Wake gets by Radford

Teague leads way for Demon Deacons with 19 points

WINSTON-SALEM -- Jeff Teague scored 11 of his 19 points in the second half, and No. 6 Wake Forest shook off a sluggish start to beat Radford 83-61 on Tuesday night.

Freshman Al-Farouq Aminu added 18 points and 10 rebounds and James Johnson had 12 points and 12 boards for the Demon Deacons (12-0).

They closed the game by outscoring Radford 36-13 over the final 14 minutes and shot nearly 53 percent in the second half to keep alive their best start since 2000-01 and dodge what would have been one of the season's biggest upsets so far.

Artsiom Parakhouski had 15 points and 16 rebounds to lead Radford (4-9), which remained winless against nonconference teams from Division I and fell to 0-15 against ACC schools.

But for a while, the Highlanders held their own against Wake Forest.

The seemingly disinterested Demon Deacons couldn't get much of anything going against the Highlanders, who confounded them by switching between man and two zone defenses. Radford took a 48-47 lead on Parakhouski's putback with 14:11 remaining -- roughly 2 1/2 minutes after an exasperated Wake Forest coach Dino Gaudio benched all five starters.

Once he put them back a few seconds after Parakhouski's basket, they showed they got the message.

Teague hit a layup off an inbounds pass to put the Demon Deacons ahead to stay and start the decisive burst. Wake Forest took its first double-figure lead when Johnson's coast-to-coast layup made it 66-55 with 7 1/2 minutes left, and pushed the lead to 21 when Aminu's layup with 1 1/2 minutes to play made it 80-59.

NO. 6 WAKE FOREST 83, RADFORD 61

FGFTReb

RadfordMinM-AM-AO-TAPFPts

Lynch-Flohr337-120-11-71214

Parakhouski346-163-67-161415

McDuffy363-90-02-6127

Johnson372-112-20-2437

Thomas296-110-02-60414

McEachin60-10-00-0110

Martin101-20-01-1032

Hall151-20-01-5032

Team2

Totals20026-645-916-4582261

Three-point goals: 4-12, .333 (Thomas 2-3, Johnson 1-4, McDuffy 1-4, McEachin 0-1). Blocked shots: 2 (Parakhouski, Hall). Turnovers: 22 (Johnson 7, McDuffy 5, Thomas 3, McEachin 3, Parakhouski 2, Hall, Lynch-Flohr). Steals: 7 (Johnson 3, Parakhouski 2, Lynch-Flohr, Thomas).

FGFTReb

WFUMinM-AM-AO-TAPFPts

Aminu247-154-74-102218

Johnson296-110-14-125112

McFarland212-86-63-50210

Teague296-137-70-11119

Williams242-51-30-1005

Clark113-50-00-0028

Hale122-41-10-1106

Smith241-30-00-2202

Walker10-00-00-1000

Weaver141-21-21-3023

Woods110-20-01-2030

Team1

Totals20030-6820-2714-39111383

Three-point goals: 3-11, .273 (Clark 2-3, Hale 1-2, Johnson 0-1, Williams 0-2, Teague 0-3). Blocked shots: 3 (Weaver, Woods, Aminu). Turnovers: 9 (Williams 3, McFarland 2, Aminu 2, Johnson, Hale). Steals: 10 (Teague 4, Johnson 3, McFarland, Weaver, Smith).

Radford3229--61

Wake Forest3944--83

A--11,253.