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RADFORD, Va. -- Radford continues a three-game homestand on Thursday night, when the Highlanders host Charleston Southern in a 7 p.m. contest at the Dedmon Center.

In its past five games, Radford (13-10, 9-4 Big South) has been spreading out the production, with five players scoring in double figures in four of the last five outings, including a 77-63 win over High Point on Sunday. Radford is 2-2 in the four games where five scorers have hit the double-figure mark.

This season, five Highlanders have been in double figures five times (3-2 record), and four or more scorers have reached the 10-point plateau nine times in 2009-10 (7-2).

Radford's balanced scoring effort against the Panthers was led by freshman Blake Smith (Charlotte, N.C./United Faith Christian), who scored 15 points on 5-for-10 shooting. Smith was joined by 12-point efforts from Art Parakhouski (Minsk, Belarus), Laz Trifunovic (Belgrade, Serbia), and freshman Gorkem Sonmez (Istanbul, Turkey). Joey Lynch-Flohr (Fairfax, Va./Fairfax) chipped in with 10 points.

Parakhouski, who added 17 rebounds, recorded his 19th double-double of the season.

The Highlanders have also started to heat up from the 3-point line – Radford is shooting 14-for-24 (58.3 percent) over its last two games, including a 5-for-8 afternoon against High Point. In the four contests prior to its game at VMI (Feb. 2), Radford was 24 of 89 from behind the arc (26.9 percent).

Sunday's win put the Highlanders into a tie for second place in the Big South conference standings with Winthrop, two games behind first-place Coastal Carolina (11-2).

Charleston Southern (11-12, 6-7) is 1-4 since its last meeting with Radford, a 70-55 win over the Highlanders on Jan. 16. In the win, Jamarco Warren scored 18 of his game-high 21 points in the second half to lead the Buccaneers to the home win.

Following a back and forth start to the second half, the Buccaneers grabbed control of the contest with a 21-7 run to push their lead to double figures, where it stayed the rest of the way.

Charleston Southern, which shot 53.3 percent (8-for-15) from 3-point range and missed just one of its 17 tries from the free throw line, held the Highlanders to 32.8 percent (21-for-64) from the floor and 5 of 24 from deep.

The Highlanders have wins in seven of the last ten series meetings with the Buccaneers, and control the all-time series 39-20.