UNC-Wake Forest Postgame Notes

GAME 20: WAKE FOREST 67, UNC 66
1/21/25 IN WINSTON-SALEM

• Carolina lost by a point in consecutive games for the first time since 87-86 losses to South Carolina and Duke (in triple overtime) in 1968.
• It was UNC's fourth straight loss at Wake Forest, the first time the Tar Heels have dropped four in a row to the Demon Deacons in Winston-Salem since 1962-65.
• Carolina led 31-29 at the half. UNC has lost back-to-back games after leading at halftime for the first time since 2020.
• Wake Forest's 67 points ended a 25-game streak in which the Tar Heels won when allowing fewer than 70 points.
• It was the ninth time this season a game was decided by one possession (three or fewer points). Carolina is 5-4 in those games.
• The nine one-possession games equal UNC's most in the three-point era (since the start of the 1986-87 season). Carolina went 8-1 in one-possession games in 2010-11.
• Carolina led 16-7. The nine-point lead was UNC's largest in a loss this season (previous high was seven in the previous game vs. Stanford).
• UNC attempted a season-high 32 three-pointers and made eight (25%). The Tar Heels are 1-4 when shooting 25% or lower from three.
• Wake Forest shot 29.6% from the floor and had no assists in the first half but made 13 of 16 free throws. The Deacs shot 50% from the floor in the second half and made their only two three-pointers in the midst of a 12-0 run that gave Wake Forest a 49-39 lead.
• The two 3FGs were the fewest by any opponent in a win over UNC since Wake Forest went 2 for 12 in a 73-67 win on 1/5/2014.
• Elliot Cadeau had 14 points and a career-high 13 assists for his second career double-double. The 13 assists were the most by a Tar Heel since Kendall Marshall had 13 at NC State on 2/22/2012.
• Cadeau made or assisted on 18 of Carolina's 26 field goals (69.2%). That was the second-highest percentage of field goals scored and assisted ever by a Tar Heel. Phil Ford (11 FGs, 10 assists) accounted for 72.4% against Seton Hall on 12/4/1975.
• Cadeau's 13 assists equaled the most by a Tar Heel vs. Wake Forest (Ed Cota had 13 on 2/12/2000).
• RJ Davis led UNC in scoring with 21 points, his 51st career 20-point game.

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Elliot Cadeau

RJ Davis

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