With Thursday night’s win over Eastern Kentucky in an electric atmosphere at Liberty Arena, the Liberty Flames advanced to the 2023 ASUN Tournament Championship Game. The Flames will go up against the 1-seed Kennesaw State Owls on Sunday afternoon in a game scheduled to tip-off at 3 p.m. on ESPN2.
This is the fifth conference championship game appearance for Liberty in six years while Kennesaw State is playing in their program’s first ever conference title game at the Division I level.
Liberty will be playing in its 10th conference championship games in school history and has a total record of 6-3 in those games entering Sunday’s trip to Kennesaw. Here is a look at each of those games and the final results:
1994 Big South: W – Liberty 76, Campbell 62 (Charleston, SC)
1996 Big South: L – UNC Greensboro 79, Liberty 53 (Vines Center, Lynchburg, VA)
1997 Big South: L – Charleston Southern 64, Liberty 54 (Vines Center, Lynchburg, VA)
2004 Big South: W – Liberty 89, High Point 44 (Vines Center, Lynchburg, VA)
2013 Big South: W – Liberty 87, Charleston Southern 76 (Conway, SC)
2018 Big South: L – Radford 55, Liberty 52 (Radford, VA)
2019 ASUN: W – Liberty 74, Lipscomb 68 (Nashville, TN)
2020 ASUN: W – Liberty 73, Lipscomb 57 (Vines Center, Lynchburg, VA)
2021 ASUN: W – Liberty 79, North Alabama 75 (Jacksonville, FL)
2023 ASUN: #2 Liberty vs #1 Kennesaw State (Kennesaw, GA)
