Wake Forest Athletics
Wake Forest vs. Clemson Notes
2/22/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
Feb. 22, 2006
Wake Forest's Win Tonight Gives The Deacons...
... a record of 14-13 overall and a 2-11 mark in the ACC ... an end to their nine-game ACC losing streak ... their first win since Feb. 11 vs. Charlotte and their first ACC win since Jan. 18 vs. Georgia Tech ... a 11-6 record at home this season, including a 2-5 mark in ACC home games ... a 68-12 record at home under Skip Prosser ... an all-time record of 213-48 in Lawrence Joel Coliseum ... a 2-4 record in February this season and a 24-14 record in February under Prosser ... a record of 41-19 over the last two seasons combined ... a record of 87-35 over the last four seasons combined ... a record of 108-48 over the last five seasons combined ... a 94-51 record all-time against Clemson ... 15 consecutive wins in Joel Coliseum against Clemson ... a regular season split in the series with Clemson for just the second time since 1997-98 ... an all-time record of 1,345-1,019 ... a 14-5 record this season after leading at halftime
Overtime Notes
... Wake Forest played its fourth overtime game of the season (the Deacons entered tonight's game 2-1 in overtime games) ... Both Wake Forest-Clemson games this season went into overtime (Clemson won 74-73 in overtime on Jan. 11) ... Wake's four overtime games are the most in one season by a Deacon team since 1987 when Wake played in six OT games ... Tonight marked the 10th time Wake Forest and Clemson have played in an overtime game (Wake was 5-4 vs. Clemson in OT games entering tonight) ... Tonight's game was the 11th overtime game in five seasons under Skip Prosser (Wake was 5-5 in those games entering tonight)
Miscellaneous
... Wake Forest shot 50 percent or better for the ninth time this season ... The Deacons out-rebounded their opponent for the 19th time this season
... Wake committed a season-high number of turnovers ... Tonight marked the 399th career game as a head coach for Wake's Skip Prosser ... Wake Forest has made at least one three-point field goal in 452 consecutive games
Senior Justin Gray
... Gray has made at least one three-point field goal in 75 of his last 78 games
... scored in double figures for the 25th time this season, the 94th time in his career ... his third assist tonight was his 100th of the season -- the first time in his career he has reached 100 assists ... his second three-point attempt was his 200th of the season -- his third consecutive year of attempting at least 200 three-pointers ... played in his 113th game and started for the 97th time ... with his 26th minute, he moved past Alvis Rogers into 11th place on Wake's all-time career minutes played list
Senior Trent Strickland
... Strickland scored in double figures for the 19th time this season, the 37th time in his career ... played in his 118th career game and started for the 33rd time
Senior Eric Williams
... his fifth steal tonight gave him a career-high; it also gave him the most steals by any Deacon in a game this season ... has had two games this season when he had more than two steals -- both came against Clemson (he had 3 in the game on Jan. 11) ... Williams scored in double figures for the 26th time this season (the 23rd consecutive game) and for the 92nd time in his career ... his second point tonight was the 1,600th of his career ... his fourth assist tied a career-high ... his season-low for rebounds entering tonight was four (twice) ... played in his 122nd career game, tying for the 12th-most games played in Wake Forest history ... started for the 114th time -- the fifth-most career starts in Wake history
Senior Chris Ellis
... played in his 105th career game
Freshman Kevin Swinton
... started for the sixth time
Junior Michael Drum
... when he made his second free throw attempt in overtime, it gave him 10 consecutive free throws made -- his last miss came on Jan. 24 ... his second three-point field goal tonight gave him four three-pointers over the last two games ... had a career-high number of steals ... started for the second straight game and for the ninth time overall
Junior Kyle Visser
... his second blocked shot was his 37th of the year, tying for the 20th-most single-season blocks in Wake history
