NCAA Tournament March Madness

#70 Wake Forest

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Projection: likely out

Wake Forest projects outside the field because its résumé mixes eye-catching neutral wins over Memphis and West Virginia and a gritty road victory at Florida State with damaging results that undercut that promise, namely a blowout home loss to Vanderbilt, an unimpressive home defeat to Oklahoma and close neutral setbacks to Michigan and Texas Tech. The team’s defense has shown up in those signature wins while the offense has been maddeningly inconsistent, leaving them thin on reliable road and neutral résumé beyond those moments. Upcoming opportunities include true road tests at Duke and Virginia, high-profile home dates with NC State and Louisville, an important trip to Pittsburgh and a home game against Stanford that all offer paths to reverse the narrative, but until Wake Forest turns some of those into quality victories the combination of bad home losses and streaky scoring makes it hard for the committee to put them on the right side of the bubble.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3American Univ210W88-74
11/7Morehead St298W81-65
11/11(N)Michigan1L85-84
11/16MA Lowell303W109-75
11/20(N)Texas Tech19L84-83
11/21(N)Memphis97W69-68
11/25Campbell182W99-51
11/28Northeastern236W86-73
12/2Oklahoma62L86-68
12/6(N)West Virginia57W75-66
12/14Queens NC162W111-73
12/17Longwood276W71-68
12/21Vanderbilt15L98-67
12/31@NC State27L70-57
1/3Virginia Tech56W81-78
1/7Miami FL37L81-77
1/10@North Carolina33L87-84
1/17@Florida St105W69-68
1/20SMU31L91-79
1/24@Duke35%
1/27@Pittsburgh9849%
1/31NC State2739%
2/7Louisville1628%
2/11@Georgia Tech12760%
2/14Stanford7663%
2/18Clemson2839%
2/21@Virginia Tech5634%
2/24@Boston College14865%
2/28Syracuse7162%
3/3@Virginia1211%
3/7California7563%