The Longwood men's basketball team has taken yet another injury blow with the news that redshirt sophomore guard Bryan Gee will not play for the remainder of the season. Gee, son of Lancers head coach Jayson Gee, is suffering from overtraining syndrome, stemming from an emergency appendectomy ...
Campbell pulled away from the Longwood women’s basketball team during a third quarter surge on Jan. 21 in Willett Hall. The Camels defeated Longwood 66-54 on the Saturday afternoon contest, dropping Longwood to 3-14 (0-6) and Campbell to 13-4 (5-1). The Lancers opened up the game strongly and gained ...
While Longwood students were away on winter break, the men’s basketball team had ups and downs. Following fall finals, the Lancers went 5-7 over the six-week period, capped off by a 76-61 loss at Charleston Southern on Jan. 21. Head coach Jayson Gee’s squad wrapped up non-conference play with four ...
Longwood came up with their first win of the season on Nov. 20 after three consecutive losses. The Lancers (1-3) came out strong and finished with a 72-59 victory over the University of Massachusetts Lowell (0-4) after trailing by eight points at halftime. Longwood sophomore forward Kemari Jones had ...
Schizophrenia; a complex mental illness that creates a constant state of confusion for the person, characterized by delusions, hallucinations, and strange behavior. According to the World Health Organization, the incurable disorder causes complications in the minds of over 21 million people worldwide, ...
Longwood men's basketball senior Shaquille Johnson competed in the State Farm College Slam Dunk Contest last night on ESPN as the first Lancer to appear in the showdown. A tenth of a point kept him from advancing from the first round, needing a social media surge from Twitter to push him past ...
ESPN will set the stage for Longwood senior Shaquille Johnson and seven other collegiate men’s basketball players from programs across the nation to compete for the State Farm College Slam Dunk crown on Thursday evening, March 31. When the clock strikes 9 p.m., the Lancer logo will blaze in front ...
Sophomore guard Kanayo Obi-Rapu Jr. will reportedly look to transfer from Longwood for his final two years of eligibility, according to Justin Byerly, the director of recruiting for BasketballElite.com and a contributor to the Charlotte Observer in ...
Emotions ran high as another season of Longwood’s men’s basketball came to end. Three-year head coach Jayson Gee and two of his most impactful players, seniors Lotanna Nwogbo and Shaquille Johnson, sat in the post-game press conference after their quarterfinals finale, falling 89-78 to top-seeded ...
Seeing space near the top of the paint with 3:58 left in the fourth quarter, Daeisha Brown drove from the right flank to just inside the free throw line to find herself in wide open space. Without pausing, the 5-foot-3 point guard released a jumper and hit her mark. No celebration followed, Brown just ...
The Longwood’s women basketball team (6-20, 3-14) will head to Liberty for their last road game of the season this Saturday, Feb. 27. Coming off their sixth straight loss to Radford, the Lancers will face the Flames (15-10, 12-4, Big South) while on their longest losing streak of the season. “We ...
A slow start sentenced the Longwood men’s basketball team to a fourth straight defeat against Gardner-Webb University, losing 81-71 on Saturday, Feb 20. The short-handed Lancers dropped to 8-21 on the season and sit at the bottom of the Big South Conference, while the Runnin’ Bulldogs improved to ...
Longwood men’s basketball came up short in a tight and tense contest against Liberty University, losing 69-68. The Lancers had a chance to win on the final possession, but were unable to and fell to an 8-19 overall record, while the Flames improved to 12-15. In front of a sellout crowd on Feb. 13, ...
Nothing came free on Tuesday night, except for the t-shirts, as the Lancers fell 89-70 (6-19, 3-13) to the No. 6 High Point Panthers (9-15, 8-7) in Willett Gym on Longwood’s Pink Out game. After scoring in the first 8-of-9 possessions, the Panthers’ held the lead for all 40 minutes. The loss exploited ...
Longwood men’s basketball came up short in a tight and tense contest against Liberty University, losing 69-68. The Lancers had a chance to win on the final possession, but were unable to and fell to an 8-19 overall record, while the Flames improved to 12-15. In front of a sellout crowd on Feb. 13, ...
Sophomore guard Autumn Childress led the way for Longwood (6-17, 3-11) with her first career double-double with 17 points and 12 rebounds, but it wasn’t enough to fuel a comeback in a 61-54 loss to the UNC Asheville Bulldogs (10-4, 12-2) on Tuesday, Feb. 9. Head women’s basketball coach Bill Reinson ...
The Longwood men’s basketball team came out on top in a double overtime thriller over Charleston Southern University on the road, 78-76. The win brings the Lancers to 8-17 on the season, while the Buccaneers to 8-16. The Feb. 6 win was the team’s second-straight, coming after another dramatic late ...
It was a summer evening. Shaquille Johnson, a senior on the Longwood men’s basketball team, lay in bed, fast asleep in his Georgia home. There was no alarm set for morning lifting or late night practice, so a full night of sleep awaited him when his phone rang without warning, waking him. He answered ...
For Eboni Gilliam, the drive to play Division I basketball outweighed the difficulty of the long path ahead of her to perform at that level of competition. The first step was to leave her community college in Nebraska to journey south and play for Cape Fear Community College in Wilmington, North Carolina. “When ...
Aside from the bands for Spring Weekend, Wednesday night’s game revealed Longwood’s ability to pull out an 80-79 home win after the Campbell Camels took them to the wire, making every second count. As the net swished from his second free throw, redshirt-senior guard Tra’Vaughn White didn’t realize ...
