Pack Insider · Jan 16, 2019
NC State 71 Wake Forest 67: ACCDN Reel & Condensed Game
Some things just don’t want to change.
NC State entered tonight’s contest with an audacious 6-22 record in Joel Coliseum.
Make that 6-23. The Wolfpack fell 71-67 to the Demon Deacons tonight.
Someone cursed NC State years ago on a trip to Winston Salem, and they haven’t been able to find a way to break the hex.
Sure, the Wolfpack was without injured Junior Point Guard Markell Johnson, but that shouldn’t have equaled a 15-point deficit at the half, which is the largest NC State has trailed at the break under Kevin Keatts.
Johnson, when on his game, is one of the best in the conference, but his absence shouldn’t equal 37% shooting from the field and 20.7% from beyond the arch.