Game Information
Opponent: Longwood
Date: Feb. 27, 2020
Site: Templeton Center (Clinton, S.C.)
Radio: WPCC
Announcers: Ryan Clary (PbP)
TV Broadcast: ESPN3
Announcers: Tyler Shugart, Kenn Blankenship (Analyst)
Live Stats: Presbyterian.Statbroadcast.com
Twitter: @BlueHoseSports
 
PC leads the series 10-3
Last 2 meetings:
2020: PC 74, LWU 67
2019: PC 71, LWU 64
 
Longwood
Record: 13-17, 8-9
Ranking: n/a
Last Game: Feb. 22, 2020, vs. High Point, W 57-54, in Farmville, Va.            
Head Coach: Griff Aldrich
Career Record: 29-35 (2nd year)
LWU Record: 29-35 (2nd year)
vs. PC: 0-2
 
Presbyterian College
Record: 9-10, 6-10
Ranking: n/a
Last Game: Feb. 22, 2020 at UNC Asheville, L, 64-75, in Asheville, N.C.
Head Coach: Quinton Ferrell
Career Record: 9-20 (1st year)
PC Record: 9-20 (1st year)
vs. LWU: 1-0
 
NOTES
Presbyterian College returns to the Templeton Center for the final time of the regular season with a two-game home stand, the first a 7 p.m., contest against Longwood Thursday, Feb. 29 ... The Blue Hose own a 10-3 record over the Lancers and took the last meeting, 74-67, earlier this season ... 
 
PC shot almost 60% from the field, tied a season-high with 10 three-pointers, and survived a late Lancer run, to win its record fourth Big South game in a row in a 74-67 win at Longwood in the last meeting, in Farmville, Va. ... Cory Hightower led the team with 16 points, eight rebounds, and six assists ...
 
Longwood is 13-17 overall and 8-9 in the Big South Conference after a 57-54 win in its last contest ... Juan Munoz leads the Lancers in scoring with 11.0 points per game, with Jordan Cintron, who is averaging 6.4 ppg, leading on the boards with 6.4 rebounds per game ... Longwood is averaging 67.9 points, 34.7 rebounds, and 11.0 assists per game ...
 
PC is 9-20 overall and 6-10 in the league, after dropping a 64-75 decision at UNC Asheville in its last contest ... Cory Hightower leads the team in points (13.3), and rebounds (6.0) per game ... The Blue Hose are averaging 67.6 points, 33.3 rebounds, and 12.2 assists per game  ...
 
UNC Asheville used a 26-11 run over a 10-minute stretch to erase a 10-point halftime deficit en route to a 75-64 victory over the Blue Hose at Kimmel Arena in PC's last game ... Zeb Graham led the Blue Hose with 18 points, while Cory Hightower had 17 points and 12 rebounds in the contest ...
 
With 13 points at Radford earlier this season JC Younger hit the 1,000-point career plateau, which made him the fifth player in PC DI history to reach the historic number ... He is now in the top five in PC DI career scoring ... With a three-pointer at Longwood JC also took over the top spot in the PC Division I career record book with 215 …
 
With 12 points against Gardner-Webb Cory Hightower eclipsed 500 career points (now at 688) ...
 
PC experienced a five-game winning streak earlier this season, which tied for the longest winning streak since the 2017 season when the team picked up five straight ... The Blue Hose have won at least four games in a row just twice in their Division I history ...
 
In league play the Blue Hose have been averaging 4.0 points higher, and are shooting .343 from the perimeter against league opponents, compared to .317 overall ... Cory Hightower is scoring 1.3 more points per game, while freshman Zeb Graham is averaging 2.1 more ...
 
Ben Drake's career-high 16 rebounds in the first meeting against Gardner-Webb tied for fifth in the PC DI record book ... The team's 52 rebounds that same game tied for sixth in the PC DI record book ...
 
A young team in 2019-20, the Blue Hose have enlisted several new starters this season ... Nine times this season, four freshmen started along with sophomore Cory Hightower ... Other starters have been Michael Isler, who is averaging 27.3 minutes, as well as Zeb Graham, Sean Jenkins, and Owen McCormack, who are averaging over 15 minutes a game ...
 
Michigan was the third and final team that PC played this season from one of the Power 5 conferences ... The Blue Hose faced ACC's Clemson on Nov. 7 and Notre Dame Nov. 18 ... Michigan was the only ranked opponent, sitting 14th/15th ...
 
The Blue Hose are making marks in the PC DI season stats record book ... Currently PC is second in scoring average (67.6) and field goal percentage (.455), third in rebounding average (33.3), second in assists average (12.2), fifth in steals average (5.9), fifth in field goal percentage defense (.452), and second in rebounding margin (-0.2) ...
 
Several Blue Hose are showing up in the Big South stats ... Cory Hightower is 13th in scoring (13.3) and tied for ninth in rebounds (6.0), while Ben Drake is 13th in rebounding (5.4) ... Chris Martin is 12th in assists (2.7), Hightower is 14th (2.6) ... Martin is tied for eighth in steals (1.4) ... JC Younger is tied for 12th in three-pointers made (1.6) ... Hightower is ninth in minutes played (32.5) ...
 
In conference play the Blue Hose are in the top five in several categories, including free throw percentage (.725 - 2nd), field goal percentage (.485 - 2nd), rebounding defense (30.7 - 1st), as well as rebounding margin (+2.0 - 4th) ...
 
A new season brings a new coaching staff with the addition of 2007 PC alum Quinton Ferrell ... An integral member of the basketball team as a student-athlete he served as an assistant coach from graduation to 2012 ... After stops at The Citadel and Army, he settled at College of Charleston for five seasons from 2014-19 ... In his fourth season the Cougars made a memorable run that included the program's second-straight 25-win campaign, an impressive 26-8 overall record and 14-4 mark in CAA play ... The co-regular-season champions won the CAA Men's Basketball Championship and earned their first trip to the NCAA Tournament since 1999 ...
 
Ferrell brought with him a new staff with the additions of Ben Korren, Trey Meyer, Nick Lagroone as assistant coaches, Trey Johnson as Director of Basketball Operations, and Erik Goldbach as Video Coordinator ...
 
The Blue Hose are looking for another strong season at the Templeton Center in 2019-20, after finishing 12-3 at home last season ... The 12 wins at home was the most in its DI history ... PC is 6-5 at home so far this season ...
 
The 20 wins in 2018-19 by the Blue Hose were most in PC DI history ... The Blue Hose recorded 14 wins in 2011-12 (14-15) ... The record for most wins all-time is 27, set in 92-93 and 2002-03 ... The last time the Blue Hose won at least 20 games was in 2006-07, the final year of Division II, the team went 20-9 ...
 
Last season PC posted nine conference wins (9-7), which was tied for the most in its DI history ... The Blue Hose were 9-9 in 2008-09 ... The team is currently 6-10 in Big South play ...
 
PC has made at least one three-pointer in the last 404 games ... PC has hit one three-pointer in several games, the last against Clemson in 2015, but has not been held without one in its entire Division I history ...