Deacons Ready For Challenge At Delaware

Nov. 14, 2013

After winning its home-opener, Wake Forest heads back out on the road to take on CAA foe Delaware this Friday.
The game is set to tip off at 8:00 p.m., at the Bob Carpenter Center.

Last Time Out

Junior forward Dearica Hamby scored a career-high 28 points and grabbed a career-high 17 rebounds to lead Wake Forest to a 73-65 victory over Campbell.
Hamby bested her career-highs of 25 points and 13 rebounds which came against Campbell last season.
Point guard Chelsea Douglas made four three-pointers and finished with 22 points and two assists.
Freshmen Ataijah Taylor and Jill Brunori each had solid games as Taylor scored 10 points and had four rebounds while Brunori chipped-in with seven points and 10 boards.
The Deacs used a 12-1 run at the end of the first half to build a 36-23 lead at the break and would eventually push the lead to 18 points early in the second half.
But a full court press and hot shooting from the outside brought the Camels to within two on a couple occasions. Thanks to big buckets from Hamby and Douglas, the Deacs were able to hang on down the stretch.

Wake Forest Storylines

Senior Chelsea Douglas is the top-returning scoring point guard in the ACC and she had a great start to the season. She is currently 16th in school history with 1,182 career points and also 4th with 178 career three-pointers.
Douglas and Dearica Hamby have both scored over 20 points in each of the first two games. This is the first time in school-history that teammates have each scored 20 or more points in the first two games of a season.
No single player has ever scored 20 points in the first three games of a season.

The opposition

Delaware has started the season 1-1 with a win at Rhode Island and a loss at home to Temple.
The Blue Hens are a young team, with eight newcomers to the roster and just one returning starter.
Kelsey Buchanan leads the team in scoring at 14.0 points per game and she is grabbing 7.5 rebounds per contest. She also has started the season 14-of-17 from the free throw line.

Series History

This will be just the third meeting all-time and the first in Newark.
The teams have split the first two meetings with Delaware winning the most recent matchup 73-57 in Winston-Salem in 2011.

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