NCAA 2025-2026

January 17, 2026

LIBERTY Logo LIBERTY United States
80 - 69
UTEP Logo UTEP United States

Match Summary

LIBERTY defeated UTEP 80-69 on January 17, 2026 in the NCAA 2025-2026. LIBERTY won by a 11-point margin. Elijah Jones led all scorers with 21 points. LIBERTY shot 59.3% from the field while UTEP managed 54.9%. LIBERTY collected 20 rebounds and UTEP grabbed 19. This game was played as part of the NCAA 2025-2026 season in United States.

Points Leader

Elijah Jones basketball player - C

Elijah Jones C

6'8" - 2.03m

Efficiency Leader

Zach Cleveland basketball player - F

Zach Cleveland F

22 yrs (2004) 6'7" - 2.01m

80

LIBERTY

# Player Min Pts FG 2FG 3FG FT RDef ROff Ast Stl TOv Blk BlkR PF PFR Eff
25 * Zach Cleveland 34:00 20 9/10 9/9 0/1 2/4 6 0 4 3 4 4 0 0 0 30
4 * Brett Decker, Jr. 34:00 20 8/16 5/10 3/6 1/1 2 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 16
0 * Colin Porter 33:00 15 5/8 2/2 3/6 2/2 3 1 3 0 1 0 0 2 0 18
3 * Kaden Metheny 32:00 13 6/10 5/5 1/5 0/0 3 0 3 3 1 0 0 1 0 17
9 * J.j. Harper 31:00 4 2/7 2/6 0/1 0/0 1 1 2 0 0 1 0 1 0 4
1 Zander Carter 17:00 2 1/1 1/1 0/0 0/0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 3
12 Josh Smith 15:00 6 1/1 1/1 0/0 4/4 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 8
21 Ryan Jones 02:00 0 0/1 0/0 0/1 0/0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 -1
Totals 198:00 80 32/54 25/34 7/20 9/11 16 4 13 7 6 5 0 7 0 95
69

UTEP

# Player Min Pts FG 2FG 3FG FT RDef ROff Ast Stl TOv Blk BlkR PF PFR Eff
13 * Kaseem Watson 38:00 12 5/9 3/5 2/4 0/0 0 0 2 1 2 0 0 0 0 9
4 * Caleb Blackwell 34:00 20 7/13 1/2 6/11 0/0 2 0 7 0 3 0 0 3 0 20
33 * Elijah Jones 33:00 21 9/16 7/11 2/5 1/2 6 1 0 0 2 2 0 2 0 20
1 * K.j. Thomas 33:00 6 3/4 3/4 0/0 0/0 3 0 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 11
15 * Jamal West 30:00 5 2/5 2/5 0/0 1/2 4 0 1 2 2 0 0 2 0 6
11 Trey Horton 16:00 3 1/3 0/0 1/3 0/0 2 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 2
23 Cassius Brooks 15:00 2 1/1 1/1 0/0 0/0 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 4
Totals 199:00 69 28/51 17/28 11/23 2/4 18 1 15 4 12 2 0 10 0 72

* Players marked with * are starters.