Wake Forest Athletics
Wake Forest vs. NC State Notes
3/4/2006 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
March 4, 2006
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Wake Forest's Win Today Gives The Deacons...
... a final regulr season record of 15-15 overall and a 3-13 mark in the ACC ... their most ACC losses since going 0-14 in 1986 ... an 12-6 record at home, including a 3-5 mark at home against ACC opponents ... a 69-12 record at home in five seasons under Skip Prosser ... a 214-48 record all-time at Joel Coliseum ... a 1-7 record this season against nationally-ranked teams and their first win against a ranked team since beating No. 4 Duke on Feb. 2, 2005 ... a 1-0 record in March this season, and a 14-10 record in March under Prosser ... a record of 42-21 over the last two seasons combined ... a record of 88-37 over the last four seasons combined -- the fifth-most wins over a four-year span in school history ... a record of 109-50 over the last five seasons combined ... an all-time record of 95-126 against NC State ... a 14-3 record against the Wolfpack in Joel Coliseum ... an all-time record of 1,346-1,021 ... a 15-5 record this season when leading at halftime
For Starters
Fourth-year walk-on John Buck made his first career start today on Senior Day... Buck's start means that the Deacons have used 10 different starting lineups this season, which ties for the second-most different starting fives in one season in Wake history... the 1998-99 team used a school record 11 different starting lineups... Eric Williams is the only Deacon to start all 30 games this season.
Miscellaneous
... Wake's margin of victory (13) was its largest against NC State since beating the Wolfpack by 15 in 2003 ... Wake out-rebounded its opponent for the 20th time this season ... The Deacons recorded a double-digit rebound margin for the 11th time this season ... Wake held its opponent to less than 40 percent shooting for the 11th time this season ... Wake Forest has made at least one three-point field goal in 455 consecutive games
Senior Justin Gray
... scored in double figures for the 28th time this season, the 97th time in his career ... Gray has made at least one three-point field goal in 78 of his last 81 games ... played in his 116th game and started for the 100th time -- tying for the 10th-most starts in Wake Forest history ... moved into eighth place on Wake's all-time career minutes played list, passing Josh Howard ... his first three-point attempt -- his 218th of the season -- gave him the seventh-most single-season three-point attempts in Wake history ... his eighth field goal attempt -- the 1,454th of his career -- moved him past Randolph Childress into seventh place on Wake's all-time career attempts list ... his third three-point field goal -- his 86th of the season -- moved him past Robert O'Kelley for the sixth-most single-season three-pointers in Wake history
Senior Trent Strickland
... made at least two three-point field goals in a game for the 11th time this season ... his second three-point field goal gave him 25 three-pointers over the last 13 games ... played in his 122nd career game, which ranks 13th in Wake history, and started for the 35th time
Senior Eric Williams
... his seventh field goal -- the 649th of his career -- moved him past Randolph Childress into 10th place on Wake's all-time field goals list ... grabbed double-digit rebounds for the 10th time this season and the 25th time in his career ... recorded his ninth double-double of the season and the 23rd double-double of his career, tying for the eighth-most career double-doubles in Wake history ... earned his eighth double-double over the last 16 games ... his fifth rebound -- the 814th of hs career -- moved him past Darius Songaila into ninth place on Wake's all-time career rebounds list ... Williams scored in double figures for the 26th consecutive game, the 29th time overall this season and the 95th time in his career ... played in his 125th career game -- tying for the 10th-most games played in Wake Forest history ... started for the 117th time -- passing Frank Johnson for the fourth-most career starts in Wake history ... scored 20 points for the seventh time this season ... had 20 points and 10 rebounds in the same game for the eighth time in his career
Senior Chris Ellis
... Ellis scored in double figures for the fourth time this season (the first time since Jan. 15) and the 10th time in his career ... had a career-high number of field goal attempts ... tied a career-high for field goals made ... tied a season-high with 11 points ... played in his 108th career game and started for the eighth time
Freshman Cameron Stanley
... Stanley scored in double figures for the second straight game -- the first two double-figure scoring games of his career ... the two highest-scoring games of his career have come in the last two games (he scored 10 points at Boston College Tuesday) ... made his sixth three-point field goal of the season -- his fifth since Feb. 8th
Junior Kyle Visser
... had more rebounds in the first half (5) than he did in any game since Dec. 30th
