Tuesday, January 31
Durham, NC
7 p.m.
Wake Forest University
14-9,6-6ACC
73
at
75
Duke
16-6,7-4ACC
1
2
F
Wake Forest
34
39
73
Duke
41
34
75
Appleby Leads Deacs in Hard-Fought Matchup Against Blue Devils
1/31/2023 10:26:00 PM | Men's Basketball
Appleby finished in double figures for the 14th-straight game.
DURHAM, N.C. – Stepping into a full house in Cameron Indoor Stadium on Tuesday evening (Jan. 31), the Wake Forest men's basketball team gave the host Duke Blue Devils a steady fight before narrowly falling, 75-73.
The Demon Deacons (14-9, 6-6) moved to 1-1 on the year versus Duke, having beaten its Big Four foe back on Dec. 20 in Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
On the scoring end, Tyree Appleby came out of the gate aggressive, leading the Demon Deacons with a game-high 27 points. The graduate guard's performance included his eighth showing of 20 or more points this season, while also being the 14th straight game in which he has totaled double figures in scoring. Appleby added a team-high five rebounds and four assists to his evening line.
Damari Monsanto and Andrew Carr chipped in 14 and 11 points, respectively. The latter grabbed five rebounds during the night.
Bobi Klintman gave a spark as a reserve, finishing with eight points and four rebounds on 3-of-4 shooting while playing a career-high 33 minutes.
As a group, the Deacs had their best night at the free-throw line thus far in 2022-23, making all but one of their attempts (16-of-17) for a clip that was just over 94 percent.
Wake Forest has now registered six consecutive games of less than 10 turnovers – Duke committed 14 on Tuesday night.
Wake Forest heads north this weekend for the first of two matchups against the Notre Dame Irish Saturday afternoon (Feb. 4). Tipoff is set for 1 p.m. ET in Purcell Pavilion and the game will air live on Regional Bally Sports networks.
Standout Stats
How It Happened
Coach's Comments
"Congrats to Jon and his team. That's not the same team we played in December. They've grown up a lot. Dereck Lively makes a big difference, I knew he would as a rim protector. Filipowski is a really good player, he's hard to guard because he plays inside-out. Jeremy played like we've seen Jeremy play last year at this time when he led the team to the Final Four, he played with great poise. We played drop-ball screen coverage this time, forced him to shoot tough twos and he made several of those, so credit to him.
I know it's hard to be a first-year coach, especially here, I couldn't even imagine and then have the adversity that he's had with injuries, illnesses and things. I mean, you have to give him a lot of credit. I don't think I've ever played in a more energized place than this. I hate coming here and losing by two twice, but what a great atmosphere.
In the first half, we put them on the line too much. They shot as many free throws in the first half as they did in our entire game last time. We fouled too much. We got beat on the glass. We weren't making shots. Bobi Klintman picked us up, made a couple of threes, but Duke was better in the middle eight and that's kind of when they extended it. Like last year, we went to our big lineup with Ty, Damari, Bobi, Andrew and DB. We started to play without fouling, we turned them over, we got in transition a little bit and started to make some shots. It's gonna be really hard for us to win here, or anywhere, when we have three guys shooting over 40 percent from three in the league that go 4-for-22 from three and I think we got some pretty good looks. Some pretty critical defensive plays down the stretch just hurt us. Those things can't happen. We can't get over a hump that way. We've lost three games in a row by two. There's no moral victories in this. It's a tough loss, but credit to Duke." - head coach Steve Forbes
Upcoming
The Demon Deacons (14-9, 6-6) moved to 1-1 on the year versus Duke, having beaten its Big Four foe back on Dec. 20 in Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
On the scoring end, Tyree Appleby came out of the gate aggressive, leading the Demon Deacons with a game-high 27 points. The graduate guard's performance included his eighth showing of 20 or more points this season, while also being the 14th straight game in which he has totaled double figures in scoring. Appleby added a team-high five rebounds and four assists to his evening line.
Damari Monsanto and Andrew Carr chipped in 14 and 11 points, respectively. The latter grabbed five rebounds during the night.
Bobi Klintman gave a spark as a reserve, finishing with eight points and four rebounds on 3-of-4 shooting while playing a career-high 33 minutes.
As a group, the Deacs had their best night at the free-throw line thus far in 2022-23, making all but one of their attempts (16-of-17) for a clip that was just over 94 percent.
Wake Forest has now registered six consecutive games of less than 10 turnovers – Duke committed 14 on Tuesday night.
Wake Forest heads north this weekend for the first of two matchups against the Notre Dame Irish Saturday afternoon (Feb. 4). Tipoff is set for 1 p.m. ET in Purcell Pavilion and the game will air live on Regional Bally Sports networks.
Standout Stats
- Wake Forest pieced together its best, collective performance of the year from the free-throw line, going 16-of-17 (94.1 percent).
- Tyree Appleby led his squad with a game-high 27 points, adding five rebounds and four assists.
- His night included the eighth season showing of 20 or more points.
- Appleby has also now reached double-figures in scoring through 14 consecutive games.
- Wake Forest is on a six-game streak of committing less than 10 turnovers.
- Tuesday's game was the Deacons' seventh such total showing of the year.
How It Happened
- Hildreth opened the scoring at the 19:15 mark as he blew by his defender for an open layup.
- Carr knocked down the Deacs' first triple of the contest off an assist from Klintman to make it 8-5 Duke with 16:51 remaining in the first half.
