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Sørbye Hits Career-High, Oliver Records Double-Double in Road Loss at Clemson
1/18/2026 3:21:00 PM | Women's Basketball
The Deacs shot .500 percent from beyond the arc in its loss to the Tigers and had double-digit threes for the fourth time in the last seven games.
CLEMSON, S.C. – Despite outstanding offensive performances from sophomores Aurora Sørbye and Grace Oliver, the Wake Forest women's basketball team fell on the road in overtime, 78-71, to the Clemson Tigers, Sunday afternoon at Littlejohn Coliseum.
The Demon Deacons (12-8, 2-6 ACC) were dominant from downtown, with its best three-point percentage performance of the season, going 10-of-20. Sørbye dominated from three, with 12 of her career-best 16 points coming from beyond the arc.
Over the last seven games, the Demon Deacons have four double-digit three-point performances coming against Gardner-Webb, Pitt, NC State and Clemson (13-6, 4-3 ACC). During that stretch, Wake Forest is averaging 8.14 threes made per game and the 57 threes made have accounted for 43.5 percent of the threes made for the entire season. Additionally, the Deacs are shooting at a high clip during that seven-game stretch, knocking down 57-of-127 3FG (44.9 pct.)
Oliver recorded her first double-double and second of her career of the season with 16 points and 11 rebounds. The forward's first of her career came against the Houston Cougars on Feb. 15, 2025 where she totaled 16 points and 14 rebounds.
The Demon Deacons had another excellent game in the paint, with 36 points posted inside, while allowing The Tigers to score just 24, a 12-point deficit. Across 20 games, the Deacs have totaled 630 points in the paint (31.5 per game).
How It Happened
"This is a tough one to swallow. We played 36 good minutes of basketball but we didn't execute down the stretch to close this one out. We had some defensive mental mistakes in overtime that cost us. In regulation, we need to find a way to score the basketball and we can't have a stretch of five minutes without scoring. That includes making our shots at the free throw line and turning the ball over in key situations. We need to understand that we have to play 40 minutes and this is a hard learning lesson. This one will sit with us for a bit because of how close we were to getting a tough road win. Now we have to get back and hopefully this is the point we look back on as the turning point of the season. The bye comes at the right time to get these things fixed." - Megan Gebbia
Up Next
The Demon Deacons are off until Sunday when the Demon Deacons return home for the annual Play 4 Kay game against Virginia Tech.
Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.
The Demon Deacons (12-8, 2-6 ACC) were dominant from downtown, with its best three-point percentage performance of the season, going 10-of-20. Sørbye dominated from three, with 12 of her career-best 16 points coming from beyond the arc.
Over the last seven games, the Demon Deacons have four double-digit three-point performances coming against Gardner-Webb, Pitt, NC State and Clemson (13-6, 4-3 ACC). During that stretch, Wake Forest is averaging 8.14 threes made per game and the 57 threes made have accounted for 43.5 percent of the threes made for the entire season. Additionally, the Deacs are shooting at a high clip during that seven-game stretch, knocking down 57-of-127 3FG (44.9 pct.)
Oliver recorded her first double-double and second of her career of the season with 16 points and 11 rebounds. The forward's first of her career came against the Houston Cougars on Feb. 15, 2025 where she totaled 16 points and 14 rebounds.
The Demon Deacons had another excellent game in the paint, with 36 points posted inside, while allowing The Tigers to score just 24, a 12-point deficit. Across 20 games, the Deacs have totaled 630 points in the paint (31.5 per game).
How It Happened
- Wake Forest took an early lead over Clemon, posting a 7-3 stretch to begin.
- A layup in the paint from sophomore forward Grace Oliver started things off for the Deacs, and a three from junior guard/forward Mary Carter made it 5-0.
- Oliver put up another two in the paint to extend the lead three minutes into the first quarter.
- At the five-minute mark, sophomore guard Aurora Sørbye drained three from the point to put the Demon Deacons up 10-6.
- After the Tigers tied things up 10-10, a floater from freshman guard Caitlyn Jones brought the Deacs back in front to lead 12-10 at the end of the quarter.
