Pack Hits Road to Face Wake Forest

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RALEIGH, N.C. – The NC State men's basketball team starts the final week of the regular season with a road trip to Winston-Salem to take on Wake Forest Wednesday evening.

The game at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum tips off at 9 p.m. and the game will be televised on Regional Sports Networks. Viewers in North Carolina will find the game on Bally Sports South. A complete list of affiliates showing the game can be found here.

Pack Tracks
- Freshman guard Terquavion Smith led NC State with 20 points against North Carolina. He also had a team-high five rebounds and tied for the team lead in assists. Smith has led the Pack in scoring in six of the last eight games. He has led the team in rebounding in three of the last four games and has led the team in assists in five consecutive games.
- Smith has made 86 three-pointers this season, which is the most by a freshman in program history and the sixth-most in a single season in program history. He leads the ACC with an average of 2.97 three-pointers per game. He is aiming to be the first freshman to lead the ACC in three-pointers since Duke's JJ Redick in the 2002-03 season.
- Redshirt-sophomore guard Dereon Seabron leads NC State in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals. Seabron is one of only just five DI players and three Power-five players (Wisconsin's Johnny Davis and USC's Isaiah Mobley) He has led NC State in scoring 12 times this season, in rebounding 22 times, assists 17 times and steals nine times.

Wednesday Storylines
- Wednesday is a matchup of the top-two scoring trios in the ACC. NC State's trio of Dereon Seabron (17.7), Terquavion Smith (15.9) and Jericole Hellems (13.3) combine to average 46.9 points per game. The trio is responsible for 64.2 percent of NC State's points this season. They are combining to average 46.7 points per game in 18 league games this season and they are scoring 66.2 percent of the Pack's points in conference play. Wake Forest's Alondes Williams (19.4), Jake LaRavia (15.1) & Daivien Williamson (12.0) combined to average 46.5 points per game. The Demon Deacons trio has scored 56.7 percent of Wake Forest's points this season.
- In the first meeting with the Demon Deacons, NC State scored a season-low 51 points. It also had season-lows in three-pointers made (3), three-point field goal percentage (13.6/3-of-22). Defensively, its three steals were also a season low.
- Biggest stat indicator for an NC State win? Opponent field goal percentage. In its 18 losses this season, NC State's opponents are shooting a combined 50.1 percent from the field and 37.6 percent from three-point range. NC State is 1-12 this season if its opponent shoots over 50 percent from the field. The Pack is 10-6 if it holds its opponent to under 50 percent shooting. In the Pack's wins, opponents are shooting 41.6 percent from the field and 34.2 percent from three-point range.

NC State - Wake Forest Series
- Wednesday is the 254th meeting between the two programs. NC State leads the all-time series, 146-107.
- NC State is 8-23 all-time against the Demon Deacons at Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.
- Kevin Keatts is 7-2 against Wake Forest as head coach of NC State, including a 3-1 mark against the Demon Deacons inside LJVM Coliseum.
- Earlier Meeting this season: Wake Forest defeated NC State, 69-51, inside PNC Arena on Feb. 9. The Demon Deacons ended the game on a 16-0 run. Dereon Seabron scored 19 of his 22 points in the second half. He was the only NC State player to reach double figures. Jaylon Gibson had a career-high 11 rebounds.

Chart Climbing
- Career Scoring: Jericole Hellems is currently in 42nd place on NC State's career scoring list. He needs eight more points to become the 42nd player in program history with 1,200 career points. He needs 23 more points to pass Illian Evtimov and Richard Howell (both at 1,214) to move into 40th place on the program's all-time scoring list.
- Career Free Throw Percentage: Jericole Hellems is in 13th place on the Pack's career free throw percentage at 79.5 percent. He had his streak of 27 consecutive made free throws snapped in Saturday's game at UNC. He enters Wednesday's Wake Forest game having hit 27 of his last 28 free throws and ranks fourth in the ACC in free throw percentage this season at 84.3 percent.
- Single Season Three-Pointers: Terquavion Smith has 86 three-pointers on the season which is the most by a freshman in school history. He is currently sixth on the program's single-season chart and needs seven more to catch Tom Gugliotta (93 in 1991-92) for fifth-most in a single season.
- Single Season Points by a Freshman: Terquavion Smith has scored 461 points this season which is the third-most by a freshman in program history. The only freshmen in program history to score more points in a season are Brandon Costner (605 in 2006-07) and Dennis Smith, Jr. (580 in 2016-17).
- Single Season Blocks: Ebenezer Dowuona has 53 blocks on the season. He currently ranks 12th on the Pack's single-season block list. He trails C.J. Leslie (54 in 2011-12) by one block for 11th and needs three more blocks to move into a tie for ninth with Todd Fuller (56 in 1995-96) and Pano Fasoulas (56 in 1985-86).

Players Mentioned

Ebenezer Dowuona

Jaylon Gibson

Jericole Hellems

Dereon Seabron

Terquavion Smith

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