Longwood of the Big South comes to Halton on Monday riding its first ever 4-0 start in men’s hoops, including a 63-58 victory at Richmond.
Lancers are led by 6-5 redshirt senior G Isaiah Walton, who’s averaging 21 ppg, 7.5 rpg, 2 apg, and 2.3 spg. Had 21 pts and 12 rebs vs the Spiders.
First year head coach Griff Aldrich was an assistant under Ryan Odom at UMBC. Lancers were #10 in the preseason poll of the BSC’s 11 schools.
clt says shabooty is the best name in mbb
I hope shabooty for longwood scores 69.
This will be the fourth meeting between the schools and first since Longwood became a D-I program.
So, are the Men’s Soccer team and Lambert going to be recognized at the game tomorrow night?
If they are I’m sure they will leave at halftime just like all the student athletes from JMU game.
We won ugly tonight. There were some really weird stats. First of all we scored 15 points in the first half. Thankfully they only scored 19. Longwood takes more threes than almost every team in Div I, averaging 11 made threes per game. Tonight we held them to 4-19. The Lancers only shot 5 FTs tonight, so we played smart defense. We shot 26.2% for the game, which is a recipe for losing big, but we pulled it out. With 12 seconds left we were up 2 and Longwood got the ball. They took a TO, but had none left, so they were called for a Technical. John Davis got one shot and hit it. I don’t understand why it was only one shot, but we squeaked it out.
The last thing that surprised me was that Cooper Robb fouled out, and was replaced by walkon John Kitoko rather than McGill. Kitoko got 7 minutes, and McGill got 2. That seemed like the coach was sending a message.
Kitoko came in before Robb fouled out I’m pretty sure.
He did. He started coming in for Robb as the fouls built up.
Came in when Robb was in foul trouble, went out when Robb reentered, went in when Robb fouled out.
That game set basketball back 60 years. At least it was easy getting out of the deck.
After we took the lead, as the guys were getting in rhythm on O, Sanchez motioned on our next possession to slow down on O. I personally don’t get his thinking. Taking a good open shot early in the clock is not bad. I actually think you save energy for D by doing so. Otherwise, you spend 20 seconds wasting energy dribbling and passing the ball and then the last 10 seconds trying to get open for a rushed shot.
clt says the average fan doesn’t understand how good the long wood lancers are
Whatcha mean “slow down”. We were going so fast before that that we had about 4 shot clock violations. That’s like being stuck in bumper to bumper traffic and seeing a “reduce speed ahead” sign.
Nor how terrible it is to be lanced by long wood.
okay. i’ll be the first.
FIRE SANCHEZ!
i can’t locate the sarcasm dial.
Guys were playing faster, in rhythm and hitting shots around the 6-7 minute mark. Even the crowd got into it. This is the same we did against Chatt and OSU.
By no means am I saying that but he has to let them play. If not, we will have a lot of open schollies next year. We won’t have to worry about telling McGill to leave! 
We won shooting 26%. All us fans in attendance should have got chick fil a chicken for watching that.