[thesportscritic]

the game was available online from accselect which was the way i saw this game.

AND YOU DIDNT TELL US!!!???!!!

if you went to the LU athletic website there was a link for the video and you would have to pay 5.95 to watch the game.

[treyjman24]

Biy the whole football thing must have me out of it. Where was Carter?

I know he has a bruised shin, but I don't know if thats why he DNP

He may be out for the year, but dont quote me on that

He played a little right before the end of the 1st half......

[Schfourteenteen]

oh 6 bucks? nah

[Baldspot]

"Where do we go from here"......to Virginia.

[rjhenz]

Great win for the Flames, I've should of known the year after I graduate the flames get some nice young talent. Things are looking good for the future!

[horrez]

Congrats on the win tonight!

[heartless]

ok UNCA, CLEMSON, and MASON ..... BRING IT ON!!!!!

I was at the Mason game tonight and let me tell you, if we keep it up with the way we played against UVA, then we are gonna beat Mason and any other team that comes our way in the regular season.

[LUconn]

Just got back. That was freaking awesome. I thought we were gonna blow it so many times. Anthony is our answer down low. He's obviously not backing people down, but he doesn't need to. He can get around them.

[flamesbball84]

Biy the whole football thing must have me out of it. Where was Carter?

more like where was the bench? one guy got 13 minutes and the rest basically nothing...

[LUconn]

Game's been over for almost 2 hours. Where are the haters at tonight?

[scuzdriver]

Nice job boys! When your hot your hot.

[pbow]

Dickie V just mentioned the Liberty upset on ESPN during the Kansas-Cuse game

[mrmacphisto]

Definitely nice to see a win against an ACC opponent. Well done, guys.

[Elicoolbreeze]

Well folks the saying goes "live by the three, die by the three." A week ago we died by it, today we lived by it. I am glad though that we drove our way into the paint area to score some points. I believe it was Drake last year that played this same style of offense (open post offense where one guy drives to the basket and can kick it out to any of the other four players for a 3 pointer) and it worked as they went to the NCAA Tourney last year.

I do have concerns like we need to rebound better and we need scoring from the bench. I believe the bench scoring will come in time but I am not so sure about the rebounding. Last year I remember rebounding to be a problem every now and then but this year is looking worse and it is exacerbated by playing zone defense. Unless we shoot the ball above 50% from the field we may fall on the wrong side of some very lopsided games. I hope Ritchie McKay is working on this area as we need to somehow even the rebounding war or at least be close.

In listening to Coach McKay in the post game show he stated that the game against UNCA was an anomaly. He knew this team was much better than that showing. The team has continued to work hard in practice and the chemistry is coming together quite nicely. McKay definitly left me with the impression that this won't be the last good win we shall see. Looking forward to this weekend.

[Sly Fox]

Recap from our SIDs ...

Curry, Ohman and Smith Help LU Top Virginia


Seth Curry tallied a career-high 26 points in Liberty's victory at Virginia on Tuesday.

November 25, 2008
Charlottesville, Va.

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Seth Curry and Kyle Ohman each tallied a career-high 26 points, helping the Liberty Flames (2-1, 0-1 BSC) defeat the Virginia Cavaliers (3-1, 0-0 ACC) on Tuesday night, 86-82, inside John Paul Jones Arena.

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[Sly Fox]

The UVa perspective ...

Cavaliers Fall to Liberty 86-82

Courtesy: Associated Press
Release: 11/25/2008


Sammy Zeglinski
Courtesy: Jim Daves/UVa Media Relations

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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) - Kyle Ohman and Seth Curry scored 26 points each to help Liberty knock off Virginia 86-82 on Tuesday night.

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[Rooster Cogburn]

I love that Jesse had 8 assists and 0 Turnovers. If he can play like that it frees Seth up to get twenty something every night!

[treyjman24]

From a UVA board after LU beat them in basketball:

http://www.thesabre.com/message_board/b ... 040773.php

Liberty=Barely a school...common, they have a dinosaur bone which they claim is only 6000 years old...I guess their BBall
program must be better than their science dept


some people i guess just cant take a lose.....

[kingaling42]

I love that Jesse had 8 assists and 0 Turnovers. If he can play like that it frees Seth up to get twenty something every night!

