NC State won the opening tip, but that was about the last positive thing that happened to the Wolfpack on Saturday afternoon inside the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Wake Forest’s John Collins quickly scored on a leak out dunk and the Deacons never looked back, as they topped NC State 88-58 to improve to 15-10, 6-7 on the season, while NC State fell to 14-12, 3-10.
Wake Forest was able to get off to a hot start by taking advantage of NC State’s poor communication/rotations on screening action and also pushing the ball after stops and makes.