Thursday, January 15
Winston-Salem, N.C.
6 p.m.
Wake Forest University
12-7,2-5ACC
77
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95
NC State
13-5,6-1ACC
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NC State
23
20
32
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Wake Forest
33
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Demon Deacons Score ACC High 77 Points in Loss to NC State
1/15/2026 8:37:00 PM | Women's Basketball
Wake Forest tied a program-best with 33 points in the first quarter while having five players finish in double figures scoring.
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. – In spite of posting its best offensive performance in conference play, the Wake Forest women's basketball team dropped a home contest, 95-77 to the NC State Wolfpack, Thursday night at LVJM Coliseum.
The Demon Deacons (12-7, 2-5 ACC) came out of the gates with a fury, as they tied the most points scored in a quarter in program history, with 33 against the Wolfpack (12-6, 6-1 ACC). The total also marked the best quarter so far this season, surpassing the 27 points posted against Morgan State and NC Central.
Additionally, the Deacs had its best three-point performance of the season, knocking down a season-high 12 total threes with contributions from five different Demon Deacons.
Wake Forest's offense saw five Deacs in the double digits, with junior guard/forward Mary Carter totaling the team-high of 15 points, seven rebounds and shooting 3-of-5 from the three. Freshman Grace Galbavy posted a career-high 11 points, with a perfect 3-of-3 shooting from beyond the arc.
Continuing her dominance in the field goal percentage, sophomore forward Grace Oliver went 6-of-10 from the field with 14 points and five rebounds. The Norwell, Mass.-native leads the ACC with a .609 percentage across 19 games and ranks among the top-10 nationally.
How It Happened
"I loved our effort out there today. I'm not satisfied with losing but there are a lot of positives out of this game. Grace Galbavy came in and didn't miss. She's been doing this in practice and glad it came in a game. We came out ready to go with a program record 33 points. I am proud of how we came out, especially coming off a long road trip to the west coast. We had five in double digits. This is one of the best teams in the league and we played with them for 40 minutes. We need to keep shooting like that. Just have to clean up the glass better and continue to level up into a big one on the road on Sunday. We are ready to come back tomorrow to get prepared for Clemson." - Megan Gebbia
Up Next
Wake Forest heads back on the road to face the Clemson Tigers at Littlejohn Coliseum for a Sunday morning matchup.
Tipoff is scheduled for 12 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.
The Demon Deacons (12-7, 2-5 ACC) came out of the gates with a fury, as they tied the most points scored in a quarter in program history, with 33 against the Wolfpack (12-6, 6-1 ACC). The total also marked the best quarter so far this season, surpassing the 27 points posted against Morgan State and NC Central.
Additionally, the Deacs had its best three-point performance of the season, knocking down a season-high 12 total threes with contributions from five different Demon Deacons.
Wake Forest's offense saw five Deacs in the double digits, with junior guard/forward Mary Carter totaling the team-high of 15 points, seven rebounds and shooting 3-of-5 from the three. Freshman Grace Galbavy posted a career-high 11 points, with a perfect 3-of-3 shooting from beyond the arc.
Continuing her dominance in the field goal percentage, sophomore forward Grace Oliver went 6-of-10 from the field with 14 points and five rebounds. The Norwell, Mass.-native leads the ACC with a .609 percentage across 19 games and ranks among the top-10 nationally.
How It Happened
- Action remained neck and neck, as teams exchanged the lead through the first five minutes of the game.
- Sophomore guard Aurora Sørbye made it 18-15 Deacs' as she drained her second bucket of the night from beyond the arc.
- Three from sophomore forward Grace Oliver at the 4:14 mark began a 10-0 run for the Demon Deacons.
- Junior guard/forward Mary Carter extended the lead with a soaring three point jumper to make it 27-19.
- Freshman guard Caitlyn Jones wrapped the run with a perfect trip to the charity stripe/
- The Deacs held a ten-point lead after the first quarter, leading NC State 33-23.
- Freshman forward Opal Bird connected with Oliver under the net to retake the Deacs' double-digit lead.
- Wake Forest worked a 9-0 scoring run at 8:54 with a layup from freshman guard Milan Brown.
- The Deacs went up 40-27 as Carter stayed perfect from three with her shot from downtown.
- Brown took advantage of an NC State turnover with a layup to take a 15-point lead.
- Fresh off the bench, freshman guard Grace Galbavy pushed the Deacs to 44-34 with two in the paint.
- Galbavy followed her first points of the night as she drained three with 1:22 to go.
- The Demon Deacons led the Pack, 49-43 at the half.
- NC State grabbed the lead from the Deacs, but Wake Forest continued to fight its way back.
- Oliver brought the game back within a basket three minutes into the third quarter.
- With 4:46 left in the third quarter, Brown made an and-one as the Demon Deacons continued to battle the Pack's offense.
- Jones fought her way up to the basket for two in the paint at the 2:20 mark.
- Sørbye and Jones each grabbed two more buckets in the closing moments of the third,
- The Pack led the Demon Deacons 75-62 to begin the fourth quarter.
- A turnaround three from Sørbye launched a 15-2 scoring stretch for the Deacs, as they closed in on the 89-77 Wolfpack lead.
- Galbavy hit a career-high with back-to-back buckets from downtown.
- The Demon Deacons were unable to make the comeback, as they fell to the Pack, 95-77.
- Knocking down a season-best 12 threes, the Deacs marked its best three-point performance of the season, going 12-for-25 from downtown.
- Over the last six games, the Demon Deacons have three double-digit three-point performances coming against Gardner-Webb, Pitt and NC State.
- During that stretch, Wake Forest is averaging 7.83 threes made per game and the 47 threes made have accounted for 38.8 percent of the threes made for the entire season.
- Over the last six games, the Demon Deacons have three double-digit three-point performances coming against Gardner-Webb, Pitt and NC State.
- Junior guard/forward Mary Carter led the Wake Forest offense with 15 points and seven rebounds, shooting 6-of-11 from the field and tallying three 3FGs.
- Totaling 14 points and five rebounds, sophomore forward Grace Oliver continued her impressive offensive performances for the Demon Deacons against the Wolfpack.
- Oliver leads the conference with a .609 field goal percentage and ranks 10th in the country.
- In the best night of her career, freshman guard Grace Galbavy totaled 11 points in 11 minutes, and went 4-for-4, including 3-for-3 from beyond the arc.
"I loved our effort out there today. I'm not satisfied with losing but there are a lot of positives out of this game. Grace Galbavy came in and didn't miss. She's been doing this in practice and glad it came in a game. We came out ready to go with a program record 33 points. I am proud of how we came out, especially coming off a long road trip to the west coast. We had five in double digits. This is one of the best teams in the league and we played with them for 40 minutes. We need to keep shooting like that. Just have to clean up the glass better and continue to level up into a big one on the road on Sunday. We are ready to come back tomorrow to get prepared for Clemson." - Megan Gebbia
Up Next
Wake Forest heads back on the road to face the Clemson Tigers at Littlejohn Coliseum for a Sunday morning matchup.
Tipoff is scheduled for 12 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.
Team Stats
NCSU
WF
FG%
.515
.517
3FG%
.379
.480
FT%
.824
1.000
RB
42
21
TO
8
11
STL
7
3
Game Leaders
Pts
15
FGM
6
3FGM
3
FTM
0
Pts
14
FGM
6
3FGM
2
FTM
0
Pts
12
FGM
5
3FGM
0
FTM
2
Pts
11
FGM
4
3FGM
3
FTM
0
Players Mentioned
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