Wake Forest Athletics
2010-11 Wake Forest Basketball Season in Review
5/2/2011 12:00:00 AM | Men's Basketball
May 2, 2011
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WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest finished its first season under head coach Jeff Bzdelik with a record of 8-24 overall and 1-15 in the ACC. Despite the subpar record, there were a number of individual and team accomplishments by the Demon Deacons worth noting.
Freshman forward Travis McKie led the team in both scoring (13.0 ppg) and rebounding (7.7 rpg), becoming the 10th player in ACC history and the fifth in school history to accomplish the feat.
McKie was named to the ACC All-Freshman Team and received Freshman All-America honors from CollegeInsider.com. He started all 32 games to tie Tim Duncan for the second-most starts by a Deacon freshman.
Senior guard Gary Clark had a breakout season in his final year on campus, averaging 10.9 points per game and leading the country with a 55.3 percent mark from 3-point range.
Sophomore guard C.J. Harris ranked in the top 10 in the ACC in three categories: free throw percentage (4th, 81.5), assists (t-7th, 3.5) and minutes played (8th, 32.4).
Junior Ty Walker and freshman Carson Desrosiers patrolled the paint on defense for the Deacons. Walker registered 79 blocks on the year and ranked second in the ACC and 20th nationally with 2.5 per game. Walker broke Tim Duncan's single-game record with 11 blocks against Marist.
Desrosiers had 52 blocks on the year, which was the second-most ever by a Deacon freshman behind only Duncan. Desrosiers ranked sixth in the ACC with 1.7 blocks per game.
As a team, Wake Forest ranked second in the ACC and 16th nationally with 5.4 blocks per game. The Deacons' 174 total blocks is the fourth-highest total in school history and just eight behind the school record of 182 set in 1997.
The Deacons were one of the best free throw shooting teams in the country, ranking second in the ACC and 32nd nationally with a mark of 74.6 percent from the line. It was the highest Wake Forest ranked in the ACC in free throw percentage since 2002-03.
The Deacons also shot well from beyond the arc, ranking fifth in the ACC at 35.9 percent.
Wake Forest featured the youngest roster in the ACC, as seven of the Deacons' 10 scholarship players on the roster were underclassmen. Bzdelik had three freshmen in the starting lineup 11 times this season, including each of the final nine games.
