Wake Forest Edges Arizona to Win NIT
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Justin Gray scored 21 points for the second straight game and No. 1 Wake Forest beat No. 18 Arizona 63-60 Friday night in the championship game of the 16-team Preseason NIT, a game that had a March feel to it in late November.
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Chris Paul scored 21 points and Justin Gray had six in a 13-0 run early in the second half and No. 5 Wake Forest won its seventh straight game, 89-70 over No. 25 Virginia on Sunday.
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PHILADELPHIA - As sophomore Dustin Salisberyâs desperation three-point attempt with two seconds remaining sailed awry, so did the hopes of a Temple upset over #6/5 Wake Forest , who escaped with a 67-64 win on Monday night at the Liacouras Center .
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Wake Forest finally won with defense, even if it wasn&#39;t how coach Skip Prosser would like to draw it up. His man-to-man didn&#39;t work, and neither did a triangle-in-two.
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Maryland finally earns its first ACC road win of this season, holding off a late charge by Wake Forest to notch a 79-72 victory over the Demon Deacons on Saturday.
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Trent Strickland makes sure No. 6 Wake Forest avoids a loss to Temple Monday night by scoring nine points in the last nine minutes in the Demon Deacons' 67-64 win.
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Chris Paul scored 15 of his 23 points in the second half and No. 5 Wake Forest's backcourt proved too tough for New Mexico in an 81-64 victory on Wednesday night.
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PHILADELPHIA (Sports Network) - Eric Williams scored 17  points on 7-of-10 shooting from the field to lead sixth-ranked  Wake Forest to a 67-64 win over Temple at the Liacouras Center.
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A poor first half and an off night from its star guard were not enough to derail the No. 1 team in the country. Wake Forest proved a couple of things last night at Madison Square Garden: that
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Trent Strickland didn't demand the ball. He wanted to guard the player who had it. Strickland scored all nine of his points over the final 9 minutes and played solid defense down the stretch, leading No. 6 Wake Forest to a 67-64 victory over Temple on Monday night.
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For more than 25 minutes last night, the No. 1 team in the nation looked awfully ordinary, awfully ripe for the taking. But with the national ranking the Wake Forest basketball program
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Wake Forest finally won with defense yesterday, even if it wasn&#39;t how coach Skip Prosser would like to draw it up. His man-to-man didn&#39;t work, and neither did a triangle-in-two.
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Justin Gray refused to let a shot to his face upset his game, and his second-half shooting protected Wake Forest's No. 1 status Wednesday night. The top-ranked Demon Deacons survived some hot shooting by Providence's Ryan Gomes at Madison Square Garden, defeating the Friars 79-67 in the semifinals of the Preseason NIT.
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Wake Forest reached No. 1 for the first time, switching places with Kansas atop The Associated Press men's basketball poll Monday &#151; even though the Jayhawks didn't lose.
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Chris Paul, Eric Williams and Kyle Visser each scored 15 points to lead the Demon Deacons past Yale 99-72 Monday night. Chris Ellis added 14 points for Wake Forest (3-0), which had five players in double figures.
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By ROB DANIELS  WINSTON-SALEM __ Relieved? Sure.  But if the 2-0 Wake Forest Demon Deacons are at all cocky about the start to their season, a look at the Connecticut Huskies offense should bring a little humility.
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There were moments when No. 1 Wake Forest looked every bit like the best team in the country in its semifinal victory over Providence in the Preseason NIT.