{"id":78142,"date":"2025-08-12T22:00:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78142\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T22:00:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T22:00:07","slug":"lancers-to-face-jmu-pitt-wake-forest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/78142\/","title":{"rendered":"Lancers to face JMU, Pitt, Wake Forest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/longwood-basketball.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"longwood basketball\" width=\"555\" height=\"312\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/longwood-basketball.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a>Photo: Longwood Athletics<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"general-link\" href=\"https:\/\/longwoodlancers.com\/sports\/mens-basketball\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Longwood Basketball<\/a> has a new head coach, Ronnie Thomas, who is taking over for Griff Aldrich, now the right-hand man for Ryan Odom with the UVA Basketball program.<\/p>\n<p>Thomas and Longwood released the nonconference schedule for the Lancers for 2025-2026, with a couple guarantee games \u2013 at Pitt and Wake Forest \u2013 and an intriguing home game with JMU.<\/p>\n<p>JMU (18-12, NET: 156 in 2024-2025) will visit the Joan Perry Brock Center on Nov. 12 to face Longwood (15-14, NET: 210).<\/p>\n<p>The Lancers open with D3 Mary Baldwin (14-13 in 2024-2025) on Nov. 3.<\/p>\n<p>The game with MBU is one of three against D3 opponents (Pfeiffer, Averett) on the schedule.<\/p>\n<p>The game at Pitt (17-15, NET: 61) is Game 2, on Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p>The other game of note is the one in Winston-Salem at Wake Forest (21-11, NET: 69), which is set for Dec. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Longwood Basketball: 2025-2026 Nonconference Schedule<\/p>\n<p>Nov. 3: Mary Baldwin<br \/>\nNov. 7: at Pitt<br \/>\nNov. 12: James Madison<br \/>\nNov. 15: Binghamton<br \/>\nNov. 18: UMES<br \/>\nNov. 23: at Columbia<br \/>\nNov. 28-30: Siena, Maine, American (all at American)<br \/>\nDec. 3: Pfeiffer<br \/>\nDec. 6: at Morgan State<br \/>\nDec. 13: Delaware State<br \/>\nDec. 17: at Wake Forest<br \/>\nDec. 20: at North Carolina Central<br \/>\nDec. 28: Averett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo: Longwood Athletics Longwood Basketball has a new head coach, Ronnie Thomas, who is taking over for Griff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68],"tags":[402,55183,398,400,401,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-78142","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ncaa-basketball","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-longwood","10":"tag-ncaa","11":"tag-ncaa-basketball","12":"tag-ncaabasketball","13":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}