No. 2 Wake Forest Rips George Washington
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Chris Paul scored 25 points and six assists to lift Wake Forest past George Washington 97-76 in the Preseason NIT in the Demon Deacons' debut as the nation's second-ranked team.
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WINSTON-SALEM, NC -- Wake Forest alternated between thrilling and ragged in its debut as the second-ranked men&#39;s basketball team Monday.
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Wake Forest completed the finest road performance in Atlantic Coast Conference history against a team it had trouble beating anywhere. Now, after defeating Maryland 38-24 Saturday night, the No. 20 Demon Deacons will take their successful road show to Florida to play for the league championship.
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Justin Gray scored 18 points, Eric Williams added 15 and No. 6 Wake Forest held off North Carolina State 86-75 on Thursday night.
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Top-ranked teams might want to think twice about visiting Assembly Hall. Roger Powell Jr. scored 19 points, Dee Brown and Luther Head added 16 each and No. 5 Illinois made No. 1 Wake Forest look more like a nonconference patsy in a 91-73 rout Wednesday night. The Illini led by double-digits for the last 28-plus minutes of the game, and were up by as much as 32 in the second half.
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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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Defense -- a foreign concept to Wake Forest last season -- was the key in the Deacons&#39; raucous, season-opening 97-76 men&#39;s basketball victory Monday against George Washington at Joel Coliseum.
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Wake Forest overcame a subpar offensive performance Tuesday night, holding Miami to 33 percent shooting in the second half to win 68-63 and retain its lead in the Atlantic Coast Conference.
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WINSTON-SALEM - After Saturday&#39;s homecoming game against Florida State, the Wake Forest football team was probably trying to decide what was worse - losing its fourth close Atlantic Coast Conference game of the season or coming 4:32 away from upsetting
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George Washington successfully bounces back from its first conference loss in two years as the 20th-ranked Colonials paste La Salle, 50-32, on Wednesday.
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Roger Powell Jr. scored 19 points, Dee Brown and Luther Head added 16 each, and No. 5 Illinois made No. 1 Wake Forest look more like a nonconference patsy in a 91-73 rout last night at Champaign, Ill.
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Williams finished with 16 points...Wake Forest advanced to a second-round home game Thursday against Virginia Commonwealth. VCU defeated American, 82-76.
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For a few minutes, George Washington looked again like the dynamic team that beat Maryland and Michigan State last month. Fast breaks were converted at a dizzying pace, and Pops Mensah-Bonsu was dunking away. But the Colonials couldn't hold an eight-point, first-half lead, and a 3-pointer at the buzzer by Xavier meant a 66-65 loss Tuesday night, erasing once and for all any notion that George Washington still belongs in the Top 25.
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Darius Washington scores 15 of his 17 points in the second half on Friday night to lead Memphis to a 62-51 win over Purdue, which is off to its worst start in nearly 100 years.
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The learning curve toward victories over good to very good teams has been a slick hairpin turn this season for Wake Forest, a point that was again painfully evident after last night&#39;s 20-17
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Wake Forest's NCAA free-throw record ended at a most inopportune time.
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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.