Al-Farouq Aminu and James Johnson each scored a game-high 21 points to lead No. 10 Wake Forest to a 96-88 win over No. 18 Clemson on Sunday night in front of a sold-out crowd at the Joel Coliseum. Wake Forest earned the second seed in the ACC Tournament and will play on Friday at 7 p.m. against the Maryland/N.C. State winner.
In 1988, Alice Neal led the Wake Forest women’s basketball team to the program’s only NCAA Tournament appearance, and on Saturday, the ACC honored her in its fifth class of ACC Women’s Basketball Legends.
The women’s basketball team appeared headed for the biggest win in school history before top-ranked Maryland rallied from 12 points down to take a 72-70 win in the ACC tournament quarterfinals on Friday. Wake Forest (19-11) will have to wait until Monday to find out if the season will continue in the NCAA tournament or the WNIT.
Wake Forest defeated N.C. State 59-54 in the opening round of the ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament on Thursday, the first tournament victory for the Lady Deacons since 2005. The ninth-seeded Deacons advance to play top-seed Maryland on Friday afternoon.
Freshman Al-Farouq Aminu scored 16 points and grabbed 14 rebounds, and 10th-ranked Wake Forest won its third game in six days with a 65-63 come-from-behind win over Maryland Tuesday night.
Long-hidden letters from the Holocaust brought two Wake Forest professors — one whose parents were Jewish and one whose parents were German — together to bond over a shared tragedy.
The ninth-seeded women’s basketball team faces eighth-seeded N.C. State in the opening round of the ACC Women’s Basketball Tournament today at 3 p.m. at the Greensboro Coliseum. The game will be televised on Fox Sports South.
