Liberty 90-61 Western Kentucky (8 Mar, 2025) Box Score

Liberty Flames

25-6, 13-5 CUSA

	1	2	T
LIB	49	41	90
WKU	22	39	61

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

17-14, 8-10 CUSA

Liberty Flames

starters
Owen AquinoO. Aquino#8
Zach ClevelandZ. Cleveland#25
Colin PorterC. Porter#0
Jayvon MaughmerJ. Maughmer#32
Kaden MethenyK. Metheny#3
bench
Will GibsonW. Gibson#15
Kai YuK. Yu#45
Bryson SpellB. Spell#5
Zander YatesZ. Yates#11
Brett Decker Jr.B. Decker Jr.#4
Curtis Blair IIIC. Blair III#24
JC Shirer Jr.JC Shirer Jr.#10
Taelon PeterT. Peter#2
Gabriel McKayG. McKay#21
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
15	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	2	1	1	0	3	0
31	6-8	0-0	2-4	1	5	6	8	0	2	2	1	14
31	3-6	3-6	0-1	0	0	0	3	0	0	1	3	9
31	7-10	5-5	0-0	4	11	15	6	0	2	3	1	19
26	2-9	0-6	0-0	0	4	4	1	0	0	0	1	4
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
4	1-3	0-0	0-2	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	2
3	0-0	0-0	2-2	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	1	2
3	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0
7	1-3	1-3	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	3
15	5-8	3-5	3-3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	16
3	0-0	0-0	0-1	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0
2	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	7-12	4-8	3-3	1	8	9	2	1	0	0	2	21
6	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	0
	32-61	16-34	10-16	7	38	45	22	2	5	8	17	90
	52.5%	47.1%	62.5%

Western Kentucky Hilltoppers

starters
Tyrone Marshall Jr.T. Marshall Jr.#24
Blaise KeitaB. Keita#1
Braxton BaylessB. Bayless#0
Don McHenryD. McHenry#2
Jalen JacksonJ. Jackson#3
bench
Leeroy OdiahiL. Odiahi#21
Enoch KalambayE. Kalambay#23
Jack EdelenJ. Edelen#15
Jaylen DorseyJ. Dorsey#22
Tyler OldenT. Olden#31
Khristian LanderK. Lander#4
team

MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
25	2-4	0-0	0-0	4	5	9	1	0	0	0	2	4
14	0-2	0-0	0-0	1	2	3	0	0	0	0	1	0
25	2-6	0-1	0-0	1	4	5	1	1	0	2	4	4
25	5-16	3-9	1-2	0	3	3	1	0	0	2	0	14
27	3-10	1-3	1-2	2	1	3	2	0	0	0	3	8
MIN	FG	3PT	FT	OREB	DREB	REB	AST	STL	BLK	TO	PF	PTS
13	0-1	0-0	0-3	1	2	3	0	0	2	0	1	0
20	1-4	0-0	3-3	1	4	5	2	1	0	1	1	5
13	0-1	0-0	0-0	0	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	0
8	2-3	1-2	0-0	0	2	2	0	0	0	0	2	5
2	1-2	1-2	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	3
28	7-19	2-11	2-4	0	0	0	3	2	0	1	2	18
	23-68	8-28	7-14	12	26	38	10	5	2	6	16	61
	33.8%	28.6%	50.0%

E.A. Diddle Arena

8:00 PM, 8 March 2025

Bowling Green, KY

Attendance: 4,247

Referees:
Rodrick Dixon
Shane Land
Michael Wallace

Team	CONF	GB	OVR
Liberty	13-5	-	28-7
Middle Tennessee	12-6	1	22-12
Jacksonville State	12-6	1	23-13
Kennesaw State	10-8	3	19-14
New Mexico State	10-8	3	17-15
Louisiana Tech	9-9	4	20-12
Western Kentucky	8-10	5	17-15
UTEP	7-11	6	18-15
Sam Houston	6-12	7	13-19
Florida International	3-15	10	10-23

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