North Carolina Tar Heels at Wake Forest Demon Deacons
· NCAA Men's Basketball
Hildreth scores 20 to help Wake Forest beat UNC 67-66, win 6th in a row
Tre’Von Spillers and Efton Reid III each scored 10 second-half points and finished with 12. Spillers added nine rebounds, four offensive, and four blocks.
Spillers made back-to-back baskets to spark a 12-2 run, capped by his three-point play that made it 65-56 with 1:17 to play.
RJ Davis scored 21 points and Elliot Cadeau added 14 with a career-high 13 assists for North Carolina (12-8, 5-3 ACC). Davis hit three 3-pointers to extend his program record to 315 in his career and moved past Duke’s Jason Williams (313) into 11th in ACC history.
Wake Forest (15-4, 7-1) has won six games in a row since a 73-62 loss at Clemson on Dec. 21 — the Demon Deacons’ longest win streak in conference play since the 2004-05 season — and started the ACC slate 6-1 for the first time since 1996-97, when Tim Duncan helped the Demon Deacons win nine of their first 10 conference games.
Wake Forest used a 12-0 run to take a 49-39 lead when Sallis hit a jumper with 9:36 to play but the Tar Heels scored 15 of the next 19 points — including 3s by Davis, Cadeau and Jae’Lyn Withers — to take a one-point lead with 5:21 remaining.
The Tar Heels have lost their last four games at Wake Forest.
Wake Forest plays host to No. 2 Duke, and North Carolina returns home to take on Boston College, on Saturday.
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Recent Plays
| 2nd 0:00 | End of Game | 66 - 67 |
| 2nd 0:00 | End of 2nd half | 66 - 67 |
| 2nd 0:01 | RJ Davis made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Elliot Cadeau. | 66 - 67 |
| 2nd 0:01 | Foul on Cameron Hildreth. | 63 - 67 |
| 2nd 0:02 | Seth Trimble Defensive Rebound. | 63 - 67 |
Statistics
 UNC |
 WAKE |
|
|---|---|---|
| 26-65 | FG | 22-55 |
| 40 | Field Goal % | 40 |
| 8-32 | 3PT | 2-15 |
| 25 | Three Point % | 13 |
| 6-10 | FT | 21-27 |
| 60 | Free Throw % | 78 |
| 33 | Rebounds | 41 |
| 8 | Offensive Rebounds | 10 |
| 25 | Defensive Rebounds | 31 |
| 18 | Assists | 7 |
| 8 | Steals | 4 |
| 3 | Blocks | 7 |
| 12 | Turnovers | 14 |
| 0 | Team Turnovers | 0 |
| 12 | Total Turnovers | 14 |
| 2 | Technical Fouls | 2 |
| 2 | Total Technical Fouls | 2 |
| 0 | Flagrant Fouls | 0 |
| 18 | Points Off Turnovers | 11 |
| 12 | Fast Break Points | 0 |
| 32 | Points in Paint | 26 |
| 23 | Fouls | 17 |
| 9 | Largest Lead | 10 |
Game Information
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
Attendance: 12,799 | Capacity:
2025-26 Atlantic Coast Conference Standings
| TEAM | CONF | GB | OVER |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duke | 17-1 | - | 35-3 |
| Virginia | 15-3 | 2 | 30-6 |
| Miami | 13-5 | 4 | 26-9 |
| North Carolina | 12-6 | 5 | 24-9 |
| Clemson | 12-6 | 5 | 24-11 |
| Louisville | 11-7 | 6 | 24-11 |
| NC State | 10-8 | 7 | 20-14 |
| Florida State | 10-8 | 7 | 18-15 |
| California | 9-9 | 8 | 22-12 |
| Stanford | 9-9 | 8 | 20-13 |
| Virginia Tech | 8-10 | 9 | 19-13 |
| SMU | 8-10 | 9 | 20-14 |
| Wake Forest | 7-11 | 10 | 18-17 |
| Syracuse | 6-12 | 11 | 15-17 |
| Pittsburgh | 5-13 | 12 | 13-20 |
| Notre Dame | 4-14 | 13 | 13-18 |
| Boston College | 4-14 | 13 | 11-20 |
| Georgia Tech | 2-16 | 15 | 11-20 |