BLACKSBURG – Hitting the road for the third time this month, the Virginia Tech men's basketball team will play at Wake Forest on Tuesday at 9 p.m. ET.
The Hokies (12-4, 3-2 ACC) and Demon Deacons (8-7, 2-4) will go at it inside Lawrence Joel Veteran Memorial Coliseum, a place where Tech has won two straight.
Tech leads the all-time series 35-31, but is 9-17 on the road versus the Deacs. Tech coach Mike Young is 1-0 versus Wake, winning on Jan. 2, 2012 at LJVM by a score of 56-52, and has never faced Danny Manning.
The matchup will be broadcast on ACC Network, with Will Fleming (play-by-play) and Chris Spatola (analyst) on the call, while Jon Laaser (play-by-play) and Mike Burnop (analyst) will broadcast on Virginia Tech Sports Properties.
GAME INFORMATION
Tue. | 9 p.m. ET at Wake Forest | Stats | Watch | Radio | Notes
The last time out, the Hokies got in a 10-0 hole to begin the game, but a 13-0 run gave them the lead and they never looked back, winning by 14 points. Tech outscored the Wolfpack 15-4 in transition and held them to shooting 32 percent from the field and 20 percent from downtown.
Earlier today, Landers Nolley II earned his fifth ACC Freshman of the Week award, tying Duke's Zion Williamson and North Carolina's Coby White for their five honors last season. Nolley averaged 21.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game last week versus Syracuse (9-7, 2-3) and NC State (11-5, 2-3).
Tech ranks highly nationally, owning the best turnovers per game average with 9.7 a game, second in fouls committed per game with 12.4 and third in assist/turnover ratio with 1.61.
SCOUTING WAKE FOREST
• The Demon Deacons are coming off a 90-59 loss at No. 2/2 Duke (15-1, 5-0) on Saturday, despite having three players in double figures and their bench outscoring the Blue Devils 38-28. But 17 turnovers and Duke's Tre Jones' game-high 23 points proved to be too much in biggest margin of defeat this season (31 points) for the Deacs.
• Danny Manning enters his sixth season as the head coach in Winston-Salem, following his two-year stint as head coach at Tulsa, where he led the Golden Hurricane to the 2014 NCAA Tournament. At Wake, Manning led the Deacs to the 2017 NCAA Tournament and has amassed over 70 victories.
• Wake is led by Brandon Childress, who has a team-high 14.9 points, 4.6 assists and 1.3 steals per game, and Olivier Sarr and his 6.43 defensive rebounds per game, which ranks second in the ACC.
•. One of the better teams in the country at the charity stripe, Wake has made 272 free throws this season, the 24th-most nationally and first in the conference, while its 74.3 free-throw percentage is second in the league. And with the Deacs attacking the glass often (366 free-throw attempts), don't expect to see them shoot too many triples, ranking No. 331 in 3-point attempts.
