SATURDAY'S PROMOTION
• Wake Forest University Staff/Appreciation Day - All Wake Forest University faculty and staff and their families are being offered free admission and free t-shirts for the game
DEACS CONCLUDE NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AGAINST NC A&T
• Wake Forest ends its non-conference schedule and calendar year 2019 by hosting North Carolina A&T
• With a victory, the Deacs would post an undefeated home non-conference slate (4-0), its first undefeated non-conference home schedule since 2016-17 (5-0)
• Since Wake Forest moved to Winston-Salem in the 1950s, the Deacs are undefeated (33-0) against their Piedmont Triad neighbors (11-0 vs. UNCG, 8-0 vs. Elon, 5-0 vs. High Point, 5-0 vs. North Carolina A&T and 4-0 vs. Winston-Salem State)
SERIES HISTORY
• Wake Forest leads 5-0 (Wake Forest leads 4-0 at LJVM Coliseum)
• The Deacs and Aggies are playing for the second straight year after a 14-year break in the series from 2004-05 to 2018-19
• Wake and NC A&T have played four times this century at LJVM Coliseum after the first meeting occurred in the 1995 NCAA Tournament in Baltimore, Md.
• The Demon Deacons have won all five previous meetings by double figures with an average margin of victory of 24 points
• Last season six Deacs scored in double figures as they topped the Aggies 90-78 in the season opener
LAST TIME OUT
• Wake Forest posted its first ranked win of the season, downing No. 23 Xavier 80-78 last Saturday in the Skip Prosser Classic at the LJVM Coliseum
• Chaundee Brown scored a career-high 26 points to go with six rebounds to lead the Demon Deacons, earning ACC Player of the Week honors for his performance
• Brandon Childress added 22 points, his second straight 20-point game, including scoring the Deacs' final seven points over the last 1:10 to seal the win
ACC-OLADES
• Wake Forest has had two ACC Player of the Week honorees this season, Olivier Sarr (Dec. 2) and Chaundee Brown (Dec. 16)
• Wake joins Duke as the only school to have multiple players earn the honor this season
• It is the first time since 2009-10 that two Deacs have won the award in the same season (Al-Farouq Aminu and Ish Smith)
• Sarr was honored after the Wooden Legacy, when he averaged 17.0 points and a tournament-leading 11.7 rebounds in games against Charleston, Long Beach State and Arizona
• Brown was honored after scoring a career-high 26 points in the win over No. 23 Xavier
WE WERE ON A BREAK!
• Following today's game, the Deacs will not play again for two weeks (Jan. 4 at Pitt)
• The 14-day span between games is the longest in-season break for Wake since 1991-92
• That season, the Deacs won at Richmond on Dec. 21 before winning at Clemson on Jan. 4
GETTING TO THE LINE
• Wake Forest leads the ACC in both free throw percentage (75.9 percent) and in free throw attempts (24.2 per game)
• No ACC team has led the conference in both FT percentage and attempts since 2010 (Duke)
• Olivier Sarr ranks second in the ACC with 61 free throw attempts, already matching his 2018-19 free throw attempt total
• Sarr's 6.1 FTA/game is the highest rate of getting to the line by a Deacon since 2017 when John Collins averaged 6.7 FTA/game
• Brandon Childress (49) and Olivier Sarr (47) rank first and second in the ACC in free throws made this season
• Wake Forest University Staff/Appreciation Day - All Wake Forest University faculty and staff and their families are being offered free admission and free t-shirts for the game
DEACS CONCLUDE NON-CONFERENCE SCHEDULE AGAINST NC A&T
• Wake Forest ends its non-conference schedule and calendar year 2019 by hosting North Carolina A&T
• With a victory, the Deacs would post an undefeated home non-conference slate (4-0), its first undefeated non-conference home schedule since 2016-17 (5-0)
• Since Wake Forest moved to Winston-Salem in the 1950s, the Deacs are undefeated (33-0) against their Piedmont Triad neighbors (11-0 vs. UNCG, 8-0 vs. Elon, 5-0 vs. High Point, 5-0 vs. North Carolina A&T and 4-0 vs. Winston-Salem State)
SERIES HISTORY
• Wake Forest leads 5-0 (Wake Forest leads 4-0 at LJVM Coliseum)
• The Deacs and Aggies are playing for the second straight year after a 14-year break in the series from 2004-05 to 2018-19
• Wake and NC A&T have played four times this century at LJVM Coliseum after the first meeting occurred in the 1995 NCAA Tournament in Baltimore, Md.
• The Demon Deacons have won all five previous meetings by double figures with an average margin of victory of 24 points
• Last season six Deacs scored in double figures as they topped the Aggies 90-78 in the season opener
LAST TIME OUT
• Wake Forest posted its first ranked win of the season, downing No. 23 Xavier 80-78 last Saturday in the Skip Prosser Classic at the LJVM Coliseum
• Chaundee Brown scored a career-high 26 points to go with six rebounds to lead the Demon Deacons, earning ACC Player of the Week honors for his performance
• Brandon Childress added 22 points, his second straight 20-point game, including scoring the Deacs' final seven points over the last 1:10 to seal the win
ACC-OLADES
• Wake Forest has had two ACC Player of the Week honorees this season, Olivier Sarr (Dec. 2) and Chaundee Brown (Dec. 16)
• Wake joins Duke as the only school to have multiple players earn the honor this season
• It is the first time since 2009-10 that two Deacs have won the award in the same season (Al-Farouq Aminu and Ish Smith)
• Sarr was honored after the Wooden Legacy, when he averaged 17.0 points and a tournament-leading 11.7 rebounds in games against Charleston, Long Beach State and Arizona
• Brown was honored after scoring a career-high 26 points in the win over No. 23 Xavier
WE WERE ON A BREAK!
• Following today's game, the Deacs will not play again for two weeks (Jan. 4 at Pitt)
• The 14-day span between games is the longest in-season break for Wake since 1991-92
• That season, the Deacs won at Richmond on Dec. 21 before winning at Clemson on Jan. 4
GETTING TO THE LINE
• Wake Forest leads the ACC in both free throw percentage (75.9 percent) and in free throw attempts (24.2 per game)
• No ACC team has led the conference in both FT percentage and attempts since 2010 (Duke)
• Olivier Sarr ranks second in the ACC with 61 free throw attempts, already matching his 2018-19 free throw attempt total
• Sarr's 6.1 FTA/game is the highest rate of getting to the line by a Deacon since 2017 when John Collins averaged 6.7 FTA/game
• Brandon Childress (49) and Olivier Sarr (47) rank first and second in the ACC in free throws made this season
