Wake Forest Demon Deacons NCAA Basketball Betting
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons were a disappointment this year. Wake Forest Was expected to contend for an NCAA Tournament spot without much difficulty but instead was exposed as a team that was not quite there. As the season on the bubble ended, Wake Forest was left holding an empty bag. Head coach Steve Forbes leads a program that is swimming upstream agaisnt other ACC programs that have more to offer with NIL and other benefits that the Demon Deacons can’t match. Thus, Wake Forest faces an uncertain future against programs like Duke and North Carolina. A season of hope has turned into a future of doubt for Wake Forest.
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2025 Wake Forest Demon Deacons Season Recap
Overall, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons are 21-10 straight up, 13-17-1 against the spread, and 13-18 over/under the total. Wake Forest has national metrics of 270th for scoring offense, 180th for field goal percentage, 356th for 3-point field goal percentage, 61st for free throw percentage, and 292nd for offensive rebounding. While defensively, Wake Forest is 63rd for scoring defense, 26th for field goal percentage permitted, 31st for 3-point field goal percentage allowed, and 209th for defensive rebounding.
Lately, Wake Forest has covered two of its previous eight games and has gone over the total in four of its last six outings. First among Wake Forest scorers is Hunter Sallis, with 18.2 points per game.
RJ Davis scored 23 points and connected on key 3-point shots as North Carolina fended off Wake Forest for a 68-59 victory in the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament quarterfinal Thursday afternoon.
Ven-Allen Lubin and Seth Trimble added 10 points apiece for North Carolina, which won for the second day in a row and avenged a one-point road loss to Wake from the regular season.
Davis shot 5-for-6 on 3-pointers but missed all three attempts from inside the arc. He went 8-for-8 on free throws in a hotly contested matchup.
North Carolina has made a late-season charge and figures to be contending for an NCAA Tournament bid. The Tar Heels have won eight of their last nine games, with the loss coming last Saturday night to visiting Duke.
Hunter Sallis poured in 25 points, and Tre’Von Spillers racked up 10 points for Wake Forest, which shot 33.9 percent from the field and missed 11 of its last 12 shots from the floor. The Demon Deacons shot 2-for-22 from the 3-point arc.
Part of Wake Forest’s shooting woes came from two blocked shots by Lubin late in the game. Lubin also had 13 rebounds. Wake Forest became the first higher-seeded team to lose in the tournament as all the favored teams, based on seedings, had won.
North Carolina missed 15 of 16 shots during a nearly 12-minute stretch in the second half, yet led 57-56 on Jae’Lyn Withers’ 3-pointer.
Lubin’s free throw with 3:14 left broke a tie, and Davis followed with a 3-pointer on the Tar Heels’ next possession. The triple came after one of Lubin’s blocked shots.
“I thought we played another outstanding game today,” Wake Forest head coach Steve Forbes said. “We had tremendous effort, fight, resilience, no quit. I thought we represented our team and school to the highest level today. Had a chance to win it. It would have been a hell of a story if we could have made it. Back-to-back buzzer beaters would have been something else, but it wasn’t in the cards.”
Miami head coach Jim Larranaga spoke well of the Deacs.
“I don’t consider them a middling ACC team,” Larrañaga said. “We’re very fortunate that we won today. Tyree Appleby [is] the leading scorer in our league and leader in assists, one of the best point guards in the country. Their size bothered us. We took the ball to the basket and almost every one of our guys got (a shot) blocked.”
Latest NCAA Tournament Results
| YEAR |
RESULT |
| 2017 |
Lost First Four vs. (11) Kansas State 88–95 |
| 2010 |
Lost Second Round vs. (1) Kentucky 60–90 |
| 2009 |
Lost First Round vs. (11) Cleveland State 69–84 |
| 2005 |
Lost Second Round vs. (7) West Virginia 105–107 (2OT) |
| 2004 |
Lost Sweet Sixteen vs. (1) Saint Joseph's 80–84 |
| 2003 |
Lost Second Round vs. (10) Auburn 62–68 |
| 2002 |
Lost Second Round vs. (2) Oregon 87–92 |
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