Liberty Jumped on the High Point Panthers early and often tonight in the Vines Center. Liberty lit it up from behind the arc shooting 13-28 (46%) to High Point's 6-21 (28%). Kyle Ohman was feeling it tonight and the confidence showed all night. He shot 5 of 8 from behind the arc and tied his career high of 26 points and pulled down 6 rebounds. He was big all night. Senior Anthony Smith was right behind with 21 points (4-8 from 3pt range). Big man on campus Seth Curry had his first career double double with 18pts and an amazing 10 rebounds for his size. Jesse Sanders only scored 2 points (both on Free-Throws) but was huge with 9 assists and 9 boards. The stellar rebounding effort by the undersized team was impressive, out rebounding HPU 43-29. The Flames were quicker to the ball and tight on defense all night.
The bench continued to be on the anemic side with only 4 points and 7 rebounds. It becomes even more pitiful sounding when you realize that all 4 points and 5 of the rebounds were from one Tyler Baker.
Overall it was a fun game to watch. There were more than 2000 fans there even with the bad weather. The half-time show was rather, well interesting. . . OK it was bad. It was a dance troupe that brought some out of sync the 80's break dance fighting stuff. WOW!
Then LU didn't score for the last 1:37 of the game. The biggest wow minute was when Johnnie Stephene was dribbling out the clock lackadaisically with 5 seconds to go in the game. Nick Barbour from HPU stole the ball, or should I say carefully snuck up and took the ball, and broke away for a lay-up to end the game. It was strange as he actually paused after the "steal" as if he was making sure it was OK. So, a game that had a 21 point margin with a minute and a half to go ended up as a 15 point game. But it was an impressive win nonetheless.
That's all that's rolling around in the Dome for now.
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