[Rooster Cogburn]

Can't wait to be in the Vines Thursday night!

First home game with all of the students back. Hopefully we get a good crowd.

My whole family of 6 will be there.

[olldflame]

Jesse finished with 16 points 6 rebounds and 6 assists. Evan with 16 also on 7-11 from the floor. Carter with 9, 4 boards and 3 blocks.

Parakhauski was pretty much the whole show for them with 26 and 15. Only 3 rebounds in the second half though.

[olldflame]

Not only were we missing Kyle, Burrus only played 9 minutes with foul trouble. Amazing win.

[flameshaw]

Great win tonight by the guys and the coaching staff. Didn't think, we really had any chance to win this one.

[Rooster Cogburn]

Is anyone else surprised that Lynch Floor and the other Big guy were largly ineffective?

[bozlady]

woohoo!!

[flamesfilmguy]

there could be as many as 5 5-4 teams after tonight. VMI taking it to HPU right now.

[olldflame]

Speaking of upsets. HP is trailing VMI 72-61 with 12:00 to play. Go figure.

(Of course, we all know VMI can fritter that away in no time)

[Rooster Cogburn]

OH yea, and can you say 2 game winning streak in the Deadman Gym. Yea!

[olldflame]

OH yea, and can you say 2 game winning streak in the Deadman Gym. Yea!

Yes. I did about 45 minutes ago.

[Rooster Cogburn]

OH yea, and can you say 2 game winning streak in the Deadman Gym. Yea!

Yes. I did about 45 minutes ago.

[LUnpretty11]

I think this is the happiest all of us have been about LU Men's basketball all season. It's great getting a win like this, and the confidence that has to be built in the guys, especially Jesse, Evan, and Big Mac has got to be huge! Awesome win!

[olldflame]

The Big South now has a 5 way tie for third at 5-4.

[kdinva]

Speaking of upsets. HP is trailing VMI 72-61 with 12:00 to play. Go figure.

(Of course, we all know VMI can fritter that away in no time)

We just about did.........let HPU get within 2, but Kenon was 6-6 from the line the final 17 seconds. We were up 19 at the 15:40 mark, we shot 1-12 from three in the 2nd half

Great win for LU!!!! Hey, we got Radford fat-headed for you all after Thursday's game, and y'all got High Point fat-headed for us as well

WOW, five teams at 5-4.........three of those will be on the road March 2nd (I hope we are, and not playing golf).

Should be a great game and atmosphere at the Vines on Thursday.

[jcmanson]

Man, Im almost speechless. Amazing win. Jesse was amazing. Evan was clutch. I've been impressed with JA lately though. He's become much more than just a jump shooter. Konan played well and you could tell he wasn't afraid of their "big 3." And I'm trying not to get too excited with Carter He was better than Art on numerous possessions. Cannot say enough about his performance tonight.

And Coach Layer had a terrific game plan.

[ToTheLeft]

Big Time win. Jesse with big minutes, Evan with an awesome game, David Minaya (still my boy) giving some good minutes on D against the bigs, Carter showing up big, too. Great game boys.

Some numbers that stand out...

7/11, 16 pts., 3 ast., 3 reb. for Evan
5/8, 15 pts., 6 reb, 6 ast. for Jesse
9 pts, 4 reb, 3 blocks for CMac

9/31 from Johnson, Smith, and Trifunovic.

[SuperJon]

One of the things that doesn't show up in Carter's stat line is the amount of balls that he tipped to other players. There were rebounds and steals where he couldn't get it himself but he deflected it to a teammate who got credit for it.

[olldflame]

The SIDs have checked in with their take on the game.

http://www.libertyflames.com/index.cfm? ... 0&TeamID=6

[olldflame]

Paging "BeatYouToIt"

Got any hate for Jesse Sanders tonight?

[RUBaseball33]

Congrats to LU for a well deserved win. You brought your "A" game and we brought nothing. Our perimeter game is our albatross and it was in evidence tonight. LU played a scrappy, smart intense game and my RU hats off to your performance.

It was one game, though, and I do think and believe our overall talent will show up and take the conference.


We'll see you later at Vines...

[BJWilliams]

Im surprised our friends checkmate and intehbeginning (and all their other friends or aliases) werent chiming in the last few games...coudl have really laid it to em after a performance like tonight

[Stevev]

You guys are good as evidenced by some of the results I have seen in games earlier this year but you are somewhat inconsistent. We benefited from your poor shooting for sure

[RUBaseball33]

Inconsistant is an understatement. We have one senior point guard (Amir Johnson) who seems to have forgotten how to shoot and his backups are freshman who are promising... very promising but are still freshman.

They need to mature quickly.

[Cider Jim]

Lang showing McMasters some love:

LU’s McMasters stymies Radford’s Parakhouski
By Chris Lang | Sports writer
RADFORD — Many adjectives have been used to describe Liberty freshman center Carter McMasters. Agile. Athletic. Eccentric.

Physical? Not really. That’s been the knock on the 6-foot-11 McMasters, his seeming unwillingness to mix it up in the low post on a consistent basis. But with Liberty’s most physical presence — Antwan Burrus — saddled with four fouls Saturday night, McMaster had no choice but to add physical to the list. Radford center Art Parakhouski, a near shoo-in to make one of the three All-American teams when the season ends, was threatening to take over a surprisingly competitive game.

McMasters liked the challenge. He gave up 50 pounds to the big Belarusian, but he didn’t back down, fronting him, limiting his touches and stunting Radford’s chance to get back into the game. Liberty’s stunning 60-55 victory at the Dedmon Center was all about defense and the Flames’ ability to dictate how the game was played.

And McMasters played a huge role. “He grew up,” Flames coach Dale Layer said.

“When (Burrus) came out with two fouls, I was like, ‘Hey, this is the moment you’ve been waiting all year for,’” McMasters said. “It’s time to get going.”

http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/sports/ ... ski/23452/

And to gauge how big of a win this was, read Lang's PREGAME comments on his blog: http://www.mynewsadvance.com/index.php/ ... _pre-game/

[Chris Lang]

I thought I made some logical points/arguments in that pregame post. Just goes to show you why sports is fun ... you never know what will happen on a given night.