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WAKE FOREST BASKETBALL 2020-21 WAKE FOREST BASKETBALL Table of Contents . .1 Minutes/Games Records . 63 UNIVERSITY QUICK FACTS Quick Facts. .1 Double-Doubles. 64 Location . Winston-Salem, NC 27109 Wake Forest Sports Network . .2 Top Performances . 65 Founded . 1834 in Wake Forest, NC 2020-21 Roster . .3-4 Freshman Records. 66-67 Enrollment . 5,033 undergraduate Affiliation . NCAA Division I Team Records/Single Game. 68-71 Conference . Atlantic Coast 2020-21 DEMON DEACON PLAYERS Largest Margins . 72 Colors . Old Gold & Black Jahcobi Neath . .5 Largest Comebacks. 73 President . Dr. Nathan O. Hatch Isaiah Mucius. .6 Team Records/Season . 74-75 Faculty Athletic Representative Dr. Peter Brubaker Athletic Director . .John Currie Jalen Johnson . .7 Yearly Leaders. 76-77 Athletic Department Phone . (336) 758-4620 Daivien Williamson . .8 Overtimes. 77 Ticket Office Phone . (888) 758-DEAC Tariq Ingraham . .9 Miscellaneous Records. 78-79 Ian DuBose. 10 Opponent Records . 80-82 ARENA INFORMATION Arena Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum Quadry Adams . 11 Attendance Records . 83 Capacity . 14,665 Jonah Antonio . 12 Opened . 1989-90 Isaiah Wilkins. 13 WAKE FOREST BASKETBALL HISTORY Record in Facility . .360-127 Ismael Massoud . 14 All-Time Career Statistics. 84-87 Emmanuel Okpomo . 15 Year-by-Year Statistics . 88-89 PROGRAM HISTORY Years of Basketball. 114th Blake Buchanan . 16 LJVM Coliseum Records. 90 First Season of Basketball . 1906 Ody Oguama. 17 Home Courts . 91 All-Time Head Coaches . 23 Sunday Okeke. 18 ACC Tournament History . 92 All-Time Record . 1,553-1,258 Anthony Mathis Jr.. 19 ACC Tournament Records . 93 Winning Seasons . 66 20+ Win Seasons . 21 Grant van Beveren. 20 ACC Championships. 94-97 All-Time ACC Record. 444-552 Miles Lester . 21 NCAA Tournament History. 98 ACC Championships 4 (1961, 1962, 1995, 1996) NCAA Tournament Records . 99 Winning ACC Seasons . 24 WAKE FOREST BASKETBALL STAFF NCAA Tournament Recaps. .100-104 NCAA Tournament Appearances (Last) 23 (2017) NCAA Tournament Record. 28-23 Head Coach Steve Forbes. 22-23 Associated Press Rankings . 105 NCAA Sweet 16’s . 10 Asst. Coach Randolph Childress . 24 All-Time Letter-winners. .106-107 NCAA Elite Eight. .7 Asst. Coach BJ McKie . 25 All-Time Jersey Numbers . .108-109 NCAA Final Four. 1 (1962) Asst. Coach Brooks Savage. 26 ACC Honors . .110-111 NIT Appearances (Last) . 6 (2006) NIT Record . .10-5 Director of Ops Frank Davis . 27 All-Americans . .112-114 NIT Championships. 1 (2000) Dir. Player Development AntanasKavaliauskas . .28 National & District Honors . 115 Dir. Player Relations Joe Hugley . 29 Deacs in the NBA . .116-118 COACHING STAFF Video Coordinator Chris Forbes . 30 In-Season Tournaments/Events . 119 Head Coach . Steve Forbes Alma Mater, Year. Southern Arkansas ‘88 Dir. Sports Performance Mike Starke . 31 All-Time Series . .120-129 Record at Wake Forest . .0-0 Special Asst. Matt Woodley . 32 All-Time Series History . 130 Record Overall . 298-106 Administration . 33-35 Year-by-Year Results. .131-140 Assistant Coach . .Randolph Childress Years at WFU/Alma Mater . .9th / WFU ‘95 2019-20 SEASON IN REVIEW Assistant Coach . B.J. McKie Years at WFU/Alma Mater . 1st/South Carolina ‘99 Results . 36 Assistant Coach . .Brooks Savage Statistics . 37-38 Years at WFU/Alma Mater . .1st/Tennessee ‘08 Superlatives . 39 Dir. of Basketball Operations . .Frank Davis Points-Rebounds-Assists. 40 Years at WFU/Alma Mater . .1st/Tennessee Tech ‘10 Director of Athletic Performance . Mike Starke Box Scores . 41-48 Director of Player Development. Antanas Kavaliauskas Review . 49 Director of Player Relations . .Joe Hugley Video Coordinator. Chris Forbes WAKE FOREST RECORD BOOK Special Assistant. Matt Woodely Sports Medicine . Greg Collins All-Time Results . 50-51 Equipment Manager. Roxann Moody Coaching Records . 52 Basketball Office Phone. (336) 758-5622 ACC/NCAA Stat Leaders . 53 Scoring Records/1000 Point Club . 54-55 TEAM INFORMATION 2019-20 Overall Record . 13-18 Rebound Records/500 RB Club. 56-57 Home / Away / Neutral . .9-5/2-11/2-2 Field Goal Records. 58 2019-20 ACC Record / Finish . 6-14/13th Free Throw Records . 59 Overall Letterwinners Returning/Lost . .4/7 3-Point Records . 60 Starters Returning/Lost . .2/5 Assist/Turnover Records . 61 Newcomers . 7 Steal/Block/Foul Records . 