- Monsanto connected on a catch-and-shoot three for his first points of the night before Klintman made one of his own and brought Wake Forest to within a point with 12:40 to go in the half.
- Carr and Marsh picked up assists on the three-pointers.
- Marsh tied the game at 13-13 with a dunk off an inbound pass from Appleby out of the under-12 media timeout.
- The Deacs held Duke to zero field goals in 2:52 during the 8-1 run to level the game.
- Appleby went on a personal 8-0 run and gave Wake Forest a 21-18 lead with 8:43 remaining.
- He got on the board with a layup through contact and converted the and-one opportunity.
- Klintman recorded a steal and found Appleby in the corner for a wide-open three before the graduate guard grabbed a steal of his own and took it coast-to-coast for a dunk and forced Duke into a timeout.
- Klintman made his second triple of the game and sent the Deacs into the under-eight media timeout with a 24-23 advantage.
- Wake Forest went into the timeout having made seven of its last 11 field goals.
- Monsanto earned his way to the line and went 2-for-2 as the Deacs regained the lead with 6:18 to go in the first half.
- Appleby reached double-digits with a driving layup at the 4:46 mark.
- Hildreth went 2-for-2 from the charity stripe just before the under-four media timeout and cut it to 32-30.
- The sophomore guard came back on the next possession with a driving layup.
- Appleby kept Wake Forest perfect from the line as he went 2-for-2 and closed out the first half scoring for the Deacs.
- Wake Forest trailed Duke, 34-41, at half.
- Appleby led the Deacs with 12 points, three rebounds and an assist.
- Hildreth and Klintman finished the first half with six points apiece.
- The Deacs won the first half turnover battle, 8-4.
- Appleby scored the first Wake Forest points of the second half with a driving layup.
- The graduate guard cut the deficit to 10 with a high two-point jumper at the 15:03 mark.
- Carr intercepted a pass in the paint which led to an open Hildreth three in the corner after a kick-out from Appleby.
- Carr made it 43-53 as he went 2-for-2 from the line with 12:22 remaining.
- Appleby found Carr under the basket off an inbound pass for a layup to cut the deficit to single digits.
- A pair of free throws from Carr cut it to 49-55 with 10:20 to go.
- Bradford picked up his first points of the night with a put-back dunk at the 7:33 mark.
- Monsanto fought through contact for a driving layup before he completed the three-point play out of the under-eight media timeout.
- Appleby reached the 20-point mark with a couple of free throws with 5:09 remaining.
- Monsanto cut the deficit to nine with a three-pointer at the 4:37 mark.
- Appleby found Carr for an alley-oop slam as Wake Forest made it 63-70 with 2:55 left.
- Monsanto made it a two-possession game with his third triple of the contest.
- Appleby continued the late 12-2 run with a driving layup as the Deacs trailed by just four with 1:23 remaining.
- The Deacs made six of their last seven shots during the run.
- Appleby and Klintman made consecutive layups to cut it to a five-point game before the graduate guard closed out the scoring with a deep three-pointer.
- Despite the late surge, Wake Forest fell to Duke, 73-75.
Coach's Comments
"Congrats to Jon and his team. That's not the same team we played in December. They've grown up a lot. Dereck Lively makes a big difference, I knew he would as a rim protector. Filipowski is a really good player, he's hard to guard because he plays inside-out. Jeremy played like we've seen Jeremy play last year at this time when he led the team to the Final Four, he played with great poise. We played drop-ball screen coverage this time, forced him to shoot tough twos and he made several of those, so credit to him.
I know it's hard to be a first-year coach, especially here, I couldn't even imagine and then have the adversity that he's had with injuries, illnesses and things. I mean, you have to give him a lot of credit. I don't think I've ever played in a more energized place than this. I hate coming here and losing by two twice, but what a great atmosphere.
In the first half, we put them on the line too much. They shot as many free throws in the first half as they did in our entire game last time. We fouled too much. We got beat on the glass. We weren't making shots. Bobi Klintman picked us up, made a couple of threes, but Duke was better in the middle eight and that's kind of when they extended it. Like last year, we went to our big lineup with Ty, Damari, Bobi, Andrew and DB. We started to play without fouling, we turned them over, we got in transition a little bit and started to make some shots. It's gonna be really hard for us to win here, or anywhere, when we have three guys shooting over 40 percent from three in the league that go 4-for-22 from three and I think we got some pretty good looks. Some pretty critical defensive plays down the stretch just hurt us. Those things can't happen. We can't get over a hump that way. We've lost three games in a row by two. There's no moral victories in this. It's a tough loss, but credit to Duke." - head coach Steve Forbes
Upcoming
- Saturday, February 4 - at Notre Dame - 1 p.m. // Regional Bally Sports Networks
- Tuesday, Feb. 7 - vs North Carolina - 7 p.m. // ESPN/ESPN2
- Saturday, Feb. 11 - vs Georgia Tech - 5 p.m. // ACC Network
Team Stats
WF
DU
FG%
.375
.500
3FG%
.290
.353
FT%
.941
.750
RB
32
39
TO
9
14
STL
7
4
Game Leaders
Scoring
Pts
27
FGM
9
3FGM
2
FTM
7
Pts
14
FGM
4
3FGM
3
FTM
3
Pts
11
FGM
3
3FGM
1
FTM
4
Pts
9
FGM
3
3FGM
1
FTM
2
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