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WINSTON-SALEM -- Hunter Sallis scored 15 of his 20 points in the second half, Cameron Hildreth added 18 points and six assists and Wake Forest beat Western Carolina 82-69 Tuesday night.
Parker Friedrichsen hit four of the Demon Deacons' 12 3-pointers and finished with 14 points. Each team shot 43% from the field but Wake Forest scored 22 points off 21 Western Carolina turnovers.
Cord Stansberry and Ice Emery scored 20 points apiece for Western Carolina.
The Demon Deacons hit four 3s, two by Friedrichsen, and Hildreth converted a three-point play before Sallis hit a jumper to cap a 22-3 run that gave them the lead for good and made it 3620 with 5:24 left in the first half. Stansberry scored eight points -- including two 3-pointers -- as Western Carolina answered with a 12-3 spurt that trimmed its deficit to seven before Wake Forest took a 44-34 lead into halftime.
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Stansberry made a 3-pointer that pulled the Catamounts to 48-46 with 17:23 to play but they got no closer. Sallis hit a jumper in the lane to spark a 20-5 run over the next 9 minutes and Churchill Abass scored in the paint to give the Demon Deacons the biggest lead at 74-50.
Sallis, who spent his first two seasons at Gonzaga, hit a jumper with about 5 minutes to go in the first half to give him 1,000 career points and now has 1,015, including 714 at Wake Forest.
MONDAY
North Carolina State 72, Colgate 49
Ben Middlebrooks finished with 19 points off the bench and Marcus Hill scored 17 to lead North Carolina State to a victory over Colgate.
Middlebrooks sank 5 of 8 shots from the floor and all nine of his free throws for the Wolfpack. Hill made 6 of 10 shots and 5 of 6 at the foul line.
Brandon Huntley-Hatfield scored 11 for North Carolina State and Dontrez Styles grabbed 11 rebounds to go with seven points.
Ten different players scored points for Colgate, led by the nine of Nicolas Louis-Jacques.
Jalen Cox hit a jumper to give Colgate a 6-2 lead, but it was all downhill for the Raiders from there.
Huntley-Hatfield had the first two baskets in a 17-0 run that Marcus Hill finished off with a three-point play and a layup to make it 19-6 and North Carolina State was never threatened from there.
Middlebrooks and Huntley-Hatfield had eight points by halftime and Hill scored seven to send the Wolfpack into the locker room up 40-22.
North Carolina State shot 44.4% from the floor but just 21.4% from beyond the arc (3 for 14). The Wolfpack went 21 for 26 at the free-throw (80.8%).
The Raiders shot 33.3% overall and missed 21 of 26 from distance. They were 2 for 5 at the foul line.
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