Congrats on the big win tonight!! Looks like Jesse Sanders decided to be the guy to step up & sacrifice his scoring for the betterment of your team & try to replace TJ.. Interesting to see 4 guys with 37+ minutes each- that may be tough to do night in & night out but it obviously was the best matchup against UVA.. Didn't see the game as I was watching UNCA at Wofford but from the numbers perspective- 21 team assists vs 8 against us is a dramatic improvement & probably resulted in better shot selection (although you guys simply missed a ton of open ooks against us)- 50% shooting from 3, 56% total more than made up from the huge rebounding mismatch they had..

Good to see you guys not down on the team after this game vs last week.. As I mentioned in another post- LU is young (like us!) and you have to give them some time to gel & continue to develop- maybe the best thing you did was get blown out by us on national TV- consequently it may have been the worst for us as we've dropped our last 2 including a 5 point road loss at Wofford this evening.. Again good game tonight!

[Hold My Own]

How about "LiL Curry" WOW



This kid is going to be so much fun to watch over the years

[Chris Lang]

http://www.newsadvance.com/lna/sports/c ... uva/10996/

Some thoughts regarding both teams:

First Liberty ...

1. There was a play in the second half where I felt like the Flames started to "get it." Zeglinski gets a steal, tries a spin move to break free and get the fast break started. Austin Smith sells out, dives to tip the ball away, and the Flames regain possession. That didn't happen last week.

2. McKay said he didn't berate his team, but he did simplify things a bit this week and stressed getting back to basics.

3. Kyle Ohman went back to being Kyle Ohman. He moved around, got open shots and took opportunities to drive when they presented themselves. He didn't force anything. That's when he's at his best.

4. McMasters has some sort of foot injury, x-rays were negative, they'll know more later in the week.

5. Baker dressed, didn't play. He told me it's a bone bruise in his left foot and that it's quite painful and annoying.

6. This is not a signature Virginia team, but considering where Liberty was a week ago, it's a signature victory to go on the road and beat an ACC team that had been finding ways to win games.

Now Virginia ...

1. I think Zeglinski is going to be a nice player for the Cavs. Deceptively athletic, a little bouncier than you'd expect. Makes good decisions and can hit the 3 ball. The shot he hit with about 15 seconds left was from 27 feet out with three LU players in his face. The kid has some stones. He took the loss pretty hard and looked upset during the postgame interview session.

2. Virginia is not sound defensively. Nothing against Kyle, but there's no way he should be able to beat ACC players with head fakes the amount of times he did tonight. And on Sanders' one bucket, the whole Cavalier defense fell asleep. The ol' Linda Rondstadt defense, as a coaching friend of mine used to call it. ... "The Blue Bayou .. or blew by you."

3. Virginia didn't respond well at all to Liberty's zone. The Cavs tried to play the game from 15 feet and out. They needed to fight to get Mike Scott the ball, and he admitted he didn't work hard enough to get touches.

4. Mustapha Farrakhan wouldn't start at any Big South school. I'm not sure why Leitao keeps trotting him out there.

5. UVa didn't go big because Soroye, Sene and Brandenburg are all very limited offensively, and they'd be defensive liabilities trying to defend Liberty's perimeter guys.

6. As I said after the Liberty-UNCA game ... "take a deep breath, it's one game." Virginia's young. I don't think they'll win more than five or six ACC games. Then again, I didn't think VT would do much in league last year and they surprised me.

Reporters from Richmond and Roanoke both questioned how the heck a kid like Seth Curry couldn't get a look from an ACC school.

[Cider Jim]

Here's a stat that surprised me, considering our tallest starter was Brolin at 6'6":

POINTS IN PAINT 1 2 - Tot
Liberty................. 12 18 - 30
Virginia................ 14 12 - 26

[Hold My Own]

I dont claim to be a coach, but if I was UVa's coach the ball would go through Scott's hands every possession...he can kick it out if they double but man I really think they would have beat us if they would have been more physical


also I heard Tyler may be out till the first of the year...any truth to that?

[coolhandluke]

I dont claim to be a coach, but if I was UVa's coach the ball would go through Scott's hands every possession...he can kick it out if they double but man I really think they would have beat us if they would have been more physical


also I heard Tyler may be out till the first of the year...any truth to that?

He is supposedly going to play against Coker Friday.

[Hold My Own]

Great news...I didnt hear about him being any worse but then I asked a parent tonight and he told me that...so I got nervous