Wake Forest Athletics
Wake Forest Postgame Notes
11/10/2005 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Nov. 10, 2005
Winston-Salem, N.C. - Wake Forest's Win Tonight Gives The Deacons....
... a 1-0 record and a berth into the second round of the 2k Classic Friday night
... 17 consecutive victories in Joel Coliseum, tying Niagara for the fith-longest current streak in Division I
... 12 consecutive victories in season openers -- Wake hasn't lost a season opener since Tim Duncan's freshman season in 1993-94
... 17 consecutive wins in home openers -- the Deacons haven't lost a home opener since 1988
... a record of 58-6 in home games under Skip Prosser
... a record of 47-1 in their last 48 non-conference home games
... an all-time record in Joel Coliseum of 203-42, including a 113-6 mark in non-conference games
... 11 consecutive victories in games played in November
... a 1-0 all-time record against Mississippi Valley State and a 1-0 mark all-time against teams from the SWAC
... an all-time record of 1,332-1,006
Deacon Coach Skip Prosser...
... is now 95-35 in his fifth season at Wake Forest, 260-113 in 13 seasons overall as a head coach
... is 5-0 in season openers with the Deacons
... is 15-1 in November games with the Deacons
Miscellaneous
... Wake Forest's field goal percentage (.659) was the sixth-highest in school history and the highest since shooting 70 percent against Mount St. Mary's on Nov. 16, 2000
... Wake Forest has made at least one three-point field goal in 426 consecutive games
Senior Justin Gray
... his streak of making at least one three-point field goal in a game was snapped at 53 games; he did not attempt a three-pointer tonight
... had a career-high number of assists; prior to tonight, he had never dished out more than six assists in a game
... scored in double figures for the 70th time in his career
... played in his 88th career game and started for the 72nd time
Senior Trent Strickland
... had a career-high number of three-point field goals; his previous career best was two, which he had previously reached four times
... had a career-high number of rebounds; his previous career best was eight boards, which he reached last season against VCU
... recorded his first career double-double
... scored in double figures for the 19th time in his career
... played in his 93rd career game
Senior Eric Williams
... his field goal percentage (.833) was the highest by a Deacon player to make 10 field goals since Feb. 17, 2002 when Darius Songaila made 11 of 13 attempts
... scored in double figures for the 67th time in his career
... played in his 96th career game and started for the 88th time. He should soon become just the 10th Wake Forest player to start in 100 games
... Williams' 17th point tonight was the 1,200th of his career
... his 20th point, the 1,203rd of his career, moved him past both Dickie Walker and Mark Cline into 28th place on Wake Forest's all-time career scoring chart
Junior Michael Drum
... became the first non-scholarship player to start for Wake Forest since Jim Fitzpatrick started five games in 1999-00
Junior Kyle Visser
... made his ninth career start
Freshman Harvey Hale
... scored in double figures in his first collegiate game
