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Richmond Defeats Wake Forest 91-82

Turnovers were quite costly.

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons (2-1) fell to the Richmond Spiders (2-1) 91-82. The Deacs won the rebounding battle by 16 and had 11 more free throw attempts than Richmond, but also had 20 turnovers to Richmond's 6. The Spiders attempted 13 more field goals than Wake did, and also made 48% of threes. Ultimately, the turnovers proved to matter the most.

(Numbers are in percentages)

Wake Forest found themselves down just two points at halftime. This was despite Mitchell Wilbekin playing limited minutes due to foul trouble, and playing two walk-ons together for not insignificant stretches of the game.