Wake Forest Athletics
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1/21/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Jan. 21, 2006
Wake Forest's Loss Today Gives The Deacons... ... a record of 12-6 overall, 1-4 in the ACC ... a 2-3 record on the road, including a 0-3 mark on the ACC road ... their first loss this season after leading at halftime ... a 28-23 record on the road under Skip Prosser ... a record of 36-17 in ACC play over the last four seasons combined ... a record of 25-15 in January under Skip Prosser ... a record of 39-12 over the last two seasons combined ... a record of 85-28 over the last four seasons combined ... a record of 106-41 over the last five seasons combined ... an all-time record of 94-127 all-time against NC State ... a 4-3 record against NC State at the RBC Center ... a 0-3 record this season against nationally-ranked teams ... an all-time record of 1,343-1,012
Miscellaneous ... Wake Forest commited a season-high 27 personal fouls ... Wake Forest pulled down a season-high 22 offensive rebounds ... NC State made more free throws today than any Deacon opponent has since March 6, 1971 when South Carolina made 44 free throws against the Deacons ... NC State attempted more free throws thany any Deacon opponent since Clemson put up 45 attempts in a double-overtime game on Feb. 13, 2002 ... NC State's 92 points were the most by a Deacon opponent this season ... The Deacons lost a game in which they led at the half for the first time since the West Virginia game in the 2005 NCAA Tournament ... Wake out-rebounded its opponent by double digits for the sixth time in the last eight games ... Wake Forest went to the free throw line less than the opponent for just the third time this season (Deacs are 0-3 in those games) ... 14 of Wake Forest's first 16 points were scored by four Deacon seniors ... Wake Forest has made at least one three-point field goal in 443 consecutive games ... Wake Forest fell to 0-6 when trailing with 10 minutes to play and 0-5 when trailing with five minutes to play
Senior Justin Gray ... Gray has scored in double figures in every game this season, 87 times in his career ... has made at least one three-point field goal in 67 of his last 69 games ... played in his 105th career game and started for the 89th time ... Gray's 22 field goal attempts were the most by a Deacon this season ... his 11 three-point attempts tied for the most by a Deacon this season
Senior Trent Strickland ... Strickland scored in double figures for the 12th time this season, the 30th time in his career ... made two three-point field goals in the same game for the first time since Nov. 25 vs. Appalachian State ... played in his 110th career game and started for the 25th time ... his three steals tied for the most by a Deacon this season
Senior Eric Williams ... Williams scored in double figures for the 17th time this season (the 14th consecutive game), and the 83rd of his career ... moved into 13th place on Wake's all-time career rebounds list, passing Rodney Rogers ... played in his 113th career game and started for the 105th time -- tying for the eighth-most career starts in Wake history ... had a season-high for free throws made (previously, 6 vs. DePaul)
Senior Chris Ellis ... had a career-high 11 rebounds (previously 10) ... his 11 rebounds were tied for the 7th-most rebounds by a Deacon this season ... has two double-figure rebound games this season and they have both come in the last seven days (at Maryland last Sunday and today) ... his third blocked shot (which he recorded in the first half) tied a career-high ... played in his 96th career game and made his second start of the season (the fourth start of his career) ... fouled out for the first time this season and for jjust the second time in his career
Junior Michael Drum ... scored a career-high (previously 15 points vs. Texas Tech Nov. 18) ... also made a career-high number of field goals (previously, 4) ... Drum scored in double figures for the third time -- and the first time since Nov. 21 vs. UNC-Asheville ... made his first three-point field goal since Dec. 30
Junior Kyle Visser ... his second blocked shot -- the 62nd of his career -- moved him past Vytas Danelius for the 14th-most blocks in Wake history
