Bucknell Bison at Wake Forest Demon Deacons

Woods scores 22, Wake Forest routs Bucknell 94-74

Keyshawn Woods scored 22 points with five of Wake Forest's 13 3-pointers in a 94-74 win over Bucknell on Sunday.

John Collins added 19 points and Mitchell Wilbekin had 13 to help the Demon Deacons (2-0) sweep a short, season-opening homestand, with this win coming less than 48 hours after a 21-point rout of Radford.

Dinos Mitoglou finished with 11 points and Austin Arians had 10 for Wake Forest, which shot 50 percent both from the field and behind the arc, while matching a high for 3-pointers under third-year coach Danny Manning. The Demon Deacons also made 13 in a loss at Virginia Tech last January .

"You're not going to shoot 50 percent from the 3-point line on a regular basis," Manning said. "We're going to have to make shots throughout the course of the year to have success."

"I'll take that every game," Manning said.

Zach Thomas scored 16 points and Kimbal Mackenzie finished with 15 for the Bison (1-1), who shot 45 percent and clawed back into the game by turning 15 offensive rebounds into 22 second-chance points.

Manning has said this is the best outside shooting team he's had in Winston-Salem, and it was hard to argue against that while the Demon Deacons made seven of their first nine 3-pointers to put Bucknell in an early hole.

"Every time we made a mistake, and sometimes when we didn't, they made it," Bucknell coach Nathan Davis said.

BIG PICTURE

Bucknell: Though they still haven't beaten a team in the Atlantic Coast Conference at the time since 1961, the Bison showed signs that they will be a factor in the Patriot League race with a knack for getting to loose balls and turning them into buckets. But fouls were a problem for the Bison, who had two players pick up their fourth fouls in the first half. Davis said his team "showed a lot of character" in clawing back from 16 points down and "had a chance to make it interesting."

STAT SHEET

Wake Forest was 23 of 29 from the free-throw line while Bucknell was just 5 of 9.

TIP-INS

UP NEXT

Bucknell: The Bison return home to face Robert Morris on Wednesday night before beginning play in the Las Vegas Invitational.

Wake Forest: The Demon Deacons head to Charleston, South Carolina, for three games in the Charleston Classic, starting with a matchup with UTEP on Thursday.

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