Wake Forest Athletics
Postgame Notes
1/11/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Jan. 11, 2006
Wake Forest's Loss Tonight Gives The Deacons...
... a record of 11-4 overall and 0-2 in the ACC ... an 0-2 start in ACC play for the first time since 1992-93 ... a record of 35-15 in ACC play over the last four seasons combined ... a 2-1 record on the road this season and an end to their three-game road win streak ... a 28-21 record on the road under Skip Prosser ... a record of 24-13 in January under Skip Prosser ... a record of 38-10 over the last two seasons combined ... a record of 84-26 over the last four seasons combined ... a record of 105-39 over the last five seasons combined ... an all-time record of 93-51 against Clemson ... an end to their five-game winning streak against Clemson ... an 0-4 record this season after trailing at halftime ... an all-time record of 1,342-1,010
Overtime Notes
... Wake Forest played its third overtime game of the season (wins over George Mason and a double-overtime win vs. Texas Tech) ... Wake and Clemson played an overtime game for the ninth time in 154 meetings (Wake was 5-3 in OT games vs. Clemson prior to tonight) ... Ouf of nine WFU-Clemson games that went into OT, four of them went into double-overtime ... Prior to tonight, Wake Forest was 46-47 all-time in overtime games, 5-4 under Skip Prosser, 15-20 all-time on the road ... Wake's overtime loss marks the third straight time the Deacons have lost a road overtime game
Miscellaneous
... Wake Forest played its seventh game this season decided by five points or less ... Wake out-rebounded its opponent for the 13th time in 15 games (the Deacons tied Richmond in rebounds and were out-rebounded by DePaul) ... Wake had 10-plus more rebounds than its opponent for the seventh time this season ... Wake Forest has made at least one three-point field goal in 440 consecutive games
Senior Justin Gray
... scored 20 points or more for the fifth time this season ... his sixth point was the 1,600th of his career (the 15th Deacon all-time to reach that plateau) ... Gray has scored in double figures in every game this season, 84 times in his career ... has made at least one three-point field goal in 64 of his last 66 games ... his second three-point field goal -- the 264th of his career -- tied him with Bobby Hurley for the 10th-most in ACC history ... his second three-point field goal attempt was the 700th of his career ... played in his 102nd career game and started for the 86th time
Senior Trent Strickland
... his eighth point was the 700th of his career ... played in his 107th career game and started for the 23rd time
Senior Eric Williams
... had more rebounds than any Deacon since Tim Duncan in Duncan's senior season of 1997 (previously, the most in the Skip Prosser era was 18 by Darius Songaila against NC State on March 2, 2002) ... his 20 rebounds were the most in the ACC this season (previously, Duke's Shelden Williams had 19 rebounds vs. Virginia Tech on Dec. 4) ... he is the first Clemson opponent to have 20 rebounds in a game since Al Young of Jacksonville on Dec. 16, 1975 ... he is the first Deacon player to have 20 points and 20 rebounds in the same game since Tim Duncan had 21 points and 23 rebounds against Virginia on Feb. 22, 1997 ... he is just the seventh different Deacon player to have a 20-20 game (players such as Dickie Hemric and Len Chappell had several 20-20 games, but Williams is just the seventh Deacon player to do so) ... pulled down a career-high number of rebounds (previously 14 vs. Florida State on Feb. 12, 2005) ... recorded his second double-double (his first since Nov. 25) of the season and the 16th of his career ... pulled down double-figure rebounds for the third time this season and the 18th time in his career ... scored 20-plus points for the fourth time this season ... Williams scored in double figures for the 14th time this season (the 11th consecutive game), and the 80th of his career ... his 14 defensive rebounds are the most by a Deacon in the Skip Prosser era (Songaila had 13 vs. NC State on March 2, 2002) ... he moved past both Josh Shoemaker and Dave Budd tonight into 17th place on Wake's all-time career rebounds list ... played in his 110th career game and started for the 102nd time -- the ninth-most career starts in Wake history
