WAKE POWERS PAST FRUSTRATED HEELS

Early big games at home are fun. Especially fun when you play well and win.

Enter No. 4 Wake Forest, who in front of a record Joel Coliseum crowd of 14,714 that included one-time Wake Forest guard Muggsy Bogues, former coach Dave Odom – and a student dressed as Dino from "The Flintstones" in honor of coach Dino Gaudio, held on for a 92-89 triumph over No. 3 North Carolina.

Jeff Teague (#0) had a career-high 34 points and Chas McFarland (#13) matched a season high with 20 points for the Demon Deacons (14-0, 1-0 ACC). Wake remains one of three unbeaten teams in D1, and doing so matches the 1980-81 team that also won its first 14 games.

Danny Green scored 22 points, and Wayne Ellington and Tyler Hansbrough added 17 apiece. Hansbrough's came on 3-of-12 shooting, and he missed all five of his shots in the second half for the Tar Heels (14-2, 0-2) who generally threw rocks at the basket.

In a span of eight days, the once-unanimous No. 1 team in the nation has lost two of three and shares last place in the ACC with Georgia Tech. UNC its first two league games for the first time since 1996-97, when it started 0-3.

Teague clearly outplayed his counterpart - North Carolina's Ty Lawson, who finished 4-for-12 from the field, missed all four of his 3s and turned it over four times. Deon Thompson also had a long and miserable evening missing ten of thirteen shots.

Teague entered with an ACC-leading average of 19.6 points - Hansbrough's average of 22 points would have been tops in the league had he played in at least 75 percent of the Tar Heels’ games.

But, like Tyrese Rice last Sunday, the Deacs point guard put on a show that ultimately carried the day.

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