The 2023–24 Longwood Lancers men's basketball team represented

Longwood University Longwood University is a public university in Farmville, Virginia, United States. Founded in 1839 as Farmville Female Seminary and colloquially known as Longwood or Longwood College, it is the third-oldest public university in Virginia and one of ...

during the

2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 6, 2023. The regular season ended on March 17, 2024, with the 2024 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament beginning with the First Four on March 19 and ending with th ...

. The Lancers, led by sixth-year head coach

Griff Aldrich Scott Griffith Aldrich (born June 28, 1974) is an American college basketball coach and lawyer. He served as head coach of the Longwood Lancers men's basketball team from 2018 to 2025. Playing career Aldrich played at Hampden–Sydney under ...

, played their home games at the newly opened Joan Perry Brock Center in

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as members of the

Big South Conference The Big South Conference is a collegiate athletic conference affiliated with the NCAA's Division I. Originally a non-football conference, the Big South began sponsoring football in 2002 as part of the Football Championship Subdivision (FCS), ...

. They finished the season 21–14, 6–10 in Big South play to finish in a tie for fifth place. As the No. 5 seed in the Big South Tournament, they defeated Winthrop, High Point, and UNC Asheville to win the Big South tournament championship, as a result, they received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament for the second time in school history. As a No. 16 seed in the South region, they lost to

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in the First Round.

Previous season

The

Lancers A lancer was a type of cavalryman who fought with a lance. Lances were used for mounted warfare in Assyria as early as and subsequently by India, Egypt, China, Persia, Greece, and Rome. The weapon was widely used throughout Eurasia during the M ...

finished the 2022–23 season 20–12, 12–6 in Big South play to finish in a tie for second place. As the #2 seed in the Big South tournament, they were upset by #7 seed Campbell in the quarterfinals.

Roster

Schedule and results

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References

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Longwood Lancers men's basketball The Longwood Lancers men's basketball team is the Division I basketball team that represents Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. Since 2012, the team has competed in the Big South Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Associatio ...