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Appalachian Travels to Winston-Salem to Face Wake Forest Saturday - Appalachian State Mountaineers | Official Athletics Site
Appalachian Travels to Winston-Salem to Face Wake Forest Saturday
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After celebrating the Thanksgiving holiday, the Appalachian State University men's basketball team returns to action for the second of its four games against ACC competition on Saturday versus Wake Forest at 2 p.m. Due to ASU's football playoff contest, the men's basketball contest will be broadcast across the High Country on Mac FM 100.7. The broadcast will also be streamed on the internet and can be heard by clicking here. Drew Branyon and Adam Hicks will take to the airwaves from Joel Coliseum at 1:30 p.m. Live Stats Live Streaming Video Game Notes The game is ASU's fourth of the season after going 2-1 in its previous three contests with wins over North Greenville and Montreat and a loss at Clemson. Wake Forest is off to its fourth 4-0 start under head coach Skip Prosser after defeating Vanderbilt, 88-78, on Tuesday evening at Joel Coliseum. Center Kyle Visser has led the team in scoring in three games and is averaging 20.3 points and nine rebounds per outing. Freshman point guard Ishmael Smith led the team with 17 points against Vanderbilt and is averaging more than eight assists per game. As a team, the Demon Deacons are converting on 51 percent of their shots from the floor and 39 percent of their three-point attempts. This is the 20th meeting on the hardwood between the two institutions and the just the second since the 1995-96 season. Wake Forest has owned the series with a 19-0 mark against the Mountaineers. All previous meetings have been staged in Winston-Salem with the exception of the 1978 contest that was held in Greensboro, N.C. Only the last three meetings have taken place on the parquet at the Joel Coliseum, a 83-73 loss in 1993, a 91-50 defeat on December 18, 1995 and last season's 91-78 loss on November 25. Wake Forest has won by an average of 21.5 points in the previous 19 meetings. The closest ASU has come to defeating WFU came in a 64-62 loss on December 8, 1984. Sophomore Eduardo Bermudez scored a career-high 21 points to lead ASU to a hard-fought 78-63 win over Montreat on Monday. His 21 points bettered his previous career high by nine. He finished the evening going 6-of-10 from the field and perfect 8-of-8 from the free-throw line in 24 minutes of action. Junior Jeremy Clayton recorded his sixth career double-double with 12 points and 13 rebounds against Montreat. His 13 boards was one shy of matching a career high. His five blocks however, did match his previous career high. Clayton did the bulk of his damage in the first three minutes of the contest, scoring six points and blocking three shots to give ASU a quick 12-3 lead. After being held without a block in its season-opener for the first time since the 2004-05 season, Appalachian's interior players have reasserted ASU's reputation as one of the top shot-blocking teams in the SoCon with seven blocks in the last two games. The Mountaineers blocked eight shots against Montreat, their most since blocking nine shots against Georgia Southern in overtime last season. Jeremy Clayton led ASU in blocks against Montreat with a career-high five blocks while Doug McLaughlin-Williams also notched a career high with three. Clayton has now had multiple blocks in 25 of the 59 games he has appeared in (42 percent). In addition, he moved past Chris McFarland into fifth place on ASU's career blocks list with 97. He needs nine more to move into sole possession of fourth place.
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