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BOXSCORE | RECAP
Wake Forest 73, Virginia Tech 70
When: 2:00 PM ET, Saturday, January 31, 2015
Where: Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Officials: # Bernard Clinton, # Ron Tyburski, # Jamie Luckie
Attendance: 11752

Wake Forest 73, Virginia Tech 70: Codi Miller-McIntyre scored a game-high 19 points as the host Demon Deacons snapped a four-game losing streak.

Konstantinos Mitoglou and Mitchell Wilbekin each scored 15 points for Wake Forest (10-12, 2-7 ACC), which won despite sinking just 16-of-27 free throws. Devin Thomas added nine points, eight rebounds and five assists and guard Madison Jones added eight points, including a pair of key free throws in crunch time.

Adam Smith had 12 points and Ahmed Hill and Devin Wilson each scored 11 to lead Virginia Tech (9-12, 1-7), which finished with six players in double figures. The Hokies gave up 15 offensive rebounds which led to a 14-4 Wake Forest edge in second chance points.

Virginia Tech, which trailed by as many as 10 points early in the second half, rallied to take a 65-64 lead on a Christian Beyer layup with 1:46 to go. Thomas gave the Demon Deacons the lead for good at 69-67 when he powered in for a layup and after Wilbekin sank two free throws to up the lead to four, Smith answered with a 3-pointer before Jones, a 58-percent free throw shooter, hit two more free throws with 11 seconds to go, and Justin Bibbs then missed a 3-pointer that could have forced overtime.

Bibbs, Virginia Tech's leading scorer, returned to action after missing four games with a concussion and his layup gave the Hokies a 10-4 lead after eight minutes. But Miller-McIntyre and Mitoglou each scored five points to spark a 16-5 run by the Demon Deacons who went into halftime with a 32-28 lead.

GAME NOTEBOOK: Wake Forest, which had more than five blocks in a game just four times this season, had six blocks in the first half alone and eight for the game. ... Virginia Tech finished with a 34-15 edge in bench points. ... The last time the Hokies had six players in double figures was on Jan. 15, 2011, also against Wake Forest.
Top Game Performances
 
Virginia Tech   Wake Forest
Adam Smith 12 Scoring Cody Miller-McIntyre 19
Devin Wilson 6 Assists Devin Thomas 5
Christian Beyer 6 Rebounds Greg McClinton 8
Devin Wilson 6 Free Throws Made Cody Miller-McIntyre 5
Malik Muller 2 Steals Mitchell Wilbekin 2
N/A Blocks Greg McClinton 2
Team Stats Summary
 
Team Points FG% 3PM-3PA FTM-FTA Assists Rebounds Blocks Steals Turnovers
Virginia Tech 70 43.1 9-26 17-20 14 30 0 4 11
Wake Forest 73 45.5 7-25 16-27 15 31 8 4 9