Virginia narrowly defeats Wake Forest 49-47 in a close college basketball game. Wake Forest had a chance for a Quad-1 road win but struggled offensively, missing key shots. Despite UVA's poor free-throw shooting, they managed to secure the win.
Wake Forest defeats Akron 14-3 in a run-rule seven inning affair to move to a perfect 3-0 on the season. Nine Deacs with hits, eight Deacs with RBIs and runs scored. Wake plays at UNCG Tuesday, then hosts Dayton for a weekend series back at The Couch starting Friday.
Wake Forest beats Akron 14-3 (7 innings). Top-ranked Deacons start the season with a 3-game sweep of Rams, Illini and Zips. Pitching ahead of hitting, though bats seemed to wake up today. Defense ... ehm, room for improvement. WF is at UNCG on Tuesday.
Wake Forest leads 14-3 entering the 7th inning. If the Deacons get 3 outs without giving up 2 runs, we're done here, as the 10-run rule is in affect.
Seaver King has his first homer as a Deacon. His 2-run shot puts Wake Forest up 13-3 in the 5th. It followed a 2-run single by Nick Kurtz. Wake's offense has come alive against Akron's bullpen day.
Zach Johnston on the mound for Wake Forest. Massey's first start of the season is done after three innings of no-hit baseball. Four strikeouts, two walks and one run. Deacs lead 6-1 after three complete.
The Wake Forest bats have come alive! Adam Tellier two-run double to left-center and the Deacs lead 6-1.
Austin Hawke in the 9-hole could be quite a weapon for the Deacs. Six RBIs this season already. Single to right drives in Winnay and Wake Forest leads 4-1.
Jack Winnay with a laser shot down the third base line for a double that plates Seaver King. First hits of the season for both Winnay and King gives Wake Forest a 3-1 lead in the bottom of the third.
Vaqueros starting to chip away here in the second half. Daylen Williams 3 gives UTRGV a 6-0 run and they have cut the defict to 45-32 with 17:10 left in regulation. Willaims leads UTRGV with nine.
We are at halftime in Edinburg. @UTRGVmbb trails @UTAMavsMBB 42-26 Sherman Brashear \has 8pts to lead the way for UTRGV Dajuan Gordon has 9 for the MAVS Vaqueros have never led and are in danger of losing their eighth straight. https://t.co/EO6mMD44qz
UTRGV's struggles on defense have continued to tonight. UTA is shooting 15/25 (60%) from the field and have 24 points in the paint. Vaqueros are struggling with their outside shooting shooting 9/21 at 42.9% Vaqueros trail 36-22 3:58 left in 1st
Steve Forbes compares playing against #UVA to visiting the dentist, so when the Wake Forest coach lost three teeth on Friday, he said he should've known what he was in for. Virginia's defense bounced back from a bad outing to lead a 49-47 win over Wake. https://t.co/clneLmE7bJ
Wake Forest had a Quad-1 road win in its sights. It wasn't defense that let the Deacons down this time; it was making 6 shots in the last 13:45, when the ill-fated last shot would've sent us to OT: https://t.co/oUFXWtXcmt
Wake Forest coach Steve Forbes said team focused on 3-point defense, because #UVA has to make 3s to win. Offensively, Wake hit 10 3s in the first meeting. "We made 5. I think to win here, you have to make 10."
This is apropos of nothing, but Virginia just won a college basketball game when it missed its first 10 free throws before finally hitting one with six seconds left. The Cavaliers' 49-47 win against Wake Forest had to be like watching paint dry.
I’m truly impressed with how bad Virginia is at the foul line.
Virginia just set a new standard for winning ugly. They edge Wake Forest 49-47 while going 1 for 11 at foul line. Good lord.
UVA just went 1-11 from the line and scored only 49 pts for the entire game. And won. LOL.
Virginia winning a game 49-47 in which it goes 1-11 from the free throw line … https://t.co/69QmYGIk78
Virginia beats Wake Forest 49-47. Cameron Hildreth's turnaround jumper from the baseline would've tied it. Deacons drop second Quad-1 road chance of the week. Wake Forest made six shots in the last 13 1/2 minutes. WF is home against Pitt #onaTuesday.
Hildreth fall away bouncing off the rim as the horn sounds and UVA holds on to defeat Wake Forest 49-47 here at John Paul Jones Arena. Weird finish, for sure.
