WBB at Wake Forest Jan 24 at 5 PM NOTE DATE CHANGE

NOTE!! That date is correct. The game has been moved back to Saturday evening from Sunday. Still an ACCNx game. Scott Pryzwanski PxP, Stan Lewter Analyst.

Wake is 12-8, 2-6 in the ACC. The Hokies are now 15-5, 5-3 in the ACC. ESPN Matchup Predictor give the Hokies 83.8% chance to win. Wake is on a five game losing streak. The best two teams they have played in the ACC were losses to Syracuse and NC State; both teams received 4 votes in the last rankings. Their two wins were against Ga Tech and Pitt, who are not very good. Against common opponents, we both lost to Miami, we both beat Radford, we beat Syracuse and Clemson and they lost to both. In general we looked better than Wake against all the common opponents.

Wake is a relative young team; they start 2 freshmen, 2 sophomores and a junior. The next four are a freshman, a sophomore, a junior and a redshirt junior. The last three are a grad student and 2 freshman. No seniors on the team. They will have a slight height advantage in the front court most of the time with 6' 3" junior #14 Mary Carter, 6' 3" freshman #9 Opal Bird, and 6' 1" soph #13 Grace Oliver. Their back court will probably be 5' 8" freshman #0 Milan Brown and 5' 9" soph #2 Aurora Sorbye. The first two off the bench in their last game were 5' 8" freshman #5 Caitlyn Jones and 6' 1" grad #44 Emily Johns. Also playing a few minutes (8 and 3) were 6' 2" soph #15 Kennedy Moore and 6' 1" junior #22 Madisyn Jordan.

Wake shoots 45% overall, 32.8 from three and 65.8 from the line. Only Sorbye shoots over 40% at 40.7 from beyond the arc. The Demon Deacons do make about 6.5 threes per game on 20 attempts. Oliver, (13.6) and Carter (11.8) lead the scoring. No one else is in double digits. They only score 66.3 ppg and allow 59.8; the Hokies score 74.4 and allow 58.3 ppg. On the season they are being outrebounded by 1 rebound per game, which is a little surprising given their front line height; not great for the ACC but should have been a big advantage in the non-con schedule. Only the freshman Bird approaches foul problems with 2.5 per game.

Let's hope the Hokies are not too disorganized because of the schedule change. Wake is a team the Ladies should beat, especially if the rejuvenated Carleigh shows up. Our experience should trump their slight height advantage underneath and our back court should do well against theirs.

LET'S GO HOKIES!