.3 points in the paint per game Longwood Athletics Phone ....................................(434) 395-2057 communications offi ce. Contact Chris Tickets Phone ......................................(434) 395-2138 averaged over its fi rst three games. Cook or Jacob Bell to set up interviews. Website ...........................www.LongwoodLancers.com • Center Lotanna Nwogbo has scored in double Twitter ..........................................@LongwoodLancers GAME BROADCASTS fi gures in all six games this season and leads All Longwood men’s basketball Longwood with 16.3 points per game. Nwogbo is PROGRAM HISTORY games air live on WVHL 92.9 FM averaging 18.3 points and 9.0 rebounds per game Seasons of Basketball ..............................................39 Kickin’ Country in Farmville, online at over his last three outings. First Season ................................................... 1976-77 www.WVHL.net and on the TuneIn • Nwogbo is the Big South leader in fi eld goal per- All-Time Record ..............................................498-471 Radio app. Select games stream centage, hitting 66.1 percent (37-of-56) of his Division I Eligible ....................................2007-Present on a free, live video broadcast on shots from the fl oor. Nwogbo is also among the Division I Record ....................................79-146 (8) the Big South Network, available at league’s top free throw shooters, sinking .857 (24- First Season D-I Schedule ........................ 2004-05 www.bigsouthsports.com/schedule. Reclassifying D-I Record..........................20-72 (3) of-28) of his shots from the charity stripe. Scott Bacon, the voice of the Lancers, Division II Eligible ....................................... 1980-2004 carries radio broadcasts on WVHL, while • Junior guard Shaquille Johnson has dished out Division II Record ...............................342-317 (24) Jacob Bell and Richard LeSueur handle at least three assists in every game this season Division II Tournament App. ..................................3 commentary on the Big South Network. and has scored in double fi gures four times. He Division II Tournament Record ..........................2-4 All Big South games also air on WHAP leads Longwood with 22 assists. Division III Eligible .......................................... 1976-80 1340 AM in Hopewell, Va. • Freshman guard Ryan Badowski has made at Division III Record ....................................57-36 (4) least three treys in four of his six games and has Division III Tournament App.