Dallas Walton added 17 points for Wake Forest (8-1, 1-0 ACC), which shot 63.5 percent from the field, including 66.7 percent in the second half. Virginia Tech (6-3, 0-1) entered the game as the nation’s second-best scoring defense team, allowing just 53.4 points per game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Alondes Williams had 10 points, nine assists and seven rebounds, and Jake LaRavia had 10 points and seven rebounds.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Keve Aluma had 23 points and Justyn Mutts accounted for 15 for the Hokies, who committed nine turnovers in the second half and 12 overall.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
LaRavia’s pair of free throws gave the Demon Deacons an 18-point bulge at 72-54. They upped the lead to 20 on Williams’ layup with 3:55 to play.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Wake Forest led only 38-34 at halftime, but the Demon Deacons exploded in the second half, outscoring the Hokies 42-27. Williamson scored 11 in the half on 5-of-7 shooting.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Aluma kept Virginia Tech close with a 3-pointer with 16:44 left that brought the Hokies to within 48-41. Virginia Tech scored the game’s next four points to close to within 48-45 on Nahiem Alleyne’s free throws at 16:03.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
From that point, Wake Forest used a 32-16 burst to close out the game.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Wake Forest stormed out to a 5-0 lead in the game’s first two minutes, and Virginia Tech never led on Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Virginia Tech cut the margin to 32-28 on a Mutts layup with 3:30 remaining in the first half, but the Hokies couldn’t get any closer than four points before halftime. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
Aluma finished the first half with 18 points on 6-of-8 shooting, including 3-of-4 from behind the arc.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
–Field Level Media<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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