Wake Forest Athletics
Friday, March 6
Raleigh, NC
7:00 PM
Wake Forest University
at
NC State
Men's Basketball Concludes Regular Season Friday at NC State
3/5/2020 2:34:00 PM | Men's Basketball
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| Date | Time | March 6, 2020 | 7:00 pm |
| Location | Raleigh, N.C. | PNC Arena |
| Television | ACC Network | WatchESPN |
| Radio | Wake Forest Sports Network | Listen |
| Stats | StatBroadcast |
| Information | @WakeMBB  | Game Notes |
DEACS MEET WOLFPACK IN REGULAR SEASON FINALE
• Wake Forest concludes the regular season with a visit to NC State
• The Deacs are ending the regular season on the road for the sixth time in the last seven years
• Tonight's game marks Wake Forest's first regular season ACC game on a Friday since hosting No. 3 Maryland on Jan. 11, 1974
AN OLD TRADITION RETURNS
• Wake Forest and NC State meet in the regular season finale for the first time since 2008
• From 1972-2008, the Deacs and Wolfpack ended the schedule against each other in 32 of 37 seasons
• Wake has a 3-0 record in regular season finales at PNC Arena, winning in 2001, 2003 and 2005
SERIES HISTORY
• NC State leads 145-106 (NC State leads 61-24 in Raleigh, 15-5 at PNC Arena)
• The Wolfpack won the first matchup of the season, 91-82, on Dec. 7 in Winston-Salem as Brandon Childress scored a career-high 30 points
• Wake Forest's 106 wins against the Wolfpack are the most against any opponent
• The Deacs last won in Raleigh in 2017 as John Collins (21 points) led Wake to a 93-88 victory
A STANDING O FOR OLIVIER
• Olivier Sarr is the reigning ACC Player of the Week after two dominant performances last week in the wins over No. 7 Duke and Notre Dame
• Sarr set a career high with 25 points in the win over Duke on 7-9 shooting from the floor and 11-14 from the line (He drew 10 fouls in the game and worked to foul out three Blue Devil post players)
• Against Notre Dame, Sarr set career highs of 30 points and 17 rebounds, becoming just the third Deacon in the last 50 years to have a 30-and-15 game in ACC play (John Collins, Rodney Rogers)
• Sarr was also named the Lute Olson National Player of the Week by CollegeInsider.com
GET TO THE LINE
• Wake Forest leads the ACC in free throw attempts (24.3 per game) and is third in free throw percentage (75.0 percent)
• The Deacs' free throw rate of 42.6% (FTA/FGA) ranks sixth nationally and is the highest for a Wake Forest team since 2014-15 (50.1)
• Olivier Sarr ranks second in the ACC with 177 free throw attempts, already more than the 106 he had in his first two seasons combined
• Sarr's 6.3 FTA/game is the highest rate of getting to the line by a Deacon since 2017 when John Collins averaged 6.7 FTA/game
• Olivier Sarr (135) and Brandon Childress (123) rank second and fourth in the ACC in free throws made this season
• 24.7% of Wake Forest's points this season have come from the line, the third highest percentage nationally
• Wake Forest went 24-of-25 from the free throw line against Long Beach State in the semifinals of the Wooden Legacy, as the 96% was the second-best single-game average in school history (min. 20 attempts), trailing only the ACC record 32-of-32 Wake had against North Carolina in 2005
• In the double overtime win over Duke on Feb. 25, Wake had 50 FTAs, their most since 1982
• Wake has recorded the season-high opponent free throw attempts for five teams (Columbia, Duke, Notre Dame, UNC Asheville, Virginia)
• The Demon Deacons have drawn a league-high 601 fouls this season
• Wake Forest has had 24 opponents foul out this season, its most since 27 in 2017-18
O CANADA!
• Freshman guard Jahcobi Neath has been playing his best basketball of the season over the last five games
• The Toronto native is averaging 10.6 points and 4.0 assists over the last five, including a career-high six assists at Miami and scoring a career-high 16 points against both Georgia Tech and Duke
UP NEXT
• The Demon Deacons will play next week in the ACC Tournament in Greensboro
• The tournament begins with two games on Tuesday and the bracket will be finalized on Saturday night following the conclusion of the UNC-Duke game
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