head coach in his first year is chris mack. love, frease, lyons, holloway and crawford and wake forest, they come in with a couple losses at home, william and mary and purdue. three guards, smith, williams, and c.j. harris, aminu and david weaver also get the starting nod tonight for wake forest. the officials for tonight's game, it is an outstanding crew as usual. we are just moments away from the opening tip-off between these two teams. wake forest 10-2, 6-1 at home. they have had one acc victory over north carolina state. xavier 0-2 on the road coming in this game. when we were talking about this game and seeing the familiarity, does it come down to the back court if you're wake forest? >> dan: ron, it's very interesting. wake forest has to be able to get ishmael smith off. he's got to be able to get into the lane, create opportunities for al-farouq aminu and his teammates. for xavier jason love has to be able to battle effectively inside. xavier has to fight off wake forest inside and for wake forest they have to win the ba

chris mack said we have to pick it up, and they did that versus lsu and it's carried over to tonight's smith. harris back on top. aminu, three fouls in the first 20 minutes. a couple ball fakes, love up and under. love gets a piece of it. >> dan: aminu has got to be careful. usually guys can be careful on the defensive end, but it's on the offensive end where they sometimes get in trouble with charges. >> ron: lyons, glad he's okay, back in the lineup. can't get the scoop shot to go. here is smith. c.j. harris for three. mcfarland, offensive rebound. tries to spin it around, can't hit it. xavier will have the basketball. no, it's a foul. dino gaudio can't believe it. >> dan: c.j. harris, ron, shot that ball from three feet beyond the three-point arc when there was nobody around him. he didn't have to -- you don't get extra points for moving further back from the three-point arc, as we get a look at our leading scorers. mclean coming off the bench, just a fantastic first half with frease and love in foul trouble. >> ron: 7 of 8 from the free-throw line for mclean. nice pick by c.j. harr

. >> ron: chris mack is going to call a time-out.e. >> dan: let's take a look at jordan crawford, the last possession trying to get around l.d. williams. like you said -- >> dan: it's a great screen by frease and crawford does a nice job getting the ball up over mcfarland because that means there's a mismatch in size. even if he misses it, frease is underneath the basket and frease forced l.d. williams to tip it out. each of these teams, we've talked all night long about how they play similar styles. each of these teams like to set screens for the guy dribbling the ball and i think those ball screens and how those ball screens are defended may hold the key to the rest of this game. >> ron: well, we were going to honor skip prosser, and it would be a game we're seeing tonight. a tough game, good defense, solid offense. this is what the skip prosser classic is all about, the first of a ten-year contract between these two schools. as you mentioned at the top of the show, four players on wake's team either recruited or played for coach p