Wake
Wake starts off the season with hushed expectations. I think we are going to be good, but I'm playing it down to myself because I thought last year were should have been good, and was very disappointed when we really weren't. Granted we still won 20 games and a tournament game, but it was a let down to where I thought we should have been. Last year I thought was going to be Wake's national coming out party.
Wake entered the season with 4 starters back, and 4 bench guys that played. We also have 2 freshman redshirts that could step in for some major playing time this year, so our rotations will be interesting for the first few sims while we feel out guys in positions.
Since we thought we would be ok we got into the "Chuck Taylor All Star Classic" which historically has been a good preseason tournament to get into in terms of other good teams also being in there. The hope was we would play some good teams to help the RPI since the schedule was a bit softer than it typically is.
First up was Villanova and we down them 80-69. It was a good start and David Olivarez went for 22 and 7 boards.
Next up was Drake and we down them 76-63. Andrew Weise had 19 and 11 this game, and picked up his 2nd straight player of the game award.
3rd game was against Oklahoma City. More of a challenge but a team we still should have handled, and we did winning 77-69. SF- Charles Oubre woke up from the first two games and went off for 26 points and his first POTG award this season.
The championship game was going to be our Test. We played Indiana who was ranked in the top 10 and this was the reason we came to a tournament like this. Ill leave the box score up for you guys to see what happened first
Code:
Wake Forest 82, Indiana 80
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Indiana (3-1, 0-0):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Ollie Monzon C 33 4-10 4-4 4 8 4 3 12
Burton Kennedy PF 32 2-10 0-1 2 11 2 3 4
Lambert Boutry SF 34 6-12 6-6 1 9 0 1 18
Trenton Boykin SG 20 5-8 0-0 0 3 1 5 10
Derek Domingo PG 28 9-14 0-0 1 3 4 3 18
Chris Armstead SG 22 6-8 2-3 0 1 2 4 14
Brett Shelton PG 6 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 2
Andrew Rieger PF 16 0-2 0-0 0 4 0 1 0
John Blakley SG 8 0-1 2-2 0 0 2 0 2
David Beauregard C 1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 0
Turnovers: 20 (O.Monzon 4, B.Kennedy 3, T.Boykin 3,
D.Domingo 4, C.Armstead 2, B.Shelton 2, A.Rieger 2)
Blocked Shots: 7 (O.Monzon 1, T.Boykin 2, C.Armstead 1,
A.Rieger 3)
Steals: 11 (O.Monzon 1, B.Kennedy 2, L.Boutry 3,
T.Boykin 2, B.Shelton 1, A.Rieger 2)
3P FGs: 0-0
Wake Forest (4-0, 0-0):
Player Pos Min Fgm-a Ftm-a Off Reb Ast PF Pts
Andrew Wiese C 28 4-11 0-0 8 12 1 3 8
David Olivarez PF 30 5-7 6-6 4 10 3 3 16
Charles Oubre SF 31 6-23 1-4 1 4 0 3 13
Patrik Dusek SG 34 5-15 0-0 0 3 7 0 10
Winston Robinson PG 30 6-14 0-0 1 2 5 4 12
James Hart SF 9 3-3 0-0 0 0 0 0 6
Arthur Baily PF 18 3-3 1-2 2 10 2 1 7
Mel Chasteen SF 1 0-0 2-2 0 0 0 1 2
Douglas Philips SG 17 2-5 2-3 1 3 3 2 6
David McCarty C 5 1-2 0-0 1 2 0 0 2
Turnovers: 18 (A.Wiese 1, D.Olivarez 4, C.Oubre 3,
P.Dusek 1, W.Robinson 6, J.Hart 1, A.Baily 1,
D.Philips 1)
Blocked Shots: 12 (A.Wiese 4, D.Olivarez 1, C.Oubre 1,
P.Dusek 1, A.Baily 4, D.McCarty 1)
Steals: 8 (A.Wiese 1, C.Oubre 1, P.Dusek 2, A.Baily 2,
D.Philips 2)
3P FGs: 0-0
Player of Game: PF David Olivarez (WAKE)
Honestly, we prob shouldn't have won that game. IU had every advantage that game in the stats department with the exception of Rebounds, Assists and Turnovers. They had 2 more turnovers than us. Where we won this game was in the possession department. IU shot 22-67 and We shot 35-83. Ill take the win, and ill also take the # 4 ranking in the game.
Our last game this sim was against Brian and his Georgia Tech squad. GT has been interesting over the past few seasons. I cant quite figure them out. They have the talent, but last year seemed to underachieve, and wasn't sure which team we were going to get here. The team that went to the Elite 8 two seasons ago or the team that went .500 last year. We take the game 86-67 and go undefeated during the first sim. Being ranked #4 in the nation is also pretty cool.
On the Recruiting front we have signed 2, but our 3rd still hasn't committed yet. We are hoping he does so soon.