NCAA Tournament March Madness

#74 Wake Forest

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Projection: likely out

Wake Forest is projected out because its résumé contains encouraging neutral-site showings against Michigan and Texas Tech and a resume-building neutral win at Memphis, but those bright spots are swamped by damaging results such as the home loss to Oklahoma, the lopsided defeat to Vanderbilt and poor trips to Duke and North Carolina. Road signature wins are essentially missing despite a narrow road victory at Florida State and an earlier road loss at NC State so the upcoming home tests against NC State and Louisville and road trips to Virginia and Virginia Tech are the clearest paths to pick up the quality victories needed to change the committee’s view.

Date Opponent Ranking Outcome
11/3American Univ221W88-74
11/7Morehead St299W81-65
11/11(N)Michigan2L85-84
11/16MA Lowell319W109-75
11/20(N)Texas Tech18L84-83
11/21(N)Memphis105W69-68
11/25Campbell205W99-51
11/28Northeastern252W86-73
12/2Oklahoma61L86-68
12/6(N)West Virginia58W75-66
12/14Queens NC188W111-73
12/17Longwood274W71-68
12/21Vanderbilt12L98-67
12/31@NC State24L70-57
1/3Virginia Tech55W81-78
1/7Miami FL38L81-77
1/10@North Carolina28L87-84
1/17@Florida St101W69-68
1/20SMU37L91-79
1/24@Duke3L90-69
1/27@Pittsburgh100L80-76
1/31NC State2434%
2/7Louisville1929%
2/11@Georgia Tech12958%
2/14Stanford8164%
2/18Clemson2937%
2/21@Virginia Tech5534%
2/24@Boston College14563%
2/28Syracuse7762%
3/3@Virginia1612%
3/7California6658%