Thanks to www.clemsontigers.com and www.espn.com for statistics and some visuals.
Jeff Bzdelik is in his first year as Head Coach of Wake Forest and it's been a rough one. Wake Forest was expected to take a step back this year after losing Al-Farouq Aminu and Ishmael Smith to the NBA, as well as Tony Woods transfer to Louisville. What wasn't expected was three giant leaps backwards, which is what has happened. Wake Forest has an RPI of 252. For a point of reference, the worst RPI of any ACC team the previous 5 seasons was 159 by Miami in 2006-2007.
Bzdelik came to Wake Forest from Colorado after Dino Gaudio was somewhat surprisingly fired. Bzdelik never had a winning record in his 3 seasons at Colorado and ended his stint there with a 10-38 conference record. It was an interesting hire, to say the least.
Come inside to take a more in depth look at this Wake team..
Bzdelik inherited a very young, but talented basketball team. Wake Forest's 2010 recruiting class brought in 5 new players and was ranked the #12 class in the country according to Rivals. Wake relies on the freshman to play significant minutes. 4 out of the 5 freshman are averaging better than 16 minutes per game. SF Travis McKie (pronounce Mc-eye) and SG JT Terrell, both freshman, lead Wake in scoring at 12 ppg and 11 ppg, respectively.
The stats backup Wake's season long struggles. Offensively they score a paltry 0.96 points per possession, which is last in the conference and ranks them 282 (out of 346) in the country. They do, however, play at the 4th fastest pace in the conference (70.8 per 40 mins), which is why their points per game is higher than ours. Defensively they allow 1.09 points per possession which is 324th in the country (11th in the conference).
The stats above were for all games. Now lets take a look at conference games, which is somehow significantly worse: Offense - 0.90 points per possession, Defense - 1.17 points per possession. Those numbers add up to an average loss of -18.5 points per game. That is incredibly atrocious. This Wake Forest team is the worst ACC team I can remember watching. Needless to say, I expect Clemson to win and I expect us to win comfortably.
General statistical overview/team leaders:
Projected Starting Lineups:
Clemson |
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|
NAME |
NO |
POS |
HT |
WT |
CLASS |
HOMETOWN |
|
Demontez Stitt |
2 |
G |
6-2 |
180 |
SR |
Matthews, NC |
|
Andre Young |
11 |
G |
5-9 |
175 |
JR |
Albany, GA |
|
Tanner Smith |
5 |
G |
6-5 |
210 |
JR |
Alpharetta, GA |
|
Devin Booker |
31 |
F-C |
6-8 |
245 |
SO |
Whitmire, SC |
|
Jerai Grant |
45 |
F-C |
6-8 |
230 |
SR |
Bowie, MD |
Wake |
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|
NAME |
NO |
POS |
HT |
WT |
CLASS |
HOMETOWN |
|
J.T. Terrell |
0 |
G |
6-3 |
175 |
FR |
Charlotte, NC |
|
Gary Clark |
2 |
G |
6-4 |
200 |
SR |
Sarasota, FL |
|
C.J. Harris |
11 |
G |
6-3 |
185 |
SO |
Winston-Salem, NC |
|
Travis McKie |
30 |
F |
6-7 |
205 |
FR |
Richmond, VA |
|
Ty Walker |
40 |
C |
7-0 |
230 |
JR |
Wilmington, NC |
Statistics To Date:
Clemson |
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| Player | GP | MIN | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TPG | FG% | FT% | 3P% |
