MBB Game Day: Bradley

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Liberty (5-1) and Bradley (3-4) will square off in the third place game of the ESPN Events Invitational. Both teams are 1-1 on the week. The Flames fell 72-69 to Towson in Tuesday's semifinals, their first loss of the year. The Braves lost 87-77 to UC San Diego.
Kaden Metheny paced four Flames in double figures with 16 points and four threes. JJ Harper (14 points, seven rebounds), Brett Decker Jr. (13 points, five rebounds) and Zach Cleveland (12 points, eight rebounds, seven assists) also reached double figures.
Metheny (973 points at Liberty) is 27 points from 1,000 for his Flames career. He has exactly 1,600 career points in his six-year college career.
This will be the second all-time meeting between the Flames and Braves. Liberty won the only other meeting by a 55-44 score in the third place game of the 2022 Cancun Challenge.
Decker Jr. (19.3 ppg) leads the team in scoring and is the only Flame to score in double figures in every game. The sophomore has 26 threes and has connected on 55.3 percent from long range.
Cleveland is averaging 11.3 ppg, 9.0 rpg and 7.7 apg through six games.
The Flames have shot over 50 percent in five of six games and are shooting 55.3 percent on the year.
Liberty is 8-8 all-time playing on Nov. 26. In 2020, the Flames bested Missisippi State 84-73 in the third place game of the Space Coast Challenge.

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