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MBB Game Day: Delaware
1/23/2026 2:16:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Game Day Coverage
- Liberty vs. Delaware (Liberty Arena)
- Tipoff: Saturday at 1:02 p.m. ET
- TV: ESPN+
- Radio: LFSN Radio
- Live Stats
- CUSA-leading Liberty (16-3, 8-0 CUSA) will host Delaware (5-13, 1-6 CUSA) on Saturday afternoon.
- Saturday's game tip time was moved up five hours from 6 p.m. to 1 p.m. due to this weekend's impending winter storm.
- Liberty's 8-0 league start is the best start to a conference season in program history.
- The Flames are one of 14 teams in the nation currently unbeaten in conference play.
- Liberty earned a 76-69 road win at WKU on Wednesday, its 10th straight victory. Delaware dropped its most recent game by a 97-68 score to NM State.
- Liberty's 10-game winning streak is the eighth longest streak in the country at present. The streak is also the fourth longest in school history and longest since a 12-game winning streak from Jan. 16-March 7, 2021.
- The Flames are a perfect 10-0 at home this year. Liberty is averaging 87.3 ppg and shooting 56.1 percent at Liberty Arena.
- Liberty has 193 wins since the start of the 2018-19 season, tied for fifth most in the nation in that span.
- Liberty is No. 2 in the country in field goal percentage (52.4), No. 2 in effective field goal percentage (.620), No. 3 in three-point percentage (41.0), No. 3 in fewest turnovers per game (8.8), No. 5 in assist/turnover ratio (1.97) and No. 7 in fewest fouls per game (13.8) (leads CUSA in all of the above).
- Brett Decker Jr. has the second-best three-point percentage (50.0) in the nation. Zach Cleveland is No. 7 in the country in assists per game (7.0).
- This will be the third all-time meeting meeting the two programs but first since the 2014-15 season. The Fightin' Blue Hens are in their inaugural CUSA season, while this is the third year in the league for the Flames. The series is even 1-1, with each team winning at home. The last matchup between the two institutions came on Nov. 17, 2014, a 61-55 Flames win at the Vines Center. Tomasz Gielo also led the way with a double-double of 23 points and 10 rebounds.
- The Flames are 8-0 in CUSA play for the first time.
- Cleveland also is No. 6 nationally in defensive rebounds per game (7.39). He is also second in the league and 68th nationally in rebounds per game (8.1) and leads the conference in double-doubles (6).
- Decker Jr. also ranks No. 7 in the country in threes per game (3.53) and No. 7 in total three-pointers (67).
- Liberty is the first team to start 8-0 or better in CUSA play since the 2022-23 Florida Atlantic team (11-0), who went on to make the Final Four. The Flames are the only team to start 8-0 since they joined the league prior to the start of the 2023-24 season.
- Cleveland (1,029 points) became the 35th player in program history to eclipse the 1,000-point mark in his Liberty career with an 11-point effort against NM State. Cleveland joined Colin Porter (Jan. 8 at LA Tech) and Kaden Metheny (Dec. 16 at Midway) as one of three active 1,000-point scorers for the Flames.
- Liberty is one of only two schools in the nation to have three active players with 1,000-plus career points at their current institutions. The only other school is Purdue (Braden Smith, Fletcher Loyer and Trey Kaufman-Renn).
- Liberty is 34-of-41 from the foul line (82.9 percent) in the final two minutes of regulation and overtime in its first eight CUSA games.
- The Flames have led for 256:57 of a possible 325 minutes in conference play (79.1 percent).
- Liberty is 16-0 when outshooting its opponent and has shot 50 percent or better 12 times.
- Decker Jr. is the only Flame to score in double figures in all 19 games this season. He has been Liberty's leading scorer (or tied) nine times and has seven 20-plus point games. He is averaging a team-best 17.4 ppg in eight CUSA games.
- The Flames are currently No. 84 in the NCAA NET Rankings and No. 94 in KenPom. Delaware is No. 300 in the NET and No. 297 in KenPom.
- Liberty is No. 3 in CUSA and 46th nationally in scoring defense (68.1).
- The Flames have the fourth-best winning percentage (.760, 193-61) of all teams in the nation in the last eight seasons.
- This will be Liberty's 16th all-time game on this date but first since the 2014-15 season. The Flames last played on this date 11 years ago (2015), an 84-76 road Big South loss at Radford. Liberty is 4-11 all-time on this date.
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