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Wake Forest Close Perfect Homestand with Win Over Western Carolina
11/23/2025 3:46:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Junior guard/forward Mary Carter led the squad with 13 points and seven rebounds in the win as the Deacs improved to 6-0 on the season.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C – The Wake Forest women's basketball team improved to 6-0 overall with a 60-49 victory over the Western Carolina Catamounts, Sunday afternoon at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Coliseum.
This marks the best start for the program since the 2021-22 season when the Deacs started 7-0 to begin the year.
The Demon Deacons (6-0) were led by dual double-digit scoring performances from sophomore forward Grace Oliver and junior guard/forward Mary Carter, knocking back 13 points apiece. Additionally, Carter recorded seven total rebounds, just one shy of tying her season high.
Wake Forest forced the Catamounts (2-4) into 14 turnovers during Sunday's contest, forcing 10 or more takeaways in 73 of the last 77 games.
Five separate Deacs recorded four or more rebounds against the Catamounts, with sophomore forward Kennedy Moore and freshman guard Caitlyn Jones each grabbing a career-high. Jones also earned a season-high with four assists, of which led the Deacs.
Defensively, the Demon Deacons held Western Carolina without a free throw and also to zero points off turnovers and zero fast break points.
How It Happened
Standout Stats
From Gebbia
"The things that I really liked to see is our point guards played well and they had a 7-to-1 assist-turnover-ratio. We had 16 assists and just five turnovers and we limited them in so many categories including zero free throws, zero fast break points and zero points off turnovers. Madi and Caitlyn were great off the bench and provided good energy and great minutes for us. It was great to play against a zone defense to keep working against it and being in the right spot to exploit it. We need to shoot free throws better and finish in the fourth quarter especially on the defensive end of the floor. 6-0 feels great but we need to take care of ourselves the next couple of days to play three games in three days. We are going to need everyone this trip to play well down there. I am excited to continue to build on this stretch as we play away from home for the first time." - Megan Gebbia
Up Next
The Demon Deacons play their first game away from home Wednesday when the Deacs play Morgan State at Puerto Rico Shootout in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Tipoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. on FloSports ($).
This marks the best start for the program since the 2021-22 season when the Deacs started 7-0 to begin the year.
The Demon Deacons (6-0) were led by dual double-digit scoring performances from sophomore forward Grace Oliver and junior guard/forward Mary Carter, knocking back 13 points apiece. Additionally, Carter recorded seven total rebounds, just one shy of tying her season high.
Wake Forest forced the Catamounts (2-4) into 14 turnovers during Sunday's contest, forcing 10 or more takeaways in 73 of the last 77 games.
Five separate Deacs recorded four or more rebounds against the Catamounts, with sophomore forward Kennedy Moore and freshman guard Caitlyn Jones each grabbing a career-high. Jones also earned a season-high with four assists, of which led the Deacs.
Defensively, the Demon Deacons held Western Carolina without a free throw and also to zero points off turnovers and zero fast break points.
How It Happened
- Wake Forest opened the contest with back-to-back layups from sophomore forward Kennedy Moore and freshman guard Milan Brown.
- Sophomore guard Aurora Sørbye found sophomore forward Grace Oliver under the basket to make it 6-2.
- Oliver launched a three from the corner pocket to hold the Deacs' lead, 12-10.
- Freshman forward Opal Bird held a 6-0 scoring run with a layup in the paint to make it 18-13.
- The Demon Deacons led the Catamounts, 19-15 at the end of the first quarter.
- Wake Forest went on a 6-0 run to start the second.
- Junior guard Madisyn Jordan drained a three from the far corner, followed soon after by junior guard/forward Mary Carter nailing a bucket of her own.
- Carter extended the Demon Deacons' lead to 31-19 with a jumper in the paint, with less than three minutes remaining in the half.
- Freshman guard Caitlyn Jones found Moore under the basket for a layup to make it 33-19.
- Wake Forest led Western Carolina, 35-21 at the end of the first half.
- Carter reached double-digits with a three out of the gate to begin the third quarter offense.
- The Rocklin, Calif.-native connected with Oliver in the paint to make it 42-25.
- Following a Catamount turnover, Jones took it away and laid it in off the board to close out the quarter, 48-31.
- Graduate forward Emily Johns worked a layup to start scoring in the final stretch.
- Jordan knocked back a three-point jumper after a Western Carolina rebound to hold Wake Forest's advantage, 55-43.
- The Demon Deacon defense stood strong in the closing minutes of the game, holding the Cats to over a three-minute scoring drought in the last five minutes of the game.
- With a minute remaining, Carter drained three to make it 60-49.
Standout Stats
- The Demon Deacons are now 6-0 for the first time since the 2021-2022 season (7-0).
- Wake Forest tallied 16 total assists on the night on 24 made baskets (67 percent). In six games this season, the Demon Deacons have totaled 104 assists on 154 field goals (67.5 percent) which would mark the highest percentage in the Megan Gebbia era.
- The Deacs did an excellent job of moving the ball last season, as they assisted on 394 of 667 made baskets this season (59.1 pct.). This was the highest assist percentage in the Gebbia era and the assist percentage ranks in the top 70 percent in the nation according to HerHoopStats.
- In 2023-24, the Deacs assisted 404 of 694 made field goals (58.2 percent).
- Junior guard/forward Mary Carter paced the Demon Deacons' offense, with a team-high seven rebounds, 13 points, an assist and a steal in the win.
- Carter has now finished with double-digit points in five of the six games this season.
- Sophomore forward Grace Oliver continued her hot start to the season, tying Carter for a team-high 13 points on 6-of-10 shooting from the field while also adding two steals and an assist in the victory.
- Oliver now leads the team with 81 total points on the year (13.5 PPG) and is doing so on an incredibly efficient .638 shooting.
- Freshman guard Caitlyn Jones grabbed a season-high five rebounds and four assists, providing a sound defensive showing for the Deacs.
- Junior forward Madisyn Jordan finished with her best game of the season, providing eight points and four rebounds while also knocking down a pair of threes.
- She set season highs in minutes played, points and rebounds.
From Gebbia
"The things that I really liked to see is our point guards played well and they had a 7-to-1 assist-turnover-ratio. We had 16 assists and just five turnovers and we limited them in so many categories including zero free throws, zero fast break points and zero points off turnovers. Madi and Caitlyn were great off the bench and provided good energy and great minutes for us. It was great to play against a zone defense to keep working against it and being in the right spot to exploit it. We need to shoot free throws better and finish in the fourth quarter especially on the defensive end of the floor. 6-0 feels great but we need to take care of ourselves the next couple of days to play three games in three days. We are going to need everyone this trip to play well down there. I am excited to continue to build on this stretch as we play away from home for the first time." - Megan Gebbia
Up Next
The Demon Deacons play their first game away from home Wednesday when the Deacs play Morgan State at Puerto Rico Shootout in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Tipoff is scheduled for 3 p.m. on FloSports ($).
Team Stats
WCU
WF
FG%
.323
.407
3FG%
.391
.292
FT%
.000
.417
RB
39
36
TO
14
5
STL
2
6
Game Leaders
Pts
13
FGM
6
3FGM
1
FTM
0
Pts
13
FGM
5
3FGM
3
FTM
0
Pts
8
FGM
3
3FGM
2
FTM
0
Pts
7
FGM
3
3FGM
0
FTM
1
Players Mentioned
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