Virginia makes its first free throw of the game with 6.7 seconds remaining to hang onto a two-point win over Wake Forest. Cavaliers missed their first 10 attempts from the stripe. Wild.
Sallis drains a 3 and the Deacs are down just 1. Again, Wake Forest has no timeouts remaining.
Wake Forest is in position at the final TV timeout, trailing UVA by just a single point searching for that elusive road Quad 1 victory. Huge opportunity here for the Demon Deacons.
Ryan Dunn's seven blocked shots today the most by an ACC player this season. #UVa
Wake Forest is position at the final TV timeout, trailing UVA by just a single point searching for that elusive road Quad 1 victory. Huge opportunity here for the Demon Deacons.
We're at the under-4 with UVA leading Wake Forest 43-42. Probably too late for the "hope yall took the under" reference but there it is anyway. This one is there for WF if it can find some semblance of offensive rhythm over the next 3:54.
UVA has missed all 6 FT attempts today. In a 41-39 game, that's, uh, significant.
#UVA freshman center Blake Buchanan misses two FTs. 'Hoos are 0-4 at the line today. Virginia clinging to a 41-39 lead with 6:26 left.
Pitt made 14 3-pointers here to win earlier this week. Wake Forest is 2-for-14 today; combined 8-for-40 this week.
Ryan Dunn's fifth blocked shot, of an attempted dunk by Andrew Carr, one for the archives and ignites a #UVa run. Cavaliers have their largest lead at 41-34. Timeout, Wake. 9:12 remaining.
Danger zone for Wake Forest, trailing 41-34 after a turnover leads to a Reece Beekman dunk. Timeout, Steve Forbes. WF had 4 kills in the first half, only 1 in the second half so far.
Reece Beekman with the steal and two-handed dunk. #UVA leads Wake 41-34 with 9:12 to go. After that play Dante Harris and Kevin Miller were mixing it up under the basket. Looked like Miller took exception to Harris's big scream celebrating the Beekman dunk.
Reece Beekman with back-to-back 3s to open the second half and #UVA now leads 27-24 with 18:09 to go. Beekman has 12.
Wake Forest leads 22-21 at halftime. UVA scored more than half of those points in the first 4-plus minutes. It was 11 points in 6 possessions; 10 points in 21 poss. after that. Wake Forest -- stop me if you've heard this before -- is right there at halftime of an ACC road game.
Jason Williford and Ryan Dunn now leading Tony Bennett away from the officials after their latest questionable call. Lots of clapping now in the #UVA huddle. Hoos trail Wake 18-17 with 3:13 left in the half.
Refs missed a foul on Efton Reid against Blake Buchanan when #UVA had the ball, then whistled Buchanan for a foul defending Reid going up. Tony Bennett and Virginia fans are displeased. Wake ahead 16-13 with 6:53 left in the half.
Deacs were stuck at 8 pts for quite awhile, but are in the middle of an 8-0 run, with a pair of 3s from Damari Monsanto and Boopie Miller. Wake Forest leads 16-13.
Interesting that, with Reece Beekman out, Isaac McKneely is now guarding Wake's Hunter Sallis. And Sallis blows right by him for a layup. #UVA 11-8 over Wake with 14:25 to go in the half.
UVA has scored on every possession other than the one with two missed FTs by Ryan Dunn. So at the first media TO, Deacons still looking for their first stop.
Wake - which sank 10 3's in the earlier win against #UVA - is scoring inside early on with Richmond native Efton Reid. Reid has all six of Wake's points. 'Hoos lead 9-6 with 16:17 left in the half. Virginia has Reece Beekman guarding Hunter Sallis this game.
At JPJ for the second meeting this season between No. 21 Virginia (19-6, 10-4 ACC) and Wake Forest (16-8, 8-5 ACC). Tip is at noon. The Demons knocked off #UVa, 66-47, in Winston-Salem last month. https://t.co/LdfZt6eRGz
Live from JPJ for Wake Forest-Virginia, which starts in an hour on ESPN2. Deacons looking for that Quad-1 road win; UVA coming off a loss that snapped an 8-game win streak that vaulted it to the top 3 of the ACC. Remote coverage of Duke-FSU coming later (2 p.m. tip). https://t.co/nNy5zk6qKA
Wake Forest in control of its opener, leading Fordham 8-1. We'll get our first look at freshman pitcher Blake Morningstar. There's a lot of him, at 6-4, 220.