Longwood returns to ESPN later this week – Farmville Herald

One of the best big southern games of the season took place when Longwood hosted a High Point in front of a sold out crowd in a national television broadcast on January 16th.

The two teams will now give up ESPNU again on Thursday, February 13, 19:00, when Longwood travels to High Point to reflect on Big South Wildcard, the conference office and ESPN reported.

The game will move from its present Wednesday, February 12th to Thursday, February 13, and head at 7:00 pm at the center of Qubein at High Point University. He notes the fourth consecutive season that Longwood has been selected as national broadcasts repeatedly. Lancers will make their 11th appearance on ESPNU.

This will be the fourth meeting of all time of all time between the ESPNU team and the second this season, as Lancers prevailed 82-80 on January 16th thanks to the win of the Colby Garland game with a 2.5 second jumper.

Garland ended with 13 points, seven rebounds and six assists in this first panther meeting, while Elijah Tucker led five lancers in double digits with 16 points. Big South Preseason Player of the Year Kezza Giffa was walking High Point with 18 points.

Longwood, High Point both are strong

As this Lancers failure, High Point has been rolled out of four strict victories and is currently half a match in the first place in the 7-2 Big South ranking.

HPU is ranked # 17 in the latest collegeinsider.com poll in the middle of Major and entered the week as the highest rated team on the big south both in Kenpom (97) and on the network (97). Longwood, who won two of the three previous ESPNU matches, came this week, tied to third place in the 5-4 conference ranking. Longwood seems to take His first regular panther season of 2022-23.

This marks the 12th year of the Big South ESPNU Wildcard series, which again includes six shows for the first time on Thursday. After the competition on February 13, there will be two more this year, including one on February 20 and the final on February 27. The games were selected from 7 to 14 days in advance.

A total of 55 games were played in the series, which began in 2013-14, and while the hosts were 35-20, 55 competitions were set an average of 9.55 points, with 31 (56.4 percent) of these were with those who were solved by one -digit.