Wake Forest Athletics
Post Game Notes
11/11/2005 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Nov. 11, 2005
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Wake Forest's Win Tonight Gives The Deacons
... a 2-0 record and a berth into the semifinals of the 2k Classic Thursday night against Florida in Madison Square Garden
... a 2-0 record for the seventh consecutive season
... a 96-35 all-time record in five seasons under Skip Prosser (Prosser is 261-113 in 13 seasons overall)
... 18 consecutive victories in Joel Coliseum -- the fifth-longest current streak in Division I
... a record of 59-6 in home games under Skip Prosser
... a record of 48-1 in their last 49 non-conference home games
... an all-time record in Joel Coliseum of 204-42, including a 11-4-6 mark in non-conference games
... 12 consecutive victories in games played in November
... a 1-0 all-time record against George Mason and a 50-12 all-time record against teams currently in the CAA
... an all-time record of 1,333-1,006
Overtime Notes
... Wake Forest has not lost a home overtime game since Tim Duncan's senior year in 1997
... The Deacons went 0-3 last season in OT but all three of those games came away from Joel Coliseum
... Wake entered tonight with a three-game losing streak in overtime games
... The last time the Deacons played a home overtime game (and the last time WFU won an overtime game) came on Feb. 25, 2004 -- a 90-87 win against Florida State
Miscellaneous
... After shooting 65.9 percent last night, the Deacons shot 59.6 percent against George Mason
... For the second straight night, Wake Forest had more rebounds than its opponent, but it also had more turnovers
... Wake Forest has made at least one three-point field goal in 427 consecutive games
Senior Justin Gray
... has more assists in the fist two games of the season combined (13) than Chris Paul had in the first two games of last season (11)
... Gray entered the season having made at least one three-pointer in 53 straight games; after going 0-of-0 last night, he was 0-of-4 tonight
... scored in double figures for the 71st time in his career
... played in his 89th career game and started for the 73rd time
... his 12th point tonight moved him past Jerry Schellenberg into 19th place on Wake Forest's all-time career scoring chart
Senior Trent Strickland
... NAMED MVP OF THE WINSTON-SALEM REGIONAL
... had the two highest-rebounding games of his career over the last two nights; he had 12 boards last night and 11 tonight; prior to last night, he had never pulled down more than eight rebounds in a game
... had his second straight double-double -- the first two double-doubles of his career
... hit his first three-point attempt tonight, meaning he began the season 4-of-4 from behind the arc
... scored in double figures for the second straight game and for the 20th time in his career
... played in his 94th career game
Senior Eric Williams
... scored in double figures for the 68th time in his career
... played in his 97th career game and started for the 89th time. He should soon become just the 10th Wake Forest player to start in 100 games
Senior Chris Ellis
... including last night, Ellis began the season 3-of-3 and 4-of-5 from three-point range
... had a career-high tonight for three-pointers made; prior to tonight, he had made two three-pointers in a game just once -- Nov. 22, 2004 against Yale
... he also had a career high tonight for three-point attempts; he had never attempted more than two three-pointers in a game prior to tonight
... remember, Ellis had zero three-pointers as a freshman, zero as a sophomore and just 11 treys last season as a junior
... scored in double figures for the seventh time in his career
