Saturday, January 5
Atlanta, GA
2:00 PM
Wake Forest University
at
Georgia Tech
Gameday Central: Georgia Tech
1/4/2019 10:43:00 AM | Men's Basketball
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| Date | Time | January 5, 2019 | 2:00 pm |
| Location | Atlanta, Ga.| McCamish Pavilion |
| Television | RSN (FS Carolinas) | WatchESPN |
| Radio | Wake Forest IMG Network | Listen |
| Stats | StatBroadcast |
| Information | @WakeMBB  | Game Notes |
DEACS OPEN ACC PLAY IN ATLANTA
• Wake Forest begins its ACC schedule with a visit to Georgia Tech, the same venue of their last regular-season ACC game in 2017-18
• The Deacs are opening conference play on the road for the fifth straight season
• Wake Forest is looking for its first true road win of the season
SERIES HISTORY
• Georgia Tech leads 42-40 (GT leads 28-9 in Atlanta, 4-0 at McCamish Pavilion)
• The home team has won the last six meetings in the series, including the teams splitting last year's series (Wake Forest won 79-62 in Winston-Salem, Georgia Tech won 64-56 in Atlanta)
• Wake Forest has lost 12 straight games in Atlanta with its last road win in the series coming in 2004
LAST TIME OUT
• Wake Forest concluded non-conference play with an 83-61 victory over Cornell on Wednesday
• Jaylen Hoard scored a career-high 23 points and matched a career-high with 15 rebounds for his second 20-and-15 game of the season
• Brandon Childress (14 points), Chaundee Brown (12 points) and Sharone Wright, Jr. (11 points) also scored in double figures
• The Demon Deacons doubled up the Big Red on the boards, having a 50-25 advantage
ACC OPENERS
• Wake Forest has lost four straight ACC openers (all on the road, three of the four were against ranked opponents)
• The Demon Deacons last won an ACC opener in 2013-14, defeating No. 19 North Carolina 73-67 at the LJVM Coliseum
• The Deacs last won an ACC opener on the road in 2006-07, a 59-58 victory at Miami
DOUBLE THE REBOUNDS, DOUBLE tHE FUN
• Wake Forest has doubled up an opponent on the boards twice this season, vs. North Carolina A&T (44-22) and Cornell (50-25)
• It is the first time since 2008-09 that the Deacs have accomplished the feat multiple times in a season
• Prior to this season, the Deacs hadn't doubled up a team on the boards since Nicholls State in 2014-15
• The +25 rebounding margin against Cornell was the largest for the Deacs since a +25 (59-34) against Texas in the opening round of the 2010 NCAA Tournament
HOARD SEES 20-15
• Jaylen Hoard is the only player in the ACC this season with a pair of 20-and-15 games
• Hoard had 22 points and 15 rebounds vs. Houston Baptist and 23 points and 15 rebounds vs. Cornell
• He is one of only four Demon Deacon freshmen to have a 20-and-15 game (Travis McKie in 2010-11, Rodney Rogers in 1990-91 and Dickie Hemric in 1951-52), joining Hemric as the only freshman Deacs to accomplish the feat multiple times
UP NEXT
• Wake Forest hosts No. 1 Duke on Jan. 8 to open its ACC home schedule
• The Blue Devils will be the first top-ranked team to visit Winston-Salem since 2006 (Duke)
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