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Easy I here WSSU is pretty good.

 

You need to do some soul searching. Or maybe you just need a nap.

 

Duke's thrashing of Concordia is directly related to this thread as it shows Duke was able to beat a team considerably weaker than them, while Wake struggled. Shouldnt you be having a grade school bitch-fest with Collin?

 

No this is a Wake thread. You don't seem to get that. You're apparently stupud. How can you compare Wake vs WSSU to Duke vs Concordia, when you don't know who'd win between WSSU and Concordia? Dumb ass you brought nothing to the table by posting that.

 

WSSU would beat Concordia, which isn’t even relevant to what I was talking about, but Duke would beat WSSU similarly to how they beat Concordia, meaning basically Wake is way overrated, which is what you said moron. You say I brought nothing to the table, but you post about 10 threads in here weekly from Inside Carolina and act like that means you know what you're talking about. Woo-hoo.

 

Another post, no quality. Keep it up

 

I did do a search. That's why I said what I said. You were the first to add a non-constructive post and then the first to bitch about it.

 

please find me 5 threads from Inside Carolina. In the last 2 weeks from Inside Carolina. Hell please find me ANY week I've posted even 5 threads from IC?? You posted a fucking Duke score in a Wake discussion. If you're too fucking stupud to realize the difference then you need way more help than I even imagined. All you were doing was trying to bring attention to the fact you knew a fucking Dook score. This is moreso reiterated in the fact that you reposted it. My god you are a pathetic loser.

 

No you didn't.

 

From what Coach Stitt said on TV before the game, he was not happy with how WSSU had practiced for two weeks and they also played without their 2 best players, Alleggrie Guinn, 13.1 ppg (6-3, Charlotte Independence) and Audly Wehner 14.6 ppg (6-6, Fayetteville EE Smith). The Rams were 22-8 overall and 14-2 in the CIAA.

Deacons hang on
Division II WSSU has impressive showing against Wake Forest in Twin City Shootout
By Dan Collins, Winston-Salem Journal Reporter

Winston-Salem State would love to extend its series with Wake Forest into the regular season next year, after the Rams move from Division II of the NCAA to Division I.

Last night's performance at Joel Coliseum probably didn't help those chances.

As Apollo Creed told underdog Rocky Balboa at the end of the movie Rocky, "There ain't going to be no rematch."

In a Twin City Shootout that certainly lived up to its name, Wake Forest deflected a determined upset bid to beat the Rams 88-84 in a game that wasn't settled until Justin Gray made two free throws with 6.2 seconds left.

Even with the Rams' two leading scorers from last year - Alleggrie Guinn and Audly Wehner - sitting out because of suspension and injury, the result was a far cry from Wake Forest's 89-61 rout a year ago.

"They were shocked a little bit," Corey Parker of the Rams said. "A couple of guys were asking us what we were dong playing strong and playing so well."

The Deacons never lost the lead from the time Michael Drum, a walk-on who started along with Justin Gray, Trent Strickland, Kyle Visser and Eric Williams, drilled a 3-point shot for a 65-64 edge with 10:04 left. But the Rams wouldn't go away, and pulled as close as 84-83 when Darrell Wonge sank a deep 3-point shot over Williams with 28 seconds remaining.

Williams said that the game was too close for comfort.

"It got kind of scary," Williams said.

Coach Philip Stitt of Winston-Salem State pointed out his team's psychological advantage over an ACC team expected to win, and win big. But the Rams chased the Deacons to the wire by hitting 10 of 21 3-point shots on a night when the Deacons made only 4 of 23.

Wake Forest survived a cold shooting night by Gray (1 for 9 on 3-point attempts) by getting 11 field goals on 12 attempts from Williams, who finished with 26 points and 10 rebounds in 32 minutes.

"Wake Forest is like any other team in the country, and no different from our kids," Stitt said. "They're in here playing a Division II team and that's probably the hardest job you've got to do as a coach, is convince them that these guys are good and that they can compete.

"And then to know that basically we had two All-American candidates sitting over there in suits. It becomes psychological. I don't think it's an indication of us right now, of how good we can be. And the same thing with Wake."

Parker, a transfer from Campbell, led the Rams with 21 points, Curtis Hines scored 12 and point guard Roy Peake finished with 10 points, six assists and two turnovers. Gray made 8 of 8 free throws to score 15 points, Drum scored 13 and Kyle Visser contributed 12 points, seven rebounds and five blocks.

Though decidedly smaller, the Rams gave Wake Forest fits by driving into the lane and kicking out for open 3-point shots. Hines made 4 of 9 from beyond the arc and Peak drilled 2 of 3.

The Deacons responded by falling back into a zone for one stretch of the second half.

"They were able to beat us off the bounce," said Coach Skip Prosser of Wake Forest. "So the penetration caused help and that gave them some open looks.

"But to their credit, they made 10 of them. We had some wide-open looks and we didn't make 10 threes."

The Deacons, by pounding the Rams inside, cruised to a 26-15 lead in the first 11 minutes. Parker then scored a driving basket, and Hines hit back-to-back 3-point shots to spark a 15-0 run that carried the Rams to a 30-26 lead.

Although Wake Forest led 42-41 at halftime, another 6-0 surge gave WSSU a 64-59 lead with 12 1/2 minutes remaining.

The Deacons responded with 12 straight points for a lead they would manage to hold.

In last night's first game, the Wake Forest women shot 66 percent in the second half on the way to a 97-43 victory over Winston-Salem State.

Cotelia Bond-Young of the Deacons scored 14 of her game-high 21 points in the second half and teammate Deirdre Naughton had with 19 points. Candice Saunders led Winston-Salem State with 10 points.

Leading 35-27 at half, the Deacons outscored the Rams 21-6 in the first 6 1/2 minutes of the second half.