GAME NOTES: Longwood
11/14/2010 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Nov. 14, 2010
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NACOGDOCHES, Texas -
VITALS
Longwood at Stephen F. Austin
Monday, Nov. 15, 2010 • 7:00 p.m. (CST)
Johnson Coliseum (7,200) • Nacogdoches, Texas
Radio: KTBQ 107.7 FM • TV: None • Online: SFA All-Access
Lumberjacks
Record: 1-0
Last 5/Streak: 4-1/W-1
Coach: Danny Kaspar
Career: 401-165
At SFA: 182-113
SID: Brian Ross
E-mail: rossbrian@sfasu.edu
Web: sfajacks.com
Lancers
Record: 0-1
Last 5/Streak: 2-3/L-2
Coach: Mike Gillian
Career: 63-150
At LU: 63-150
SID: Greg Prouty
E-mail: proutygd@longwood.edu
Web: longwoodlancers.com
GAME INFORMATION
LONGWOOD: The Stephen F. Austin Lumberjacks will try to pick up their second straight win Monday night when they host Longwood. SFA is coming off a blowout victory over Howard Payne Friday night in the season opener. The Lumberjacks (1-0) have now won 21 of their last 22 home non-conference games. Longwood comes into the contest with an 0-1 record after opening the season with a loss at No. 7 Kansas on Friday.
LAST GAME: Five Lumberjacks reached double figures in scoring as SFA rolled to a 114-49 win over Howard Payne on Friday. SFA shot 49 percent from the field while holdin the Yellow Jackets to a 27-percent effort and forcing 21 turnovers. Led by a career-high 27 points from junior center Jereal Scott, SFA outscored Howard Payne, 46-12, in the paint. SFA also outrebounded the Yellow Jackets, 63-34.
THE LANCERS: Monday's meeting is the second of 17 road games totaling more than 17,000 miles of travel for Longwood this season. The Lancers opened the year with a 113-75 defeat at the hands of Kansas. Longwood shot the ball well enough, hitting 45 percent from the field, but committed 24 turnovers leading to 36 Kansas points. Center Antwan Carter went 10-of-16 from the floor to lead Longwood with 22 points. He also pulled in a team-high eight rebounds. Carter is one of eight returning lettermen from 2009-10.
vs. LONGWOOD: SFA is 1-0 against the Lancers. Monday's game is a return match from last year's meeting in Farmville, Va. The Lumberjacks took a 73-69 win in that contest.
COVERAGE: Monday's game will be broadcast live on KTBQ 107.7 FM. Rob Meyers has the call. The contest will be streamed live online at SFAJacks.com. Live stats will be available via GameTracker.
UP NEXT: SFA will take to the road for the first time this season when the Lumberjacks travel to take on Texas Tech Friday night. The contest against the Red Raiders is scheduled for a 7 p.m. start in Lubbock, Texas. The Lumberjacks will follow that game with a road match-up against Louisiana-Monroe on Nov. 23.
NEWS AND NOTES
HIGH-SCORING: The 114 points SFA scored against Howard Payne marks the highest offensive output by a Lumberjack team in Danny Kaspar's 10-plus seasons as head coach. It's just the eighth time in Kaspar's tenure for the 'Jacks to break into triple-digits. The last time an SFA team scored more than 114 points was in the 1996-97 home opener when Derek Allister's squad beat Schreiner College, 138-69. Only that total and the 126 points SFA put up against Texas Wesleyan in the 1994-95 campaign top the Lumberjacks' output against Howard Payne in SFA's history at the Division I level.
MARGINAL: The 65-point margin of victory in SFA's 114-49 win over Howard Payne is the widest margin of Danny Kaspar's tenure and the biggest point spread for the 'Jacks since a 138-69 win over Schreiner College in 1994-95.
CENTER OF THE SCORING: Junior center Jereal Scott put up a career-high 27 points in the season opener against Howard Payne. That's the most points scored by a Lumberjack since Matt Kingsley -- Scott's predecessor at the five spot -- scored 29 in a win at Texas A&M-Corpus Christi during the 2007-08 season.
PARTY OF FIVE: Five Lumberjacks -- Jereal Scott, Jordan Glynn, Eddie Williams, Amos Olatayo and Zac Downing -- reached double figures in scoring in SFA's win over Howard Payne. That feat has been achieved 16 times in Danny Kaspar's tenure as head coach. The 'Jacks put five in double figures only three times last season.
