| Wake Forest Demon Deacons The ACC schedule works in three-year cycles. Each team is assigned two permanent partners and nine rotating partners. Teams play their permanent partners in a home-and-away series each year. The rotating partners are split into three groups: three teams who are played in a home-and-away series, three teams who are played at home, and three teams who are played on the road. This creates an intra-conference schedule of 16 games against 11 Atlantic Coast Conference teams. The Wake Forest Demon Deacons’s two permanent partners are the North Carolina State Wolf Pack and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. The rotating partner groups are rotated every three years. Home court for the Demon Deacons is the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum, a 14,407-seat multi-purpose arena commonly referred to as the Joel on the Wake Forest campus in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Wake Forest men’s basketball program is overshadowed in North Carolina by the North Carolina Tar Heels, the North Carolina State Wolf Pack and the Duke Blue Devils. The Deacons were in the Final Four once, in 1962. The Deacons finished the 2007-08 season in 7 th place in the ACC, behind North Carolina, Duke, Clemson, Virginia Tech, Miami and Maryland. In July of 2007 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Head Coach Skip Prosser passed away unexpectedly. Prosser began his head coaching career at Loyola, leading the a team to its first-ever NCAA Tournament berth in 1993-94, his only season with the team. Prior to Loyola, Prosser had spent eight seasons as an assistant coach at Xavier and when his former boss, Pete Gillen, left Xavier for Providence Prosser was hired as Gillen’s replacement. Prosser became the second-winningest coach in Xavier history. He began his career at Wake Forest in 2001 and led the Demon Deacons to the NCAA tournament in each of his first four years there. In the summer of 2007, Prosser had organized what was said to be a top-five recruiting class and that class was inherited by current Wake Forest Demon Deacons Head Coach Dino Joseph Gaudio, who was named as Prosser’s replacement in August, 2007, meaning he had no input in the recruiting that went into determining the players he had to work with in his first season. Gaudio has served as the head coach at the United States Military Academy and Loyola College and had been Prosser’s assistant coach. Gaudio had known Prosser since 1981, when he served as an assistant coach under Prosser at Central Catholic High School in Wheeling, West Virginia. Awesomeseating.com offers cheap tickets and luxury tickets for NCAA Basketball. We have NCAA Tournament Tickets as soon as the postseason line-up finalizes. Buy your cheap tickets to Wake Forest Demon Deacons basketball from your trusted ticket broker right now. |