
Gameday Central: Richmond
11/30/2018 10:38:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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Date | Time | December 1, 2018 | 7:30 pm |
Location | Richmond, Va.| Robins Center |
Television | NBCSN | Watch Online |
Radio | Wake Forest IMG Network | Listen |
Stats | StatBroadcast |
Information | @WakeMBB ![]() |
DEACS VISIT RICHMOND IN FIRST TRUE ROAD GAME OF THE SEASON
• Wake Forest opens its December schedule with a visit to Richmond
• The game is the Demon Deacons' first true road game of the season
• The 11th consecutive year of this matchup makes it Wake Forest's longest annual non-conference
series since playing Virginia Tech 18 consecutive years (1961-78)
SERIES HISTORY
• Wake Forest leads 42-13 (WF leads 18-9 in Richmond, 11-5 at Robins Center)
• It is the 11th straight season and 18th time in the past 19 years the teams have met
• The Deacs have won the last two meetings overall and the last two meetings in Richmond
• Last season, the Deacs won 82-53 in Winston-Salem, the largest margin of victory in the series since a 103-73 Wake Forest win in 1977-78
NON-CONFERENCE ROAD WARRIORS
• Under Danny Manning, Wake Forest has a 10-3 record in true non-conference road games
• The 10 regular-season non-conference road wins are the most by any ACC school over the last five seasons (Miami and Virginia are next highest with eight each)
• The Deacs have won their first true road game in each of the last four seasons
LAST TIME OUT
• Wake Forest downed Western Carolina 71-64 on Tuesday at the LJVM Coliseum
• Brandon Childress scored 20 points, his second consecutive 20-point game
• Jaylen Hoard had 17 points and Chaundee Brown added a season-high 14 points
• The Demon Deacons opened the game on a 21-3 run
GETTING TO THE LINE
• Wake Forest ranks sixth nationally in getting to the free throw line, with a FTA/FGA ratio of 54.0 percent (national average is 34.3 percent)
• The Deacs have 175 free throw attempts through the first six games of the season, their most since 187 through the first six games of the 2015-16 season
• 28.1 percent of Wake Forest's points this season have come from the line, the third highest percentage nationally
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
• Freshmen are three of the Deacs' top five scorers with Jaylen Hoard at 16.8 ppg, Sharone Wright, Jr. at 10.0 ppg and Isaiah Mucius at 7.8 ppg
• Wake Forest freshmen are averaging 35.5 points per game this season (46.7 percent of the team total)
• Wake Forest has 13 double figure games from freshmen this season (Hoard-6, Wright-4, Mucius-3), matching the combined total of 13 double figure games by freshmen from 2016-17 and 2017-18
UP NEXT
• Wake Forest returns home to host Charlotte on Dec. 6
• Game time is 7 p.m. and the game will air on ACC Network Extra
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