In the first sellout at LJVM since 2009, Wake Forest fell to #17 Duke, 85-83. Duke won its first conference game of the season, and Wake fell again in a game they led by double digits.
Wake started with the same lineup as recent weeks, and on a Keyshawn Woods hustle play, diving out of bounds, Wake won the tip, but Duke was first to score. Both teams worked the paint in the early going with Amile Jefferson providing the scoring for Duke and Dinos Mitoglou and Bryant Crawford getting on the board early for the Deacs. Duke added a couple threes after that, but Wake continued to feed the post in the early going.