WBB Game Day: Jacksonville State

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Liberty (10-10, 4-5 CUSA) will tip off a two-game road swing on Thursday with its only regular-season matchup against Jacksonville State (11-10, 5-4 CUSA).
The Lady Flames have won three straight head-to-head meetings with the Gamecocks, improving to 5-2 in the all-time series. The home team is 6-1 in the seven previous Liberty vs. Jax State clashes.
The Lady Flames halted a four-game home losing streak with a 60-52 victory over Missouri State in their most recent contest, Sunday at Liberty Arena. Liberty is 4-5 halfway through its CUSA schedule and needs to go 6-3 or better the rest of the way to post its 27th straight season with 10+ conference wins.
Avery Mills tops CUSA and ranks No. 13 nationally with 3.0 three-pointers per game. The Lady Flames' leading scorer (15.1 ppg), she has reached double digits in 10 straight games. Mills tallied 11 points in 19 minutes the last time she played at Jax State (Feb. 27, 2025).
Ify Nwaobi is coming off her second career double-double (11 points, 10 rebounds) during the Missouri State game. The redshirt freshman paces the Lady Flames with 9.6 rpg (No. 2 in CUSA), helping Liberty rank No. 1 in CUSA and No. 29 nationally for rebound margin (+8.0).

Notes and Anecdotes

Jax State is one of four CUSA opponents Liberty will face only once during the 2025-26 regular season, also including Kennesaw State, Louisiana Tech and Sam Houston.
Jax State is the only team Liberty has shared a conference with for each of the last five seasons (2021-22 and 2022-23 - ASUN, 2023-24 to present - CUSA).
The home team had won the first six Liberty-Jax State matchups before the Lady Flames prevailed at Pete Mathews Coliseum last season.
The Gamecocks are 7-2 at home this season, and their 11 wins have surpassed Jax State's total from 2024-25 (10).
Jax State is currently tied for fifth in the CUSA standings at 5-4, while Liberty is tied for seventh at 4-5. At season's end, the top six teams will earn a bye to the CUSA quarterfinal round while seeds No. 7-10 will play in the first round.
Liberty is 4-5 midway through its 18-game CUSA schedule. The Lady Flames need to go 6-3 or better the rest of the way to reach 10 conference wins for the 27th straight year.
Jax State paces CUSA with 8.0 triples/game, while Liberty's Avery Mills is the CUSA individual leader with 3.0 triples/game. Mills (40.5 percent) and the Gamecocks' Mya Barnes (40.4) rank 1-2 in CUSA for three-point FG percentage.

At Home on the Road

Liberty has actually played better on the road (4-3 record) than it has at home (4-5) thus far in 2025-26.
Sophomores Avery Mills (18.4 ppg, 25 three-pointers, 48.1 3FG%) and Emmy Stout (16.9 ppg, 7.1 rpg, 57.7 FG%) have both been effective on the road this season.
During their only previous visit to Jacksonville State, Mills and Stout combined for 22 points in 39 total minutes of playing time, shooting 9-of-11 from the field.

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 36-13 versus CUSA foes over the last three seasons, including 31-12 in conference play, 5-1 in the CUSA Championship, 16-5 at home and 15-7 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).

Climbing the Charts

Elisabeth Aegisdottir needs three boards to become one of the top 50 rebounders in program history.
With 60 three-pointers this season, Mills is three away from moving into a fourth-place tie on Liberty's single-season list. Cynthia Thomson (1990-91) and Mills' former teammates Emma Hess (2022-23) and Asia Boone (2023-24) each knocked down 63 triples in a season. Hess owns the Liberty single-season record of 76, set in 2023-24.

Spreading the Wealth

Nine different Lady Flames have scored in double figures this year, and those same nine individuals have all led the team in scoring at least once. They include Avery Mills, JaKayla Thompson, Claudia Acin, Ify Nwaobi, Emmy Stout, Elisabeth Aegisdottir, Lydie Mwamba, Emma Leon and Lynn Peters.
Over the last three games, Liberty has outscored its opponents in bench points, 54-12.

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