WBB Game Day: Louisiana Tech

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Defending CUSA champion Liberty (8-6, 2-1 CUSA) and 2025-26 CUSA preseason favorite Louisiana Tech (8-5, 1-1 CUSA) will square off for the only time during the regular season Sunday afternoon before a national TV audience on ESPNU.
The Lady Flames will look to bounce back from an uncharacteristic home conference loss to Sam Houston on Thursday. Liberty is now 39-4 in conference tilts at Liberty Arena all-time.
Liberty owns a 4-1 all-time mark against LA Tech with the most recent meeting being an 80-53 Lady Flames triumph in the 2025 CUSA semifinals. Three of the teams' contests have been decided by single digits.
Avery Mills earned her first CUSA Player of the Week honor on Monday. She is averaging a team-high 19.0 ppg during conference play, connecting on 12 triples at a 54.5 percent clip. As a freshman, Mills tallied a game-high 17 points off the bench during the Lady Flames' CUSA semifinal victory over LA Tech last year.
Redshirt freshman Ify Nwaobi corralled a career-high 16 rebounds against Sam Houston on Thursday, falling just two shy of the Liberty Arena record. She has grabbed double-digit boards during eight of her first 14 collegiate outings.

Notes and Anecdotes

Sunday's matinee features the top two teams in the CUSA preseason poll, but both Louisiana Tech and Liberty have dropped home games to Sam Houston during the early stages of conference play.
Road teams are 10-6 in CUSA action through Thursday's contests. Liberty and LA Tech are a combined 3-0 on the road and 0-2 at home thus far.
This marks the second nationally-televised women's basketball game at Liberty Arena. The Lady Flames topped North Alabama 86-63 on ESPNU on Jan. 16, 2021 with Sophie Cunningham providing the color commentary.
Liberty took two of three meetings from LA Tech last season, including an 80-53 decision in the CUSA semifinals. The Lady Techsters only lost one starter (Robyn Lee) from that matchup, while Liberty only returns one starter (Elisabeth Aegisdottir).
Three of the previous five matchups between the Lady Flames and Lady Techsters have been decided by single digits.
80 percent of the 2025 CUSA All-Freshman Team will be on display Sunday, including the Lady Flames' top two scorers (Avery Mills and Emmy Stout) and the Lady Techsters' top two scorers (Paris Bradley and Jordan Marshall).

Home Sweet Home

Despite a setback in Thursday's CUSA home opener, the Lady Flames are 39-4 all-time in conference games at Liberty Arena, including 24-1 in the ASUN and 15-3 in CUSA.
Liberty is 3-3 at home this season, pushing its all-time mark at Liberty Arena to 68-12.

CUSA Checkup

Liberty has been successful during its first three years of CUSA membership, headlined by its regular-season and tournament titles in 2024-25.
The Lady Flames are 34-9 versus CUSA foes over the last three seasons, including 29-8 in conference play, 5-1 in the CUSA Championship, 15-3 at home and 14-5 on the road.
Liberty has faced three CUSA foes without suffering a loss over the past three years, including Kennesaw State (2-0), New Mexico State (6-0) and UTEP (5-0).
The Lady Flames got off to their first 2-0 conference start as a CUSA member.
Liberty has not lost consecutive CUSA games since dropping its first two contests as a conference member on Jan. 6 (WKU) and Jan. 10, 2024 (Jax State).
Prior to Thursday, the Lady Flames had defeated 13 straight CUSA foes since losing 67-66 at LA Tech on Feb. 6, 2025.

Amazing Avery

Avery Mills was named CUSA Player of the Week on Monday, becoming the first Lady Flame to win the honor since March 4, 2024 (Emma Hess).
Mills' career-high 25 points at New Mexico State on Jan. 2 were the most by a Lady Flame since Nov. 16, 2024 (Bella Smuda - 27 at Tennessee).
21 of Mills' points against the Aggies came after halftime, marking the highest-scoring half by a Liberty player since Feb. 29, 2024 (Hess - 24 at New Mexico State).
Mills' career-high six triples at UTEP on Jan. 4 were the most by a Lady Flame since Nov. 4, 2024 (Hess - 6 vs. Valparaiso).

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