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MBB Game Day: Delaware
2/3/2026 11:28:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Game Day Coverage
- Liberty at Delaware (Bob Carpenter Center | Newark, Del.)
- Tipoff: Wednesday at 7 p.m. ET
- TV: ESPN+
- Radio: LFSN Radio
- Live Stats
- CUSA-leading Liberty (18-3, 10-0 CUSA) will play a road contest at Delaware (6-15, 2-8 CUSA), Wednesday night. Liberty's 10-0 league start is the best start to a conference season in program history.
- This will be the fourth all-time meeting between the two schools and second in the last 11 days. Liberty leads the series 2-1, with the Flames being 2-0 at home and 0-1 on the road at Delaware. In the Jan. 24 meeting, Liberty prevailed 67-51 over Delaware at Liberty Arena. The Flames' defense matched a season high with 16 turnovers forced, and Brett Decker Jr. led the offensive attack with a game-high 25 points. Liberty's only game at Delaware came on Jan. 1, 2014, a 77-64 Blue Hens triumph.
- The Flames are one of eight teams in the nation currently unbeaten in conference play.
- Liberty bested MTSU 81-65 last Thursday for its 12th straight win, led by a career-high-matching 29 points from Kaden Metheny. The Flames bested Delaware 67-51 on Jan. 24 in Lynchburg. The Blue Hens lost their most recent CUSA game, 70-55 at UTEP.
- Liberty's 12-game winning streak is the sixth longest streak in the country at present. The streak is tied for the second best in school history and longest since a 12-game winning streak from Jan. 16-March 7, 2021. The longest winning streak in school history is 14 games, as the Flames went 14-0 to start the 2019-20 season.
- The Flames are 6-1 on the road, including a 5-0 CUSA mark. Liberty is shooting 52.4 percent from the field with 57 threes in those five league road games.
- Liberty has 195 wins since the start of the 2018-19 season, fifth most in the country in that span.
- Liberty is No. 2 in the country in field goal percentage (52.6), No. 2 in effective field goal percentage (.623), No. 2 in fewest turnovers per game (8.5), No. 3 in three-point percentage (41.0), No. 4 in assist/turnover ratio (2.04) and No. 6 in fewest fouls per game (13.7) (leads CUSA in all of the above).
- The Flames are 10-0 in CUSA play for the first time.
- The Flames are currently No. 74 in the NCAA NET Rankings and No. 86 in KenPom. The Blue Hens are No. 296 in the NET and No. 293 in the KenPom.
- Liberty has won 15 straight contests (including postseason play) against Conference USA opponents and is 21-1 in its last 22 games against conference foes dating back to last year.
- Brett Decker Jr. ranks No. 2 nationally in three-point percentage (50.7), No. 8 in three-pointers per game (3.57) and No. 11 in total triples (75).
- Zach Cleveland ranks No. 6 in the country in assists per game (7.1) and No. 7 in defensive rebounds per game (7.3). He is also third in the league and 72nd nationally in rebounds per game (8.0) and leads the conference in double-doubles (6).
- Liberty is the first team to start 10-0 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 10-0 since they joined the league prior to the start of the 2023-24 season.
- Liberty is 38-of-45 from the foul line (84.4 percent) in the final two minutes of regulation and overtime in its 10 CUSA games.
- The Flames have led for 325:05 of a possible 405 minutes in conference play (80.3 percent).
- Liberty is 18-0 when outshooting its opponent and has shot 50 percent or better 13 times.
- Decker Jr. is the only Flame to score in double figures in all 21 games this season. He has been Liberty's leading scorer (or tied) 10 times and has eight 20-plus point games. He is averaging a team-best 17.6 ppg in 10 CUSA games.
- Cleveland (1,047 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 (Jan. 15). The senior 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 has won 12 games in a row, the sixth-longest streak in the nation at present and tied for the second longest in school history. Here are some facts & figures from the streak:
-6-0 home, 6-0 road, 10-0 CUSA, 2-0 non-conference
-78.8 points per game, 67.4 points per game allowed
-52.4% from the field, 41.3% from three (118 3s), 73.7% from FT line
-Leading scorer: Brett Decker Jr. 16.9 ppg
-Leading rebounder: Zach Cleveland 7.4 rpg
-Leader in assists: Zach Cleveland 6.1 apg (69 total/11 games)
-Biggest margin of victory vs. a DI team: 16 (three times)-at Louisiana Tech (Jan. 8), vs. Delaware (Jan. 24) and at Middle Tennessee (Jan. 29)
-Closest win: 73-71 over New Mexico State (Jan. 15)
-Marquee non-conference win: 64-61 at Dayton (Dec. 20)
-Only 7.8 turnovers per game in the 12 wins, including eight games with seven or less
-All starters averaging in double figures in those 11 games (Decker Jr. 16.9 ppg/Metheny 15.8 ppg/Cleveland 12.5 ppg/Porter 11.4 ppg/Harper 10.3 ppg)
-16.8 assists per game, 7.2 steals per game
-Streak started on Dec. 16, last loss was Dec. 10 (will be a span of 56 days when Liberty plays at Delaware)
-Longest winning streak in school history is 14 games, as the Flames started the 2019-20 season with a 14-0 record (Nov. 8-Dec. 21, 2019) - Liberty is ranked No. 3 in the College Insider Men's Mid-Major Top 25® for a third straight week, behind only No. 1 Gonzaga (22-1) and No. 2 Miami (Ohio) (22-0). The Flames are the only CUSA team in the Top 25.
- This will be 19th all-time game for the Flames on Feb. 4. Liberty is 8-10 all-time on this date. The Flames last played on this date three years ago (2023) in their final season in the ASUN. Liberty fell 69-64 at Lipscomb. Darius McGhee Liberty's Darius McGhee etched his name in the record books by becoming the program's new all-time leading scorer.McGhee, who entered the night needing nine points to break Karl Hess' record of 2,373 career points which had stood for 43 years, scored a team-high 19 points in that contest. The record-setting moment came at the 13:18 mark of the second half, as McGhee knocked down a three-pointer from the right wing to break out of a tie with Hess and get to 2,376 career points. McGhee went on to finish his career with 2,685 points.
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