- Out of the gate, sophomore forward Kennedy Moore extended the Deacs lead with two in the paint less than thirty seconds into the second quarter.
- At the 8:23 mark, Sørbye put Wake Forest in front by five points with a bucket from beyond the arc.
- Oliver grabbed the lead back from the Tigers with three from the right corner.
- A layup from the Norwell, Mass.-native started a 9-3 run for the Deacs.
- Jones put up two in the paint, followed by a three from Sørbye to go up 33-25.
- Graduate forward Emily Johns made it 35-28 with a layup with 1:22 remaining.
- A final layup from Jones gave the Deacs a six point lead at the half.
- Wake Forest continued to dominate into the second half, as Sørbye went 3-for-3 in under a minute and a half to give the Deacs a double-digit lead over the Tigers.
- Jones put up two in the paint to take the largest lead of the contest with 5:12 to go.
- Freshman guard Milan Brown kept the Demon Deacons' advantage with a perfect trip to the stripe.
- Wake Forest entered the final quarter leading the Tigers 54-48.
- Freshman forward Opal Bird launched three just twenty seconds into the fourth.
- The Deacs maintained its double digit lead with three from Oliver.
- Clemson tied the game at 61-61 with 1:32 left in the game.
- Wake Forest responded with a layup from Carter.
- The Deacs went back in front with another two points from Carter with 11 seconds to go.
- The Tigers went 2-for-2 at the stripe to send the game into overtime.
- Action spanned across the court in extra time.
- Bird found Oliver under the basket for a layup to go up 67-65.
- Clemson took its first lead of the game with 3:55 to go.
- With 0:25 seconds on the clock, Carter made an and-one to bring the game within five points, as the Tigers still led 76-71.
- Wake Forest was unable to complete a comeback as they dropped the contest, 78-71.
- The Demon Deacons saw another double-digit performance from the three, with sophomore guard Aurora Sørbye knocking back four of the 10 threes.
- Over the last seven games, the Demon Deacons have four double-digit three-point performances coming against Gardner-Webb, Pitt, NC State and Clemson.
- During that stretch, Wake Forest is averaging 8.14 threes made per game and the 57 threes made have accounted for 43.5 percent of the threes made for the entire season.
- Additionally, the Deacs are shooting at a high clip during that seven-game stretch, knocking down 57-of-127 3FG (44.9 pct.)
- Over the last seven games, the Demon Deacons have four double-digit three-point performances coming against Gardner-Webb, Pitt, NC State and Clemson.
- With a career high 16 points, sophomore guard Aurora Sørbye shot an impressive 4-of-7 from beyond the arc and 6-of-13 overall.
- Tying Sørbye's 16 points, sophomore guard Grace Oliver tallied her first double-double of the season with a season-best 11 rebounds and shooting 7-of-12 from the field.
- Oliver leads the conference with a .607 field goal percentage and ranks ninth in the country.
- Junior guard/forward Mary Carter completed the Wake Forest offense with 15 points and going 6-of-12 from the field, while also adding eight rebounds.
"This is a tough one to swallow. We played 36 good minutes of basketball but we didn't execute down the stretch to close this one out. We had some defensive mental mistakes in overtime that cost us. In regulation, we need to find a way to score the basketball and we can't have a stretch of five minutes without scoring. That includes making our shots at the free throw line and turning the ball over in key situations. We need to understand that we have to play 40 minutes and this is a hard learning lesson. This one will sit with us for a bit because of how close we were to getting a tough road win. Now we have to get back and hopefully this is the point we look back on as the turning point of the season. The bye comes at the right time to get these things fixed." - Megan Gebbia
Up Next
The Demon Deacons are off until Sunday when the Demon Deacons return home for the annual Play 4 Kay game against Virginia Tech.
Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. on ACC Network Extra.
Team Stats
WF
CU
FG%
.475
.417
3FG%
.500
.423
FT%
.556
.810
RB
34
32
TO
18
12
STL
9
6
Game Leaders
Pts
16
FGM
6
3FGM
4
FTM
0
Pts
16
FGM
7
3FGM
2
FTM
0
Pts
15
FGM
6
3FGM
2
FTM
1
Pts
11
FGM
5
3FGM
0
FTM
1
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