{"id":6076,"date":"2023-07-25T11:38:53","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:38:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=6076"},"modified":"2023-07-25T11:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-25T15:38:53","slug":"liberty-basketball-set-to-play-alabama-in-2023-cm-newton-classic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=6076","title":{"rendered":"Liberty Basketball set to play Alabama in 2023 CM Newton Classic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The now-CUSA&#8217;s Liberty Flames will be Alabama&#8217;s opponent in the annual Birmingham collision on Dec. 30. The Flames will be playing their first season in the C-USA after five years in the ASUN.<\/p>\n<p>The Crimson Tide is 2-0 against Liberty throughout history, with both matchups coming in the last five years. Alabama defeated the Flames 84-75 on Dec. 18, 2018 in Huntsville before blasting them 95-59 last season on Nov. 11, 2022 at Coleman Coliseum.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6BwwSVYYSng\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p> \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.si.com\/college\/alabama\/basketball\/alabama-basketball-set-to-play-liberty-in-2023-cm-newton-classic-hannon?fbclid=IwAR3MOvZpFu1K2BNqjqqr9ju6kGNgfyTGYKBsT8HQ19nvcL7y_ZVuxv_R1KM_aem_ARxQgwvyvnO4OmedB0SlP4sTjMlBRVMLQ5vLD3v2ekU8WBv_vZhB7aBWZ5mSBBnmAD0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ MORE &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The now-CUSA&#8217;s Liberty Flames will be Alabama&#8217;s opponent in the annual Birmingham collision on Dec. 30. The Flames will be playing their fir&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/?p=6076\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Liberty Basketball set to play Alabama in 2023 CM Newton Classic<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[439],"class_list":["post-6076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-liberty-basketball-set-to-play-alabama-in-cm-newton-classic","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pJcR0-1A0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6077,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6076\/revisions\/6077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libertystudentnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}