| Demontez Stitt | 25 | 33.4 | 14.1 | 4.3 | 3.3 | 1.4 | 0.4 | 1.8 | 42.8% | 73.2% | 36.4% |
| Jerai Grant | 27 | 26.5 | 12.3 | 6.5 | 0.7 | 1 | 2.3 | 1.3 | 58.7% | 71.6% | 0.0% |
| Andre Young | 27 | 32.5 | 11.1 | 2.8 | 3 | 1.4 | 0 | 1.4 | 41.2% | 68.9% | 39.9% |
| Milton Jennings | 27 | 19.9 | 8.2 | 5.1 | 0.4 | 0.6 | 0.4 | 2 | 41.5% | 72.6% | 25.8% |
| Tanner Smith | 25 | 28.9 | 7.8 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 1.2 | 0.3 | 1.8 | 39.6% | 71.6% | 33.3% |
| Devin Booker | 27 | 24.1 | 7.7 | 5.3 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.4 | 1.6 | 45.6% | 72.7% | 31.4% |
| Bryan Narcisse | 27 | 13.3 | 3.3 | 1.5 | 0.3 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 51.7% | 53.1% | 40.9% |
| Noel Johnson | 7 | 13.1 | 2.9 | 1.6 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.9 | 27.3% | 62.5% | 21.4% |
| Cory Stanton | 26 | 11.8 | 2.7 | 0.8 | 0.8 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0.8 | 35.2% | 68.4% | 20.6% |
| Zavier Anderson | 24 | 9.6 | 1.2 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0.6 | 0.3 | 1.2 | 42.3% | 40.0% | 50.0% |
| Catalin Baciu | 20 | 3.5 | 1.1 | 1.3 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 56.3% | 33.3% | 0.0% |
| Jonah Baize | 6 | 3.7 | 0 | 0.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.5 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| DeAndre Hopkins | 5 | 1.8 | 0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Totals | 27 | -- | 68 | 34 | 12 | 8 | 5 | 13 | 44.4% | 69.1% | 34.1% |
Wake Forest |
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| Player | GP | MIN | PPG | RPG | APG | SPG | BPG | TPG | FG% | FT% | 3P% |
| Travis McKie | 28 | 31 | 12.9 | 7.6 | 1 | 0.9 | 1 | 2.1 | 48.7% | 75.2% | 28.0% |
| J.T. Terrell | 28 | 24.5 | 11.6 | 2.1 | 1.6 | 0.6 | 0 | 2.3 | 37.7% | 76.8% | 36.2% |
| Gary Clark | 28 | 26.5 | 10.6 | 2.2 | 1.6 | 0.8 | 0.2 | 1.6 | 51.8% | 81.7% | 57.3% |
| C.J. Harris | 28 | 32.7 | 10.6 | 3.6 | 3.8 | 0.9 | 0 | 3.3 | 40.2% | 83.4% | 37.5% |
| Ari Stewart | 27 | 26.6 | 9.4 | 4.7 | 1.2 | 0.4 | 0.1 | 2.5 | 39.9% | 83.0% | 27.9% |
| Tony Chennault | 11 | 16.3 | 5.5 | 2.2 | 1.5 | 0.2 | 0 | 2.1 | 32.9% | 60.0% | 16.7% |
| Carson Desrosiers | 27 | 18.6 | 4.1 | 3.3 | 0.7 | 0.2 | 1.7 | 0.9 | 39.4% | 69.7% | 33.3% |
| Ty Walker | 28 | 19.4 | 4 | 3.7 | 0.5 | 0.6 | 2.7 | 0.7 | 44.7% | 59.4% | 0.0% |
| Nikita Mescheriakov | 19 | 12.7 | 3.4 | 1.6 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.1 | 1.5 | 42.0% | 74.1% | 27.3% |
| Melvin Tabb | 14 | 8.9 | 1.6 | 2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.6 | 34.8% | 38.5% | 33.3% |
| Ryan Keenan | 9 | 1.2 | 0.7 | 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.2 | 50.0% | 0.0% | 66.7% |
| Aaron Ingle | 13 | 3.1 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.1 | 50.0% | 50.0% | 0.0% |
| Brooks Godwin | 10 | 2.7 | 0.1 | 0.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0.0% | 25.0% | 0.0% |
| Denmore McDermott | 4 | 1.5 | 0 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Totals | 28 | -- | 68 | 33 | 11 | 5 | 6 | 16 | 42.6% | 75.6% | 36.7% |
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