WBB Game Day: No. 3 Seed Lipscomb

• No. 2 seed Liberty (23-7, 16-2 ASUN) will host No. 3 seed Lipscomb (20-11, 13-5 ASUN) in an ASUN Women's Basketball Championship semifinal, Wednesday at Liberty Arena.

• The Lady Flames have won 15 straight games overall and 13 in a row at Liberty Arena. Liberty is 9-0 all-time against Lipscomb and 5-0 all-time in home games during the ASUN Championship.

• Liberty will look to advance to the championship game of its conference tournament for the fourth time in five years as an ASUN member and the 23rd time in the last 27 seasons overall.

• Mya Berkman was named first team All-ASUN and selected to the ASUN All-Academic Team for the second year in a row. She leads the nation in field goal percentage (69.9) and recorded her 11th double-double of the season (14 points, 11 rebounds) on Sunday.

• Liberty broke its single-season record for three-pointers made on Sunday and has now hit 198 triples on the year. Emma Hess, who leads the team with 56, posted career-highs for points (28) and triples (7) during the Lady Flames' 65-56 win at Lipscomb on Jan. 28.

Notes and Anecdotes – Liberty vs. Lipscomb

• Liberty is 9-0 all-time against Lipscomb, marking the Lady Flames' second-best record against a current ASUN opponent. Liberty improved to 11-0 all-time versus Kennesaw State with its 91-70 quarterfinal triumph on Sunday.

• Four of the nine previous Liberty-Lipscomb matchups have been decided by 10 points or fewer, including two OT games.

• Wednesday will mark the first-ever Liberty-Lipscomb meeting within the ASUN Women's Basketball Championship.

• This is the second time Liberty has hosted an ASUN semifinal but the first at Liberty Arena. The Lady Flames topped North Florida, 65-51, at the Vines Center in 2019.

• Liberty Head Coach Carey Green has posted a 546-215 record during 24 seasons with the Lady Flames. His next win will tie him with Paul Wetmore (softball, 1994-2013) as the winningest coach in Liberty Athletics Department history.

• The Lady Flames have set a new Liberty Arena scoring record during each of their last two home games, posting a 90-77 win over Eastern Kentucky on Feb. 25 and a 91-70 triumph over Kennesaw State on Sunday.

• The Lady Flames rank No. 14 nationally in blocked shots (5.1) and have not averaged this many rejections for a full season since 2002-03 (5.2 blocks/game).

Summarizing the Streak

• Liberty's current 15-game winning streak, which began on Jan. 14 at Jacksonville, is its longest since an 18-game streak spanning Dec. 29, 2008-March 6, 2009.

• All four previous times the Lady Flames posted a 15-game winning streak or longer, they advanced to the NCAA Tournament (1997-98, 2002-03, 2003-04 and 2008-09).

• Through March 5, Liberty's 15-game winning streak is the sixth-longest active streak in NCAA Division I women's basketball, trailing only South Carolina (38), Gardner-Webb (21), UNLV (19), South Dakota St. (19) and Vermont (16).

Tournament Tidbits

• Liberty will look to advance to the championship game of its conference tournament for the fourth time in five years as an ASUN member and the 23rd time in the last 27 seasons.

• Carey Green is 55-8 when coaching in conference tournament games, including 8-3 in the ASUN.

• Liberty is 60-3 in NCAA Division I conference tournament games when favored by seed, including 7-0 in the ASUN.

• Liberty will try to become the first No. 2 seed to win the ASUN title since FGCU in 2017. The Lady Flames won a pair of Big South titles as the No. 2 seed (1997 and 2010).

• The Lady Flames are 5-0 when playing ASUN Championship games at home, including 2-0 at Liberty Arena.

• Riding a 13-game home winning streak, Liberty is 26-1 all-time against ASUN opponents at Liberty Arena.

WBB Game Day: No. 3 Seed Lipscomb

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