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With WF Basketball now in full-time practice mode and with the season just a little more than a month a way, its time for this season's WF basketball thread.
CBS Sports just released their ACC Basketball Preview article, and their 5 "experts" (Matt Norlander, Garry Parrish, Jerry Palm, Kyle Boone and David Cobb) were not kind to the Deacs. 4 of the 5 picked WF DFL (15th in the ACC) and the other picked WF 14th. Here is their perfunctory take on the WF season:
We'll slot the Demon Deacons at the bottom of the ACC barrel due to Steve Forbes taking over for Danny Manning and undeniably inheriting a huge construction project. The good news for Wake Forest is Forbes and his staff have already made some waves with some transfer additions and recruits for 2021, but this upcoming season is all house money. Forbes built East Tennessee State into one of the best mid-major programs in the country. Now he'll try to get Wake back into the top-third of the league.
The link: https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/how-kentuckys-olivier-sarr-could-play-after-ncaa-gives-extra-year-of-eligibility-to-basketball-players/
FWIW, Garrison Brooks is their pick for POY. Duke's Jalen Johnson is the FOY. UVA, Duke and UNC is the consensus top 3. Shocker.
If there was an over under bet on where WF will finish in the ACC and the number was 14.5, I would take WF to finish better than DFL.
CBS Sports just released their ACC Basketball Preview article, and their 5 "experts" (Matt Norlander, Garry Parrish, Jerry Palm, Kyle Boone and David Cobb) were not kind to the Deacs. 4 of the 5 picked WF DFL (15th in the ACC) and the other picked WF 14th. Here is their perfunctory take on the WF season:
We'll slot the Demon Deacons at the bottom of the ACC barrel due to Steve Forbes taking over for Danny Manning and undeniably inheriting a huge construction project. The good news for Wake Forest is Forbes and his staff have already made some waves with some transfer additions and recruits for 2021, but this upcoming season is all house money. Forbes built East Tennessee State into one of the best mid-major programs in the country. Now he'll try to get Wake back into the top-third of the league.
The link: https://www.cbssports.com/college-basketball/news/how-kentuckys-olivier-sarr-could-play-after-ncaa-gives-extra-year-of-eligibility-to-basketball-players/
FWIW, Garrison Brooks is their pick for POY. Duke's Jalen Johnson is the FOY. UVA, Duke and UNC is the consensus top 3. Shocker.
If there was an over under bet on where WF will finish in the ACC and the number was 14.5, I would take WF to finish better than DFL.