Box Score

HIGH POINT, N.C. – Devon Brown scored a game-high 23 points and No. 2 Liberty defeated No. 7 Radford, 70-52 in the quarterfinals of the Advance Auto Parts Big South Women's Basketball Championships, Friday evening from the Millis Center on the campus of High Point University.

Brown was 7-for-11 from the field and hit all seven of her free throw attempts. She also pulled down a game-high eight rebounds.

Denay Wood and Victoria Hamilton paced the Highlanders (6-22) with 12 and 11 points, respectively. Wood grabbed a team-best six rebounds and dished out two assists.

Liberty (25-5), who shot 52 percent in the first half, opened up a 15-4 lead 9:15 into the contest. Capped off by a Wood three, the Highlanders closed the gap to four (15-11) with a 7-0 spurt.

Following Wood's bucket, the Lady Flames reestablished their 11-point lead (24-13) with a 9-2 run.

After a three-pointer by Katherine Brockett got Radford within 24-16, three free throws and a long jumper by Jelena Antic started a 9-2 spurt that gave Liberty its largest lead of the half at 33-18.

One charity toss and a steal and layup by Kaylyn Crosier with few seconds on the clock put the Highlanders within 12 (33-21) going into the break.

Each team turned the ball over 10 times in the first half with Liberty scoring 15 points off those miscues, while Radford tallied just six.

In the second half, Hamilton's elbow jumper at 15:29 cut Liberty's lead to 41-31 and that would be as close as the Highlanders would get.

Twenty-two seconds after Hamilton's bucket, Brown drained a triple that started her own 9-0 run. It pushed the Lady Flames' advantage to 50-31 with 12:33 remaining on the clock.

The Lady Flames would hold at least a 16-point advantage the rest of the way.

Liberty shot 48 percent for the game, while Radford shot 36 percent. Both teams struggled from the charity stripe with the Highlanders hitting 62 percent (13-21) and the Lady Flames 61 percent (20-33).

After getting doubled up on the glass in the last meeting with the Lady Flames, the Highlanders held their own. Liberty out rebounded Radford, 39-32, eight boards lower than its NCAA-leading rebounding margin of 14.8.

Liberty Head Coach Carey Green
"We have a mission here and we are taking it one game at a time. We are thankful for the win and hope to have some more games to play here. We were able to play a good amount of players in today's game, and we think that will pay dividends for us. Radford is a good team and defensively they are one of the best teams in the League. Their man-to-man pressure is very tough to handle."

Radford Head Coach Tajama Abraham Ngongba
"We are disappointed to not get the win. We could have played a little better defensively in the paint, but overall I am proud of the team."