The Liberty Flames will take on the Towson Tigers at 5 p.m. ET on Friday at Entertainment & Sports Arena. Liberty is 12-0 overall, while Towson is 5-5 so far this season. In addition to being a perfect 12-0 straight up, Liberty is 7-3 against the spread when playing Division-I opponents. Towson, meanwhile, is 5-4 against the spread this season. It's the first all-time meeting between the two programs. The Flames are favored by 6.5-points in the latest Towson vs. Liberty odds, while the over-under is set at 121.5. Before entering any Liberty vs. Towson picks, you'll want to see the college basketball predictions from the model at SportsLine.
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Even if it wasn't a dominant performance, Towson beat Maryland-Baltimore County 77-71 last week. The Tigers hit 10-of-22 from beyond the arc in the win and disrupted the general flow of the UMBC offense by only allowing eight assists on the Retrievers' 26 made field goals. Brian Fobbs had 33 points on 7-of-9 shooting from the 3-point line in the victory. The 33 points were a career-high for the sophomore guard who is averaging 16.0 points per game this season.
Meanwhile, Liberty scored its biggest win of the season on Saturday, upsetting Vanderbilt on the road 61-56. Myo Baxter-Bell had 18 points off the bench and Caleb Homesley finished with 14 points. The Flames have been playing lockdown defense all season and limited Vanderbilt to just 35.3 percent shooting from the floor.
Liberty is giving up just 50.2 points per game this season, the second-best mark in Division-I. The Flames do a sensational job of running opposing offenses off the 3-point line, ranking seventh in Division-I by allowing just 24.8 percent shooting from beyond the arc. After winning 29 games a season ago, Ritchie McKay has the Flames buying into his vision for the program wholeheartedly and the Flames look like one of America's best mid-majors yet again.
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