The 2022–23 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 ...

in the

2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season The 2022–23 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 7, 2022. The regular season ended on March 12, 2023, with the 2023 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament beginning with the First Four on March 14 and ending with th ...

. The Lancers, led by fifth-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

Willett Hall Willett Hall (originally Lancer Hall) is an academic facility and previously served as a 1,807-seat multi-purpose arena in Farmville, Virginia. It was built in 1980 and was home to the Longwood University Lancers men's and women's basketball team ...

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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), ...

Previous season

The

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finished the 2021–22 season 26–6, 15–1 in Big South play, to win the Big South regular-season championship. They defeated North Carolina A&T,

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and Winthrop to win the Big South tournament championship. As a result, the Lancers received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament, the school's first-ever trip to the tournament, where they received the No. 14 seed in the South Region, where they would lose in the first round to

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Roster

Schedule and results

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References

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Longwood Lancers The Longwood Lancers are the College athletics in the United States, intercollegiate athletics teams that represent Longwood University, located in Farmville, Virginia. The University's 14 men’s and women’s teams compete at the National Col ...

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 ...