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Women's Hoops Heads to Charleston Wednesday
▪ Longwood leads the all-time series with Charleston Southern, which dates to 2005-06, 17-13, and 7-5 in Charleston. The teams split last season's meetings, each winning on the road. Longwood has won nine of the previous 11 games against CSU overall.
▪ With Saturday's victory over Presbyterian to improve to 10-4, the Lancers reached double-digit wins in the fewest amount of games in their Division I history. In 2002-03, Division II Longwood accomplished the feat in 13 games, finishing the season 27-5 overall.
▪ Longwood is now one of just 11 teams in Division I women's basketball to use the same starting lineup in all of its games so far this season. The others are: Cornell, Eastern Michigan, Fort Wayne, La Salle, North Dakota State, Northwestern State, Oklahoma, Rice, UC Davis and Youngstown State. Of that group, only Cornell (5-8) is below .500.
Sra and the Charleston Southern Buccaneers host conference foe Longwood
Longwood Lancers (10-4, 1-0 Big South) at Charleston Southern Buccaneers (4-11, 2-0 Big South)
BOTTOM LINE: Big South foes Charleston Southern and Longwood face off on Wednesday.
The Buccaneers have gone 3-4 in home games. Charleston Southern has a 1-1 record in games decided by 3 points or fewer.
The Lancers are 1-0 in Big South play. Longwood averages 16.3 turnovers per game and is 9-1 when winning the turnover battle.
Charleston Southern averages 9.1 made 3-pointers per game, 3.9 more made shots than the 5.2 per game Longwood allows. Longwood averages 6.7 more points per game (80.4) than Charleston Southern allows to opponents (73.7).
The matchup Wednesday is the first meeting this season for the two teams in conference play.
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Live: Evacuation warning issued for fire in Victoria's north as heatwave sweeps southern Australia
Southern Australia is enduring its most intense heatwave in years, with temperatures set to soar from today until the weekend.
There is an evacuation warning for a blaze in Victoria's north, and firefighters in South Australia are also bracing for challenging conditions.
Some areas are expecting consecutive days of temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius.
ABC Emergency will broadcast regular warnings on ABC Radio. You can find more information, including a map of all the warnings, here.
A spokesperson for the State Control Centre says flames at a fire in Tabilk in central Victoria are reaching approximately two metres high.
Firefighters responded to the grass and scrub fire about 2.22pm today which has burned approximately 10 hectares.
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