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RADFORD, Va. -- For the first time in nearly a month, Radford returns to the Dedmon Center court when the Highlanders host Roanoke College on Sunday at 4 p.m.

Radford (4-3) completed a five-game road trip, the program's longest since the 2003-04 season, with a 99-64 loss at No. 1 Kansas on Wednesday in the first meeting for the Highlanders with the nation's top-ranked team.

Roanoke (4-2) is the second Old Dominion Athletic Conference opponent for the Highlanders this season. The Maroons haven't played since last Saturday (Dec. 5) when they picked up a 95-88 home win over Lynchburg, a team the Highlanders played in their last game at the Dedmon Center on Nov. 17.

A program with better than 1,200 wins to its credit, Roanoke leads the all-time series with Radford 2-1. The two teams haven't met since Jan. 18, 1978, an 89-53 win for the Maroons in Salem.

After a slow start offensively on Wednesday night, Radford found its rhythm in the second half against Kansas by shooting 54 percent, thanks in part to Art Parakhouski's (Minsk, Belarus) 21 second-half points on 8-of-10 shooting. But the Jayhawks' 36-18 halftime lead and 63 percent second half shooting were too much to overcome in the two clubs first-ever meeting.

In a game marked by a battle of two of the nation's top-performing centers in Parakhouski and preseason All-American Cole Aldrich of Kansas, Joey Lynch-Flohr (Fairfax, Va./Fairfax) led all scorers with a career-high 26 points on 9-of-14 shooting including 13 of Radford's 18 first half points.

For Lynch-Flohr, Wednesday was his seventh career 20-point effort. Parakhouski's second-half performance landed him a ninth-straight double-double and the fifth of his career against a major-conference opponent.

Sunday's game begins a stretch where Radford plays five of its next seven games at home, a string of home games interrupted by single-game trips to James Madison (Dec. 19) and 2009 Final Four participant Louisville (Dec. 27). The Highlanders are back at the Dedmon Center on Dec. 22 against William & Mary.