Nick Garth came into the day as Lamar's leading scorer, but missed both of his field goal attempts & had just two points at halftime of Saturday's game.
That all changed in the second half as the freshman guard from Houston scored 20 points on 7-of-11 shooting without a turnover as the Cardinals won going away 73-58.
Garth didn't actually get going offensively until eight minutes had passed in the second, but hit consecutive lay-ups about a minute apart, the last becoming a three-point play at the 10:39 mark and hit a pretty fade along the baseline, part of a 2 1/2-minute span late in the game where he scored nine straight Cardinals' points.
"He’s a good player, you leave him open, he’s got confidence," Liberty coach Ritchie McKay said of Garth. "He did a good job for their team offensively tonight."
Liberty was just dreadful in the first half, hitting only three field goals and tying the team record for fewest points in a half (14) at the Vines Center. The Flames, who lost their seventh consecutive game, picked it up considerably in the second half (16-of-24 from the field), but Lamar was nearly as good over the final 20 minutes (19-of-31).
"It was very frustrating as a player," freshman Lovell Cabbil, who scored 14 points for the hosts, said of the first half. "Second half we just talked to each other more."
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