Wake Forest leaps to No. 1 for first time in school history
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McLEAN, Va. (SportsTicker) - Wake Forest took over the top spot in the USA Today/ESPN coaches poll but North Carolina and Arizona were the biggest losers.
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You could have stuffed a turkey with all the nits Wake Forest coach Skip Prosser seemed intent on picking after his team&#39;s 79-67 victory over Providence last night at Madison Square Garden.
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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, 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-and-two.
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Put to rest those derogatory nicknames for Wake Forest. There's nothing weak about the Demon Deacons under coach Jim Grobe.
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Wake Forest completed the finest road performance in Atlantic Coast Conference history against a team it had trouble beating anywhere.
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In the end, it wasn&#39;t about holding on to the No. 1 ranking or the Preseason NIT title or even the game. For Wake Forest&#39;s Eric Williams, it was just about holding on to the ball.
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With two starters on the bench, Wake Forest had a different look at the start of its game against Temple. The postgame celebration wasn&#39;t quite the same, either.
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As the nation&#39;s No. 1 team, Wake Forest looks pretty good. So just imagine how the Demon Deacons will look tonight if they can knock off fifth-ranked Illinois in Champaign, Ill.
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Wake improved to 6-1 in the Preseason NIT...The Demon Deacons beat George Washington on Monday in its first game as the No. 1 team...This was the first- ever meeting between the two schools. New York, NY (Sports
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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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Jeff Teague scored 26 points and Wake Forest shocked No. 2 Duke 86-73 on Sunday night, ending the Blue Devils' 12-game winning streak and giving first-year coach Dino Gaudio his first big victory as the heir of the late Skip Prosser's program.
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WINSTON-SALEM - To shake its latest ailment, the Wake Forest men&#39;s basketball team fed Eric Williams. He was eating it up in the second half, propelling the top-ranked (not-for-long) Demon Deacons to a 90-73
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Virginia moved into The Associated Press' men's college basketball Top 25 Monday, giving the Atlantic Coast Conference a record-tying seven teams in the poll. Wake Forest extended its lead at No. 1, the Cavaliers were No. 24, and there were five other conference schools in between, matching the feat accomplished twice by the Big Ten and once by the ACC.
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Memphis replaced North Carolina as the No. 1 team in college basketball Monday, the Tigers' first appearance in 25 years at the top of The Associated Press poll.
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Wake Forest celebrated its first appearance at No. 1 with an easy victory. Chris Paul, Eric Williams and Kyle Visser each scored 15 points to lead the Demon Deacons past Yale 99-72 Monday night.
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Taron Downey scores 18 points off the bench to lead No. 7 Wake Forest to an 83-63 victory over Virginia Tech, on Saturday.