CONWAY, S.C. – Junior captain Tristan Carey/Colonial Beach scored a game-high 21 points, freshmen Lucas Woodhouse/Greenlawn, New York and Karl Ziegler/Annandale each scored 17 points, a career-high for Ziegler off the bench, and junior captain David Robinson/Chesterfield had 15 points to lead Longwood University to an 87-72 first-round victory past two-time defending champion UNC Asheville in the 2013 VisitMyrtleBeach.com Big South Men’s Basketball Championship Tuesday afternoon in Conway, South Carolina.  The Lancers (8-24), seeded No. 6 in the North Division, led the Bulldogs (16-16), seeded No. 3 in the South Division, 47-35 at halftime and made 25-26 free throws en route to the win in the program’s first-ever Division I post-season conference tournament.  Jeremy Atkinson scored 19 points and grabbed a game-high 11 rebounds to lead Asheville.  Longwood will play VMI, the No. 2 seed from the North, in a quarterfinal contest on Thursday, March 7 at 2 p.m. at the HTC Center on the campus of Coastal Carolina University in South Carolina.

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