Basketball

Final destination: Division I

By Payton Conway | February 10

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 ...

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Basketball

Healthy and hungry

By Halle Parker | January 27

In most cases, a 5-14 losing record is not viewed positively. Even though it was a marked improvement from Longwood women’s basketball going 4-26 overall last season with 10 regular season games left, redshirt junior guard Daeisha Brown called the record what it was. “Bad,” said Brown candidly. Both ...

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Women’s Basketball Losing Streak Goes to Seven

By Eric Hobeck | February 20

After a white-hot start to their conference schedule, the Longwood women’s basketball team has fallen on hard times as of late, losing seven games in a row and one last week, with two games ahead this week. The Lancers (9-16, 6-8 Big South) played Radford on Thursday, trailing 27-23 at halftime and ...

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Women’s Basketball Fighting for Redemption

By Natalie Joseph | February 13

This past week, the women’s basketball team fell to the High Point Panthers and the Liberty Flames for the second time this season. Despite both losses, the Lancers (9-15, 6-7 Big South) will have to quickly recover for their next tough home game against Radford on Thursday Feb. 14. Both of these ...

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Longwood Women's Basketball: Lancers’ Slump Continues

By Nick Conigliaro | February 6

The Longwood women’s basketball team continued their slump last week, losing to Big South opponents Coastal Carolina and Campbell. Both games were tightly-contested, but the Lancers couldn’t pull out the wins. They now have a difficult home stand against three of the top teams in the conference: ...

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Slumping Lancers Look to Bounce Back

By Nick Conigliaro | January 30

The Longwood Women’s Basketball team has had a surprisingly positive season to date but hit a bit of a rough patch last week, losing two straight games to Big South opponents High Point and Liberty. The Lancers also lost scoring leader Crystal Smith during the High Point game. The team has conference ...

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LU Women First in Conference as Hot Streak Continues

By Eric Hobeck | January 23

Seven wins in the 2010-11 season. Seven wins in the 2011-12 sea- son. So far in the 2012-13 season, the Longwood women’s basketball team has nine wins, and the season isn’t even halfway done yet. Bill Reinson’s squad has won three games in a row and six games out of seven, starting 6-1 in their ...

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Austin Reacts to Men’s and Women’s Basketball Results to Date

By Eric Hobeck | January 23

With the Longwood men’s and women’s basketball teams seemingly going in different directions, eighth-year Director of Athletics Troy Austin spoke out last week on both teams’ respective recent trends.  The women are currently first in the Big South at 9-9 (6-1 Big South) ahead of tomorrow’s ...

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