[Sly Fox]

[bozlady]

3:19 left--another time out. Coastal beat VMI today. LU winning tonight 85-76.

Maybe those twins weren't able to pull a "swithcheroonie" tonight

[olldflame]

In the last 2 games Jesse has 19 points, 20 rebounds, 16 assists and ZERO TURNOVERS.

[Rooster Cogburn]

AMAZING

[coastalalum]

3:19 left--another time out. Coastal beat VMI today. LU winning tonight 85-76.

Maybe those twins weren't able to pull a "swithcheroonie" tonight

or maybe it was joe harris's 33 points and 22 boards ...

[Sly Fox]

Harris concerns me again Monday night. Strong cats like Joe can give us fits. And obviously they will be feeling confident after today's upset of the 'Roos.

[redhedtchr]

Have you seen where Stephon Curry rolled his ankle over in tonight's game? On crutches, having x-rays in the AM. Good thing we have ODU in the Bracketbuster. . .been tough to have a Curry Bros. duel without one of the Curry boys!

Thanks for all the great stats and updates. We were at the LU Hockey game and didn't get to hear the game. I can always count on ya'll to keep me up to date!!!

[sweetnahmah1]

when was our last 20 win season?

[Cider Jim]

when was our last 20 win season?

A dozen years ago--when our LU freshman class was in 1st grade--1997.

From Lang's article:

If the Flames win one of their final four games, they’ll join the 1991-92 and 1996-97 teams as the only 20-game winners in LU’s Division I history.

http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/sports/c ... own/13477/

[WinthropEagleFan]

Thanks for the insights, WEF. Could you venture a guess on attendance?

Curry jumper (13), 30-22 LU

850 or so.

Boxscore had attendance at 859...I guess I forgot to count one row..

[TIMSCAR20]

when was our last 20 win season?

Jeff Meyer's last season. RD was top assistant and Paul Nazigian and Tim Scarborough were the other 2 assistants. We were really good that year and if we hadn't blown an 11 point second half lead to 4th seed Charleston Southern, we would have gone down as the best LU team in history so far...

Aluma
Sorensen
White
Jackson
Boo Graham

Bench
Gabe Caldwell
Mark Reed
Che Lugo
Jay Boykin

Jason Allison from VMI was on that team and actually did more coaching than I did that season

[TIMSCAR20]

In fact we were the only team that won 23 games and not get any post season play in the nation. We thought we deserved an NIT bid but the comittee didn't see it that way.

[El Scorcho]

We thought we deserved an NIT bid but the comittee didn't see it that way.

Shocking.

[olldflame]

It's not insignificant that we haven't had a 20 win season since. BSC tourney run in 2004 notwithstanding, IMHO this program is just now recovering from what happened between 97 and 98.

[Sly Fox]

Newspaper Accounts ...

LU wins by refusing to back down

By Chris Lang
Sports writer
Published: February 15, 2009

NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. — Charleston Southern’s punch was swift, 11 points in a minute and 10 seconds that erased a deficit and sent a signal that the Buccaneers weren’t ready to let Liberty run away with Saturday’s game at the CSU Field House.

The counter-punch, though, was devastating, four straight 3-pointers that sent another signal, that this wasn’t the same young Flames team that would wilt at the first sign of adversity on the road. Instead, Liberty rose to the challenge, made a couple of critical defensive stops and took control. The Flames’ 95-80 victory gave coach Ritchie McKay his 200th career win, put Liberty on the brink of its first 20-win season in more than a decade, and kept Liberty in the hunt for the conference’s regular-season title.

Click Here for Full Story

Flames burn Bucs with hot shooting

By David Shelton
Special to The Post and Courier
Sunday, February 15, 2009


Liberty played as if the CSU Fieldhouse was its home court, scorching the nets and connecting on 15 3-pointers to beat Charleston Southern, 95-80, in Big South Conference basketball action on Saturday night.

Freshman Seth Curry led Liberty (19-8, 10-5 Big South) with 28 points. Anthony Smith added 24 points, including six 3-pointers and junior Kyle Ohman scored 23 points, hitting five 3-pointers.

"They're a tough team to guard and it shows the value of having so many scorers on the floor at one time," said CSU head coach Barclay Radebaugh. "I thought our effort was tremendous, but we're down to eight guys and four of those are post players. We basically had four guards chasing those guys around all night and we just couldn't keep up."

Click Here for Full Story

[jcmanson]

Seth Curry is already the school's leading scorer among freshman. Jesse needs 14 assists to become LU's all time leading assist man as a freshman. Talk about a great young backcourt with a very bright future!

[olldflame]

I think somebody asked about the last time we had 3 20 point scorers in a game. It was this year at UVA. Same 3.

[jcmanson]

I think somebody asked about the last time we had 3 20 point scorers in a game. It was this year at UVA. Same 3.

Yeah that was me. I realized that after the game last night.