Mode: | Basketball |
Sex: | none |
Year: | 2019–20 |
Team: | Liberty Flames |
Conference: | ASUN Conference |
Record: | 30–4 |
Conf Record: | 13–3 |
Hc Year: | 5th (7th overall) |
Asst Coach1: | Brad Soucie |
Ac1 Year: | 5th (7th) |
Asst Coach2: | Derek Johnston |
Ac2 Year: | 2nd |
Ac3 Year: | 2nd |
Champion: | The Islands of the Bahamas Showcase champions D.C. Holiday Hoops Classic champions Atlantic Sun regular season co-champions Atlantic Sun tournament champions |
The 2019–20 Liberty Flames men's basketball team represented Liberty University in the 2019–20 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The team played its home games in Lynchburg, Virginia for the 30th consecutive and final season at Vines Center, with a capacity of 8,085. The team was led by Ritchie McKay, who is in his seventh season, but fifth season since his return to the program. They are second-year members of the ASUN Conference.
The Flames finished the 2018–19 season 29–7, 14–2 in ASUN play to finish in second place in their second season in the ASUN. They defeated Jacksonville, North Florida, and Lipscomb in the championship game to win the ASUN tournament.[1] As a result, the Flames received the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament as the No. 12 seed in the East bracket, the school's fourth NCAA Tournament bid. They defeated No. 5-seed Mississippi State in the first round[2] before losing to No. 4-seed Virginia Tech in the second round.[3] This marked Liberty's highest seeding in the NCAA tournament and its first March Madness victory in school history.
Name | Number | Pos. | Height | Weight | Year | Hometown | Notes | ||
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sortname | Lovell Cabbil | 3 | 175 | Graduated | |||||
sortname | Keenan Gumbs | 5 | 210 | Graduated | |||||
sortname | Zach Farquhar | 15 | 160 | Graduated | |||||
sortname | Keegan McDowell | 20 | 180 | Transferred |
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