
Gameday Central: Davidson
12/16/2018 12:11:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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Date | Time | December 17, 2018 | 7:00 pm |
Location | Winston-Salem, N.C. | LJVM Coliseum |
Television | ESPNU | WatchESPN |
Radio | Wake Forest IMG Network | Listen |
Stats | StatBroadcast |
Tickets | $15-30 | Buy Online |
Information | @WakeMBB ![]() |
PROMOTIONS
• Wake Forest Faculty/Staff Appreciation Night - Free admission and T-shirts for faculty, staff and their families
(Tickets will be distributed beginning at 5:30 p.m. at tables marked "Faculty/Staff" inside the East Lobby of the Coliseum. Faculty and staff members may come to the tables and show their Wake Forest ID card to request the number of tickets needed for their families.)
DEACS RETURN FROM EXAM BREAK TO HOST DAVIDSON
• Wake Forest returns from an 11-day exam break to host Davidson
• It is the first meeting between the schools in 19 seasons after they played regularly from 1952-2000
SERIES HISTORY
• Wake Forest leads 61-23 (WF leads 30-7 at home, 5-0 at LJVM Coliseum)
• The teams played 51 times between 1952-2000, but tonight's game is the first meeting in 19 seasons
• The Wildcats won the last meeting, 54-49 in overtime at Davidson in 1999-00, to snap a Wake Forest 19-game win streak in the series
• In the last meeting at the LJVM Coliseum, the Deacs posted a 59-58 victory in 1998-99
• Wake Forest has won the last 12 meetings in Winston-Salem, with Davidson's last road win in the series coming in 1974
GOING LOCAL
• Wake Forest is playing five non-conference games against teams from North Carolina this season, including tonight's matchup with Davidson
• The Deacs have already played North Carolina A&T, Western Carolina and Charlotte, and will host Gardner-Webb later this season
• The five non-conference in-state opponents are the most the Deacs have had in a season since playing six in 2009-10
LAST TIME OUT
• Wake Forest recorded its largest margin of victory this season, downing Charlotte 80-56
• Isaiah Mucius scored 16 points to lead the Demon Deacons
• Olivier Sarr scored a career-high 14 points and matched a career-high of nine rebounds
• Chaundee Brown (14), Brandon Childress (13) and Jaylen Hoard (12) also scored in double figures
THE KIDS ARE ALRIGHT
• Freshmen are three of the Deacs' top five scorers with Jaylen Hoard at 15.0 ppg, Isaiah Mucius at 10.0 ppg and Sharone Wright, Jr. at 8.5 ppg
• Wake Forest freshmen are averaging 34.6 points per game this season (45.4 percent of the team total)
• Wake Forest has 17 double figure games from freshmen this season (Hoard-8, Mucius-5, Wright-4), already surpassing the combined total of 13 double figure games by freshmen in 2016-17 and 2017-18
UP NEXT
• Wake Forest plays its first ranked opponent of the season on Saturday with a visit to No. 3 Tennessee
• It will be the highest ranked non-conference opponent for the Deacs since playing No. 3 Villanova in the 2016 Charleston Classic
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