NC State Travels to Wake Forest

RALEIGH – The NC State women's basketball team will travel to Winston-Salem to face Wake Forest on Thursday, Jan. 15 at 6 p.m. The game will be streamed on ACC Network Extra from LJVM Coliseum.

ABOUT NC STATE

NC State has started the ACC season 5-1 and is No. 3 in the league's current standings
The Wolfpack got back on track with a 91-54 win over SMU, its largest ACC win by margin of victory (37) this season
NC State and Wake Forest will play for the 96th time in the all-time series, holding an 81-14 record in the series
NC State is No. 27 in the NET with two quad 1 wins and three quad 2 wins, which combined for five is tied for the second most in the ACC (behind Duke with six and tied with Louisville)
With one of the toughest schedules in the country, NC State has the best average opponent NET ranking (70), which leads the country by eight, and has the fifth best NET SOS
Khamil Pierre leads the team in scoring (15.2) and rebounding (11.9), while also leading the league in defensive rebounds (8.5). She is fourth in the country in rebounding and has the sixth most double-doubles in the NCAA (10)
Zoe Brooks paces the Pack with 4.4 assists per game and has averaged 14.5 points per game
Zamareya Jones has a team's best 1.3 steals per game and a team's most 31 3-pointers, while having averaged 14.0 points per game
Tilda Trygger paces the Pack with 1.4 blocks per game and has a team's best field goal percentage a .542 (71-131), averaging 11.9 points per game
Four different Pack players rank in the top 25 in scoring per game in the ACC with Pierre (ninth - 15.2, Brooks (10th - 14.3), Jones (11th - 14.0) and Trygger (24th- 11.9), and two rank in the top 10 in rebounding with Pierre (1st - 11.9) and Trygger (9th - 8.2)
NC State leads the league in rebounds per game (45.88) and defensive rebounds per game (32.9), which are sixth and second in the country, respectively. The Pack also is second in the league in least turnovers per game (12.0), which is No. 13 in the country, and 3-point percentage defense (.263), No. 32 in NCAA

SCOUTING WAKE FOREST

Wake Forest was projected to finish 18th in the Preseason ACC Women's Basketball Poll. The Demon Deacons finished 9-20 overall and 2-16 in the ACC last year
The Demon Deacons finished 10-2 in the non-conference and are 12-6 and 2-4 in the ACC this season
Grace Oliver leads with 13.4 points per game and 24 steals
Milan Brown has a team's most 6.2 rebounds per game
Aurora Sorbye leads Wake with 58 assists and Opal Bird has 14 blocks to lead the team
Mary Carter also averages double digits in scoring with 11.5 points per game

LAST TIME OUT

NC State bounced back to defeat SMU in wire-to-wire fashion, 91-54, on Sunday
All 10 players on the roster scored for the first time this season (second time all players who checked into a game scored) and five were in double figures
Qadence Samuels led the Pack with a season-high 16 points off 7-of-10 from the field with five rebounds and two assists
Pierre and Trygger each earned double-doubles for the second consecutive game, as Pierre finished with 14 points and 12 rebounds and Trygger had 13 points and 10 boards. Both were +38
Brooks tallied 11 points and Jones had 15 points off the bench after missing Thursday's game at Clemson
Adelaide Jernigan enjoyed an ACC-high nine points
The Pack won the battle in points off turnovers (19-11), points in the paint (42-20), second chance (16-2), fast breaks (18-11) and bench points (33-13)

SERIES HISTORY (SERIES TIED 1-1)

NC State and Wake Forest are meeting for the 96th time of the all-time series on Thursday and the first of two times this season
The first meeting was in 1975, resulting in a 76-63 win for NC State
The Pack has won the last 12 meetings overall and last six in Winston-Salem
NC State is 34-8 in games played in Winston-Salem
Last season, Brooks logged a team-high 18 points with five assists in the game on the road and 17 points with six boards at home. Jones had 17 points and Trygger finished with 12 in the game at Wake Forest

UPCOMING
NC State will come back home to host No. 9/10 Louisville at Reynolds Coliseum on Sunday, Jan. 18 at 1 p.m.

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Players Mentioned

Zoe Brooks

Adelaide Jernigan

Zamareya Jones

Khamil Pierre

Qadence Samuels

Tilda Trygger

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