DOUBLING UP: Both Jordan Glynn and Jereal Scott had double-doubles against Howard Payne (Glynn 15p, 14r; Scott 27p, 10r). That happened on three occasions last season. Glynn and Scott shared two double-double games, while Eddie Williams and Glynn shared one.
FRESH PERSPECTIVE: Freshman Amos Olatayo came off the bench for 10 points in SFA's win over Howard Payne. That marks the first time since the 2005-06 season for a Lumberjack freshman to reach double figures in the season opener. Josh Alexander was the last SFA rookie to achieve the feat, scoring 10 points in a road win over Tulsa.
BELOW FIFTY: SFA held Howard Payne to 49 points in the season opener. That marks the 43rd time in 10-plus seasons under Danny Kaspar for the Lumberjacks to hold an opponent to 50 points or fewer.
SEASON OPENERS: SFA is now 7-4 in season-opening games under head coach Danny Kaspar. The Lumberjacks have compiled a 12-13 record in season openers as a Division I program (since 1986-87 season). Under Kaspar, the Lumberjacks are 6-0 when opening the season at home and 11-6 in home season openers overall as a Division I program. SFA is 1-4 under Kaspar when opening on the road and is just 1-7, in all, as a Division I program when playing the season opener on the road. The Lumberjacks' only season-opening road win in the last 23 seasons was an 82-72 verdict at Tulsa to start the 2005-06 campaign.
HOME OPENER: SFA knocked off Howard Payne, 114-49, in the 2010-11 home opener. Head coach Danny Kaspar's teams are a perfect 11-0 in home openers at SFA. The last time an SFA team failed to win its home opener was a 67-55 loss to Texas A&M in 1998.
SAFE AT HOME: In nine-plus seasons under head coach Danny Kaspar, the Lumberjacks have compiled a 115-29 (.799) record in the William R. Johnson Coliseum. SFA is 311-120 (.722) all-time in the Coliseum. SFA finished with a 13-2 record in home games last season, marking the fifth straight campaign and the seventh time in eight years for the Lumberjacks to post double-digit wins at home.
EXPERIENCE: SFA has five returning players -- including four starters -- from last season. But with three of the five being junior college transfers in their second year with the Lumberjacks, SFA has only eight years of Division I basketball experience on the 2010-11 roster. That figure is tied for the 10th-fewest years of D-I experience in the nation. Eastern Washington has the fewest combined years of collegiate experience in the nation at four.
FRESH FACES: SFA has eight newcomers -- including transfer Mark Walton, who is redshirting -- on the roster for the 2010-11 season. That figure is tied for the fifth-highest number of first-year players during Danny Kaspar's tenure as head coach.
TOP GUNS: SFA's leading scorers last season were Eddie Williams (13.3 ppg) and Jereal Scott (12.8 ppg). When both players broke double figures in scoring, the Lumberjacks went 15-4. SFA's only losses when both Williams and Scott scored more than 10 points came against Texas Tech, Sam Houston State, Southeastern Louisiana and UTSA.
STEADY EDDIE: A back injury forced guard Eddie Williams to miss SFA's game against Texas College last season. That marked the first time in his career for Williams to miss action. He had played in all 76 games -- including 32 in each of his first two seasons -- coming into the contest against the Steers. He has now played in 96 total games with 55 starting appearances as a Lumberjack.
MILESTONE WIN: With the Lumberjacks' 60-53 win over A&M-Corpus Christi in the 2009-10 Southland Tournament semifinals, head coach Danny Kaspar earned his 400th career win.
SITTIN' ON 20: With its victory against A&M-Corpus last year, SFA broke the 20-win barrier for the third consecutive season and the fifth time in Danny Kaspar's 10 years as head coach. Prior to Kaspar's tenure, the only 20-win season in the program's history at the Division I level was the 22-8 record put up by the 'Jacks in the 1986-87 campaign, the program's first as a D-I team.
FAST START: SFA entered Southland Conference play with double figures in the win column last season for just the second time in the program's Division I tenure. The Lumberjacks' only other 10-win pre-conference slate came in 2007-08, when they went 12-2 before opening league play.
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