Liberty Basketball looks to slow down Cade Cunningham and Oklahoma State
By William Cash
Let the A-Sun Player of the Year do his thing
Like I said earlier Darius McGhee has an outstanding season winning, numerous awards from around the country. This is also not the first go around in the Tournament for the 5″9′ guard. As a freshman in Liberty’s 2019 Tournament run, he was quiet against Mississippi St., but in a narrow loss to Virginia Tech he had a great showing leading the Flames in scoring with 15 points and 45% from the field. This was against no slight competition either dong it against the Hokie’s all-time assist leader in Justin Robinson who had a stint in the NBA.
Not to mention McGhee was scorching to end the regular season too. As the junior scored 22 points against UNF, 24 and 29 points in back-to-back games against North Alabama, then put up 34 points against Bellarmine to win the Flames their third straight A-Sun regular-season title. Not to mention he shot 77% from three over this four-game stretch.
If I’m coach Ritchie McKay, every possession on offense he is in the game, I’m telling McGee either to go score or make a play for his teammates. We have seen McGhee have some big games against some great talent, but this will be for sure the biggest test of his college career having to go against the perennial no.1 pick in the NBA draft, Cade Cunningham. If Liberty wants to pull off the biggest upset in school history McGhee is going to have to show out.