62 @WakeMBB 1 WAKE FOREST BASKETBALL ONLINE & RADIO COVERAGE GODEACS.COM Updated statistics, game notes and complete stu- dent-athlete and coaching staff biographies for Wake Forest basketball, as well as all other Demon Deacon varsity sports, are available on the Wake Forest Athlet- ics homepage. Fans can also access live radio broadcasts, live up- to-the-second statistics, on-demand video and ticket information. SOCIAL MEDIA For instant updates on Wake Forest basket- ball, follow the program’s official Twitter account @WakeMBB. For complete coverage of the Deacons, follow @DemonDeacons on Twitter, “Like” Wake For- est Sports on Facebook or subscribe to the Wake Forest Athletics channel on YouTube. ON THE AIR WITH STAN & “DINGER” A Tennessee native and graduate of the University When Coach Steve Forbes and the Demon Dea- of Tennessee, Cotten began his broadcast career cons take the court, one of the most experienced while still a college student as Sports Director of Twitter... broadcast teams in the Atlantic Coast Confer- WIVK-FM in Knoxville, the flagship station of the @WakeMBB ence takes to the air on the Wake Forest Sports Vol Network. During that same time, Cotten also Network from Learfield IMG College. Anchoring began his play-by-play career calling football @DemonDeacons the statewide network and in its third decade and basketball games at nearby Carson-Newman @ForbesWakeHoops with Learfield IMG College and Demon Deacon University in Jefferson City. Before leaving for basketball is FM powerhouse WBRF with 100,000 Marshall in 1992, Cotten was the weeknight sports watts beaming the radio signal from the highest anchor at Knoxville TV station WTVK/WKXT while Facebook... point of Galax, Va., to Deacon fans in the Triad, still calling the play-by-play at C-N. Cotten was a FB.com/WakeBasketball Southwest Virginia and portions of upper East three-time Associated Press Broadcast Association FB.com/WakeForestSports Tennessee. In addition to WBRF at 98.1 on the FM award winner for his radio/TV work while in his dial and other network earth stations, Deacon fans home state. around the world can listen to the live play-by- Cotten will be alongside Coach Forbes for the Instagram... play of Wake Forest basketball on the Wake Forest weekly “Steve Forbes Show” which airs on Mon- @wakembb Gameday App (a free download), the TuneIn App day nights during the season from 7-8 p.m. East- or on the official athletics website GoDeacs.com. ern Time. Wake fans can also get Cotten’s unique @demondeacons Select games can also be heard on SiriusXM Satel- perspective on Deacon basketball in his column lite Radio. ‘100% Cotten’ which appears in Gold Rush, the YouTube... “Voice of the Demon Deacons” Stan Cotten and official magazine of Wake Forest athletics. analyst Mark Freidinger have a combined 56 years Analyst Mark Freidinger has been a fixture on the WakeForestAthletics covering Wake Forest and the ACC on the radio as radio covering Demon Deacon basketball since they enter the 2020-21 season, their 25th season 1990. He enters his 31st season with the Learfield together in Winston-Salem. They joined forces for IMG College team and brings a wealth of basket- the 1996-97 season when Wake Forest Sports Hall ball experience to the position. A former assistant of Famers Dave Odom and Tim Duncan were a coach at Wake Forest, “Dinger” was part of more BROADCAST SCHEDULE formidable duo and have been on the mic calling than 100 Demon Deacon victories from 1980-85. Every Wake Forest men’s basketball game, home the action ever since. He was on the bench in 1984 when Wake Forest and away, is broadcast live on the Wake Forest Award winning sportscaster Stan Cotten is in his maneuvered its way through the NCAA Tourna- Sports Network from Learfield IMG College. Cover- 25th season as the “Voice of the Demon Deacons” ment all the way to the Elite Eight. age begins 30 minutes before tipoff. In addition to after coming to Winston-Salem following four “Dinger” was also a head coach for a time in his the network of radio affiliates, fans anywhere can seasons at Marshall as the “Voice of the Thunder- career leading his alma mater Rollins College for listen to the live play-by-play of Wake Forest bas- ing Herd.” Cotten is a four-time North Carolina three seasons where he fashioned a 53-32 record. ketball on the Wake Forest Gameday App (a free “Sportscaster of the Year” as voted by his peers Before leaving to become an assistant at Wake download), the TuneIn App or on the official ath- in the National Sports Media Association and this Forest, Freidinger became one of the youngest letics website GoDeacs.com. Select games can also past summer was inducted into the Greater Knox- coaches in college basketball at age 28 heading be heard on SiriusXM Satellite Radio. ville Sports Hall of Fame. the Division II program where he played both bas- ketball and baseball. WAKE FOREST SPORTS NETWORK General Manager . Jeff Salisbury Email [email protected] Play-By-Play Announcer . .Stan Cotten Email . [email protected] Analyst. .Mark Freidinger Studio Host . .Phil Brame Flagship Station WBRF-FM 98.1.