MBB Game Day: Midway
12/15/2025 1:46:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Game Day Coverage
- Liberty vs. Midway (Liberty Arena)
- Tipoff: Tuesday at 6:02 p.m. ET
- TV:Â ESPN+
- Radio:Â LFSN Radio
- Live Stats
- Liberty (6-3) will play its final home game of the 2025 calendar year, hosting Midway (3-7).
- This is the first meeting between the Flames and Eagles. Midway is located in Midway, Ky. Liberty and Midway are separated by 412 miles. The Eagles are an NAIA program competing in the River States Conference for men's basketball.
- The Flames put their unbeaten 5-0 home record on the line. In five home triumphs, Liberty is averaging 93.2 ppg on 57.7 percent while yielding 59.2 ppg.
- Brett Decker Jr. (18.8 ppg) leads the team in scoring and is the national leader in three-pointers per game (4.44). He has 40 threes and has connected on 56.3 percent of his shots from deep, the best percentage in the nation.
- The Flames have shot over 50 percent in six of nine games and are shooting 52.7 percent on the year, the sixth-best percentage nationally.
Liberty is No. 2 in the country in effective field goal percentage (.631), No. 4 in three-point percentage (40.8), No. 6 in three-pointers per game (11.8) and No. 6 in assist/turnover ratio (1.93). - Zach Cleveland is No. 3 in the country in assists per game (8.0).
- Kaden Metheny has 999 points in his time as a Flame (two-plus seasons) and needs one point to become the 32nd player in program history with 1,000 points in a Liberty jersey. The guard has 1,626 points in his six-year collegiate career.
- Liberty is looking to bounce back from an 85-45 road loss at NC State, last Wednesday night.
- In addition to Metheny nearly eclipsing 1,000 points in his time with Liberty, Colin Porter (926 points) and Cleveland (910 points) are both less than 100 points from 1,000 in their respective careers.
- Cleveland ranks seventh in the country and first in CUSA in defensive rebounds per game (7.56). He is also first in the league and 49th nationally in rebounds per game (8.8) and tied for first in the conference in double-doubles (3).
- Cleveland's 72 total assists are most in CUSA and sixth most in the country.
- Decker Jr. is the only Flame to score in double figures in all nine games this season. He has been Liberty's leading scorer (or tied) five times and has five 20-plus point games.
- Decker Jr. is averaging a team-best 20.0 ppg on 61.9 percent shooting (26-of-42) from three-point range in five home games. Metheny (14.6 ppg), Porter (14.0 ppg), Harper (12.6 ppg) and Cleveland (10.0 ppg) all average in double figures as well.Â
- Cleveland (10.0 ppg, 9.4 rpg, 9.0 apg) in nearly averaging a triple-double in five home contests.
- The Flames' 183 victories since the start of the 2018-19 campaign is the eighth most nationally.Â
- Liberty finished 66th in the nation in the NCAA Men's Basketball NET Rankings and No. 64 in the KenPom rankings last year. The Flames are currently No. 112 in the KenPom in the early going and No. 144 in the NET.
- Liberty is 6-0 when outshooting its opponent.
- The Flames rank 33rd nationally and No. 2 in CUSA in fewest fouls per game (15.1).Â
- This will be Liberty's 12th all-time game on Dec. 16. The Flames are 5-6 all-time on this date but have won each of their last our games on this date. Two years ago, Liberty topped St. Andrew's 99-26. Liberty's 26 points allowed was tied for the second fewest given up in a game in school history. Zander Yates scored a career-high 23 points in the game, and Brody Peebles tallied 23 points. Liberty dished out 34 assists on 39 made field goals. The 34 assists were tied for the fourth most in a single game in school history.
- Each of Liberty's last four opponents they have played on this date have been non-Division I foes. The Flames have won those four games by an average of 60 points (240 points total).
- Liberty is No. 44 nationally and No. 3 in CUSA in points allowed per game (66.7).Â
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