NCAA Tournament March Madness

#77 Wake Forest

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Projection: likely out

Wake Forest’s profile flashes a few encouraging moments—a neutral-site victory over West Virginia, a tight neutral win over Memphis, road wins at Florida State and Georgia Tech, and home victories over Stanford, Clemson and Syracuse—but those bright spots are overwhelmed by damaging setbacks, including heavy losses to Oklahoma and Vanderbilt, an ugly road drubbing at Duke, a lopsided loss at Virginia Tech and multiple setbacks to NC State and Louisville that expose trouble closing against quality opponents away from home. The nonconference ledger is padded with low-major opponents that do little to offset the bad losses, and while a home date with California offers a final opportunity to add a meaningful win, Wake still needs a signature road or neutral victory against a respected opponent to erase the resume holes that keep it on the outside.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3American Univ243W88-74
11/7Morehead St275W81-65
11/11(N)Michigan2L85-84
11/16MA Lowell320W109-75
11/20(N)Texas Tech14L84-83
11/21(N)Memphis130W69-68
11/25Campbell190W99-51
11/28Northeastern284W86-73
12/2Oklahoma47L86-68
12/6(N)West Virginia56W75-66
12/14Queens NC192W111-73
12/17Longwood272W71-68
12/21Vanderbilt15L98-67
12/31@NC State35L70-57
1/3Virginia Tech57W81-78
1/7Miami FL28L81-77
1/10@North Carolina29L87-84
1/17@Florida St70W69-68
1/20SMU43L91-79
1/24@Duke1L90-69
1/27@Pittsburgh101L80-76
1/31NC State35L96-78
2/7Louisville17L88-80
2/11@Georgia Tech169W83-67
2/14Stanford61W68-63
2/18Clemson38W85-77
2/21@Virginia Tech57L82-63
2/25@Boston College161L68-67
2/28Syracuse80W88-83
3/3@Virginia19L75-70
3/7California6959%