National Basketball Association
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
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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 |