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WBB Game Day Central: Charleston Southern

February 21, 2018  Lynchburg, Va.  RSS
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Lela Sellers scored a career-high 21 points during her first visit to the Buc Dome, last season.

Lela Sellers scored a career-high 21 points during her first visit to the Buc Dome, last season.

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Game Time:
Saturday - 3 p.m.

TV Coverage:
Big South Network

Radio Coverage:
Liberty Flames Sports Network - Radio
WQLU 90.9 FM The Light
Play-By-Play Broadcaster: Jamie Hall

The Starting 5 - Liberty's Top Storylines
• Big South leader Liberty (18-9, 13-2 Big South) will wrap up its regular-season road schedule on Saturday with a visit to Charleston Southern (10-16, 5-10 Big South).

• The Lady Flames have won back-to-back games overall and six straight contests at the Buc Dome. Meanwhile, CSU is looking to stop a four-game losing skid.

• Liberty has held 11 straight opponents below 60 points and is allowing just 49 ppg in Big South play. The Lady Flames limited CSU to 1-of-11 from the field in the fourth quarter on Jan. 6, breaking a 40-40 deadlock through three periods.

• Ashtyn Baker captured her fourth Big South Freshman of the Week honor on Monday and is off to a strong start as she aims for a fifth award. Baker scored 11 of her team-high 15 points during the third quarter at Winthrop on Tuesday and shot 7-of-7 from the field.

• Sophomore Lela Sellers scored a career-high 21 points during her only previous game at CSU (Jan. 3, 2017) and tallied 11 points during the Lady Flames' win over the Buccaneers on Jan. 6 this season.


Series History vs. Charleston Southern
Overall: Liberty leads, 58-7
Streak: Liberty W1
At Liberty: Liberty leads, 29-3
At CSU: Liberty leads, 24-4
Neutral: Liberty leads, 5-0
Carey Green vs. CSU: 41-2
CSU's Last Win: CSU 52, at Liberty 50, 3/10/17

Last 5 Meetings:
1/6/18 Liberty 63, CSU 53 (H)
3/10/17 CSU 52, Liberty 50 (H)
2/17/17 Liberty 67, CSU 56 (H)
1/3/17 Liberty 81, CSU 72 (A)
3/11/16 Liberty 68, CSU 53 (N)

Notes and Anecdotes - Liberty vs. Charleston Southern
• Liberty, which is looking to sweep the regular-season series from Charleston Southern, has won six straight visits to the Buc Dome and is 17-1 in its last 18 contests in Charleston.
 
• Charleston Southern currently sits eighth in the Big South standings at 5-10, but the Buccaneers have not been an easy matchup for some of the conference's top teams. CSU took both Radford and UNC Asheville to overtime and lost two games to High Point by a total of four points.
 
• Liberty and Charleston Southern have squared off in the Big South Championship quarterfinals in each of the last two years. Such a meeting is possible once again in 2018. If the tournament started today, No. 1 seed Liberty would meet the winner between No. 8 seed CSU and No. 9 seed Longwood in the quarterfinal round. 
 
• Liberty is seeking its third straight win. Meanwhile, CSU is looking to snap a four-game losing streak.
 
• Charleston Southern features truly balanced scoring, as six players average between 8.0-9.8 ppg, including Njeri Nelms, Weknyne Dumorne, Shelby Wilbanks, Rachel Burns, Ke'Asia Jackson and Shauntavia Dobson.
 
• Both Liberty and CSU have traveled extensively of late. Saturday marks the Lady Flames' fourth road game in their last five outings. Meanwhile, five of the Bucs' last seven games have been played on the road, including two trips to Virginia.

On This Date
• Liberty is 4-4 all-time on Feb. 24. 
 
• The Lady Flames recorded a 74-47 victory at Charleston Southern on Feb. 24, 1992 in Liberty's final conference game during its first season of Big South play. Wendy Johnson led the way with 21 points and nine rebounds.
 
• Liberty is 225-132 all-time in February, including 126-16 under Carey Green and 5-1 this season.


Lady Flames in the Palmetto State
• Liberty is 64-9 when playing in South Carolina under Head Coach Carey Green, including 2-0 this season. The Lady Flames' last two Big South titles (2013 and 2015) were won in Conway, S.C.

• The Lady Flames' first South Carolina trip of 2017-18 resulted in a 76-64 victory at Presbyterian on Jan. 2.
 
• Liberty are making their second Palmetto State visit this week, following a 73-53 win at Winthrop on Tuesday.
 
• Liberty is 24-4 all-time at Charleston Southern, including 17-1 during Carey Green's 19 seasons as head coach.

 
Lady Flames vs. the Big South
• Liberty is alone atop the Big South standings at 13-2.
 
• The Lady Flames have clinched a top-four seed for the Big South Women's Basketball Championship and are chasing their first Big South regular-season title since 2014-15.
 
• The Lady Flames have now recorded 10 or more Big South wins for 19 straight seasons. Chattanooga, Green Bay and Stanford are the nation's only other teams which entered 2017-18 with an active streak of 18 straight seasons with 10+ wins within the same conference.