Wake Forest Demon Deacons vs Kansas State Wildcats

MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIP - SOUTH REGION - FIRST FOUR

21-13

Final

	1	2	T
Kansas St KSU	40	55	95
Wake Forest WAKE	36	52	88

Wake Forest Demon DeaconsWake ForestWAKE

19-14

Kansas State Wildcats

starters
Dean WadeD. Wade#32
Wes IwunduW. Iwundu#25
D.J. JohnsonD.J. Johnson#4
Kamau StokesK. Stokes#3
Barry Brown Jr.B. Brown Jr.#5
bench
Xavier SneedX. Sneed#20
Isaiah MauriceI. Maurice#10
Brian PatrickB. Patrick#11
Carlbe Ervin IIC. Ervin II#1
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
23	8	3-4	0-1	2-3	2	2	2	0	0	0	2	2
35	24	6-9	1-2	11-13	6	7	2	1	0	1	5	3
34	18	8-9	0-0	2-2	6	0	0	0	3	3	3	4
30	22	5-9	5-8	7-8	2	3	5	1	0	0	2	3
38	14	6-10	0-2	2-4	5	3	0	0	0	0	5	3
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
12	2	0-2	0-2	2-4	2	2	2	4	0	0	2	3
6	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	1	0	0	0	1	3
5	0	0-1	0-1	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
17	7	3-3	0-0	1-2	4	1	3	0	0	2	2	4
	95	31-47	6-16	27-36	29	18	15	6	3	7	22	26
		66%	38%	75%

Wake Forest Demon Deacons

starters
John CollinsJ. Collins#20
Dinos MitoglouD. Mitoglou#44
Austin AriansA. Arians#34
Bryant CrawfordB. Crawford#13
Keyshawn WoodsK. Woods#1
bench
Greg McClintonG. McClinton#11
Samuel Japhet-MathiasS. Japhet-Mathias#25
Brandon ChildressB. Childress#0
Mitchell WilbekinM. Wilbekin#10
Trent VanHornT. VanHorn#43
team

MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
36	26	9-13	0-0	8-8	9	0	2	1	0	4	5	2
29	7	1-5	1-4	4-6	2	0	0	1	0	1	1	4
19	17	5-7	4-5	3-3	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	3
36	20	5-11	1-5	9-9	4	10	4	3	1	1	3	3
34	4	2-8	0-5	0-0	1	3	2	0	0	0	1	5
MIN	PTS	FG	3PT	FT	REB	AST	TO	STL	BLK	OREB	DREB	PF
4	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
2	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
16	7	1-5	1-4	4-4	1	1	2	1	0	0	1	2
23	7	2-4	2-4	1-2	1	0	0	2	0	0	1	1
1	0	0-0	0-0	0-0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
	88	25-53	9-27	29-32	21	14	11	8	1	7	14	25
		47%	33%	91%

Game Information

Dayton, OH

Referee:Nathan Farrell

Referee:Jeff Anderson

Referee:Bill McCarthy

NCAA Division I

Big 12 Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Arizona	10-1	-	23-1
Houston	10-1	-	22-2
Kansas	9-2	1	19-5
Iowa State	8-3	2	21-3
Texas Tech	8-3	2	18-6
BYU	6-5	4	18-6
UCF	6-5	4	17-6
West Virginia	6-5	4	15-9
TCU	5-6	5	15-9
Cincinnati	5-7	5.5	13-12
Oklahoma State	4-7	6	16-8
Colorado	4-8	6.5	14-11
Arizona State	4-8	6.5	13-12
Baylor	3-9	7.5	13-11
Kansas State	1-10	9	10-14
Utah	1-10	9	9-15

Atlantic Coast Conference	CONF	GB	OVR
Duke	11-1	-	22-2
Virginia	10-2	1	21-3
Clemson	10-2	1	20-5
NC State	9-3	2	18-7
Miami	8-3	2.5	19-5
Louisville	8-4	3	18-6
North Carolina	7-4	3.5	19-5
SMU	6-5	4.5	17-7
Virginia Tech	6-6	5	17-8
California	5-7	6	17-8
Stanford	5-7	6	16-9
Syracuse	5-7	6	14-11
Florida State	4-7	6.5	11-13
Wake Forest	3-8	7.5	12-12
Boston College	2-9	8.5	9-15
Georgia Tech	2-10	9	11-14
Notre Dame	2-10	9	11-14
Pittsburgh	2-10	9	9-16

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