Alondes Williams

Wake Forest needs to take final step to make NCAA Tournament

February 14, 2024 Shawn Krest

Wake Forest has come so far, but there is one big step still left to take. In December, when the NCAA released its first set of NET ratings — the metric the selection committee uses […]

College Basketball Preview: Wake Forest looks to win ‘the right games’ this year

October 26, 2022 Shawn Krest

Steve Forbes still hasn’t gotten over it. “If you had told me last year three things: that Alondes Williams is going to be Player of the Year, I’d have been like, ‘Yeah, right.’ If I […]

Duke, Wake Forest lead way on busy draft night

June 29, 2022 Shawn Krest

There was no barbeque or beach music in Brooklyn’s Barclays Center, but the NBA Draft had a North Carolina feel last week. Six players with connections to the Old North State were taken in the […]

Duke heads local contingent of NBA Draft hopefuls

June 22, 2022 Shawn Krest

Turns out there’s one more stop on the Coach K retirement tour. While Mike Krzyzewski has officially retired as Duke’s head coach and swears he won’t be attending any games next season, he will get […]

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Guess who’s Bacot: UNC big man coming back

April 19, 2022 Shawn Krest

Armando Bacot did something that’s never been done before last season. Then, in the offseason, he did something that’s become nearly as rare. Bacot set school and league records for double-doubles as he posted one […]

Overtime loss puts Deacons’ NCAA chances in jeopardy

March 9, 2022 Brett Friedlander

NEW YORK – There are bad losses. There are worse losses. And then there’s the loss Wake Forest suffered in the second round of the ACC Tournament on Wednesday. The fifth-seeded Deacons put their NCAA […]

Start spreading the news: ACC Tourney returns to New York

March 8, 2022 Shawn Krest

The ACC heads north this week to hold its gem event of the season in Brooklyn for the third time. The ACC Tournament returns to Barclays Center for the first time since the 2017 and […]

Wake Forest’s Williams, Forbes lead ACC basketball awards

March 7, 2022 The Associated Press

GREENSBORO — Wake Forest’s Alondes Williams and coach Steve Forbes have earned the top individual honors from the Atlantic Coast Conference. The league announced Williams as its player of the year and Forbes as its […]

Second-half surge produces ‘special’ finish to Wake’s regular season

March 3, 2022 Brett Friedlander

WINSTON-SALEM — Wake Forest’s two-point lead on NC State with 15:44 remaining Wednesday might have seemed precarious, especially given the way both teams were playing at the time. Recent history, however, suggested otherwise. A little […]

Deacons ride hot start to rout of Louisville

February 26, 2022 Brett Friedlander

WINSTON-SALEM — The Wake Forest basketball team probably wasn’t playing for its NCAA Tournament life on Saturday. But you never would have known it the way the Deacons came out against Louisville. Coach Steve Forbes’ […]