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RADFORD, Va. -- Radford plays its final road contest of the season, a 7 p.m. televised Big South game at Liberty on Tuesday night.

The Highlanders (14-11, 10-5 Big South) play twice on Mid-Atlantic Sports Network in their final four regular season games, including Tuesday's matchup, which will also air on ESPN Full Court.

Radford will try and rebound from its second home Big South loss of the season, a 52-51 defeat by Coastal Carolina on Saturday night. The Highlanders' only other conference home loss came in its first meeting with Liberty on Jan. 23 (60-55).

A three-game Big South winning streak was snapped for the Highlanders when Coastal Carolina's Danny Nieman hit a free throw with five tenths of a second remaining to lift the Chanticleers.

After Logan Johnson's free throws tied the game 51-51 with 17 seconds to go, he forced a Highlander turnover at the other end and fed the ball ahead to Nieman, who was fouled while attempting a game-winning shot in the lane with less than a second left.

Trailing by 16 at the break, Radford opened the second half on a 17-3 run to cut the deficit to two, 40-38, with 11:39 left but couldn't hold on late.

During the streak that nearly put the Highlanders in control, Amir Johnson (Pittsburgh, Pa./Quaker Valley) became the Big South's all-time assist leader with 568 when he fed backcourt mate Blake Smith for a 15-foot jumper at the 16:41 mark.

Johnson, who already established the Radford assists standard this season by passing the previous mark of 510 helpers, is five steals away from tying the school record of 192. He is one of eight players in Big South history with 1,000 points and 500 assists.

In Radford's last matchup with Liberty, the Highlanders were limited to 33 percent shooting (20-for-61) and made just one of their 22 3-point attempts.

Since that meeting, the Flames (13-13, 8-6) are 3-2, including a 69-61 win at Gardner-Webb on Saturday night. In the win, Jeremy Anderson and Evan Gordon, who had 16 points in the last matchup with Radford, scored 17 points each to lead Liberty. The Flames were 6-for-12 from the 3-point line in their win, and had 11 steals on 18 Gardner-Webb turnovers.

In its last trip to the Vines Center, Art Parakhouski (Minsk, Belarus) and Kenny Thomas each recorded double-doubles to lead five Radford players in double figures as the Highlanders ended Liberty's 11-game home winning streak with a 94-82 victory in double overtime on Jan. 24, 2009.

Tied 78-78 after the first extra session, Radford opened the second overtime with seven straight points and never looked back outscoring the Flames 16-4 in the stanza.