Wake Forest Athletics
Women's Basketball Game Notes - Wake Forest vs. Duke
3/3/2011 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
March 3, 2011
Wake Forest will take on top-seeded Duke in the quarterfinals of the ACC Tournament on Friday afternoon. Tip off is set for 3 p.m. at the Greensboro Coliseum. The game can be seen on the Regional Sports Network and heard on the Wake Forest Sports Network from IMG College.
The Demon Deacons are coming off a 74-68 victory over No. 8-seed Virginia in the opening round. The win avenged an earlier 27-point defeat at the hands of the Cavaliers and it marked the third-straight season that Wake has won an opening round game in the tournament.
Senior Brittany Waters recorded her third-straight double-double in the victory, scoring a game-high 21 points and pulling down 11 rebounds. The Orlando, Fla., native also dished-out five assists and had a pair of blocks. Over the last three games, Waters is averaging 27 points and 11.3 rebounds per contest.
Sophomore center Sandra Garcia scored 16 points on 8-of-11 shooting against Virginia. She has reached double-figures in four of the last five games and has made 17 of her last 20 shots from the floor.
Fellow sophomores Lakevia Boykin and Mykala Walker also scored in double-figures against the Hoos. Boykin scored 13 points to go along with five rebounds and a career-high tying four steals, while Walker was 4-of-7 from the floor and finished with a season-high 12 points.
For the first time in school-history, Wake Forest has won a game in the ACC Tournament in three-straight years. The next record the Deacs are eyeing on Friday will be multiple wins in the same tournament. Wake has now won 11 games in its 34 appearances but it still searching for its first pair of back-to-back victories.
Duke comes into the tournament as the No. 1-seed for the second-straight season. The Blue Devils won five out of their last five games to end the regular season, including a 66-58 victory over arch-rival North Carolina last Sunday.
The Deacons and Blue Devils are meeting for the ninth time in the ACC Tournament. Duke holds a 6-2 edge in the previous eight meetings and has won 34-straight games between the two schools overall.
Next Up...
The winner of the Wake Forest-Duke game will take on the winner of the Maryland-Georgia Tech game on Saturday. That game is slated to begin at 1 p.m. The Deacons dropped their regular season meetings to both Maryland and Georgia Tech.
