Now he's hoping to help Longwood upset Houston. ... But he walked in to a basketball gym near the end of elementary school, and the middle school coach knew after about one second.

When Longwood basketball coach Griff Aldrich looks at his team’s record-setting start, he sees work to do. “Our record kind of glosses over the fact that we’re still a very new and green and ...

A Roanoke native, Thomas joined the Longwood men’s basketball team in 2020 as the director of recruiting and player development and was promoted to assistant coach the next year.

Honestly, we (just) need to play the way Longwood basketball is played." The odds are stacked against Longwood. Still, Longwood, with three players from Houston, is going to give it its best shot.