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Lancers Prep For Final Tune-Up Before Postseason

Longwood Heads to Rival Radford Saturday For Regular Season Finale

Game 31: Longwood (8-22, 4-13 BSC) vs. Radford (16-13, 9-8 BSC)
DateFebruary 27, 2016
Time4 p.m.
LocationRadford, Va. (Dedmon Center)
Game NotesLongwood (PDF) | Radford | Big South (PDF)
Season StatisticsLongwood (PDF) | Radford
Live StatsRadford Live Stats
RadioWVHL 92.9 FM Kickin' Country | Fox Sports 1340 AM
VideoBig South Network
Social Media@LongwoodLancers | @LongwoodMBB

The Opening Tip
•    Longwood and Radford meet Saturday in their final game of the 2015-16 regular season. The matchup has Big South seeding implications for both teams, as Radford could finish as high as fifth with a win, while the Lancers could climb into 10th.
•    Radford took the first meeting this season, 90-81, on Jan. 27 in Farmville, Va., behind a pair of 20-point efforts from YaYa Anderson and Cameron Jones. Longwood also had three 20-point scorers in Tra'Vaughn White (28), Kanayo Obi-Rapu (23) and Lotanna Nwogbo (21).
•    Obi-Rapu is questionable for Saturday with an illness. Obi-Rapu, who averages a team-high 16.7 points at home, has missed the past two games.
•    Longwood has lost four games by one possession since Jan. 6, including Thursday's 74-73, buzzer-beating defeat at the hands of Presbyterian.

Last Time Out
•    Presbyterian guard Will Adams missed a go-ahead three-pointer with four seconds left but got his own rebound and hit a baseline jumper at the buzzer to lift the Blue Hose to a 74-73 win over Longwood in the Lancers' home finale Thursday evening.
 •    After Tra'Vaughn White sank a contested layup to put the Lancers ahead 73-72 with 10 seconds to play, Adams got open on the corner and missed his first shot in the face of pressure from Longwood guard Bryan Gee, but the rebound went right back to Adams who hit an uncontested game-winner.
•    The lead changed hands five times in the final 1:15 of the game.
•    DeSean Murray scored 34 points for Presbyterian. 
•    Lotanna Nwogbo scored 24 points with 12 rebounds for Longwood. White scored 21, and Shaquille Johnson added a career-high 10 assists.
 
By The Numbers
•    The Lancers have lost four games by one possession since Jan. 6, including Thursday's 74-73 buzzer-beating loss to Presbyterian. The Lancers are 3-4 in games decided by one possession this season.
•    Senior Shaquille Johnson is the Big South assists leader in conference-only games, averaging 4.8 assists in 13 conference contests. On the season, he leads Longwood with 83 assists despite playing in just 18 games.
•    Johnson has at least five assists in six of his past seven games, including a career-high 10 Thursday against Presbyterian.
•    Senior Lotanna Nwogbo has seven consecutive double-doubles and double-doubles in eight of his past 10 games. His 13 double-doubles on the season lead the Big South with 10 of those coming in Big South play.
•    Nwogbo has more dunks (54) by himself than Longwood's opponents (40) this season.
•    Nwogbo leads the Big South in rebounding (8.3 rpg.) and double-doubles while ranking second in field goal percentage (.574 — 167-291), sixth in scoring (15.3 ppg.) and fifth in blocks (1.3 bpg.).
•    Senior Tra'Vaughn White leads all Big South players with 35.9 minutes per game in conference-only contests. White, who has missed time this season with a broken hand and a broken foot, has played 30-plus minutes in 13 straight games, including a career-high 49 in a 78-76 double-overtime win at Charleston Southern on Feb. 6.
•    White has scored in double figures in 12 of his past 13 games, averaging a team-high 17.0 points during that span. He has scored 20-plus points in three of those contests. 
•    Junior guard Darrion Allen leads the Big South with a .484 (45-of-93) three-point percentage. He is shooting .622 (23-of-37) from three-point range over his past six games with at least four treys in four of those games.

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Players Mentioned

Darrion Allen

#3 Darrion Allen

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6' 2"
Junior
Bryan Gee

#2 Bryan Gee

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6' 0"
Redshirt Freshman
Shaquille Johnson

#21 Shaquille Johnson

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6' 5"
Senior
Lotanna Nwogbo

#10 Lotanna Nwogbo

F/C
6' 8"
Redshirt Senior
Kanayo Obi-Rapu

#11 Kanayo Obi-Rapu

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6' 3"
Sophomore
Tra

#0 Tra'Vaughn White

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5' 10"
Redshirt Senior

Players Mentioned

Darrion Allen

#3 Darrion Allen

6' 2"
Junior
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Bryan Gee

#2 Bryan Gee

6' 0"
Redshirt Freshman
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Shaquille Johnson

#21 Shaquille Johnson

6' 5"
Senior
G/F
Lotanna Nwogbo

#10 Lotanna Nwogbo

6' 8"
Redshirt Senior
F/C
Kanayo Obi-Rapu

#11 Kanayo Obi-Rapu

6' 3"
Sophomore
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Tra

#0 Tra'Vaughn White

5' 10"
Redshirt Senior
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