The women’s basketball team enters today’s first-round ACC Tournament game against Miami with high hopes after finishing the regular season with its second-best league record ever and with a chance to make the NCAA Tournament for only the second time.
Ads for Sunday’s Super Bowl cost as much as $3 million for every 30-second spot, but the exposure is worth the expense, says marketing professor Sheri Bridges, an expert on branding and advertising.
Ishmael Smith scored 21 points, and Wake Forest jumped on Virginia early, taking a 19-point halftime lead before holding on for a 69-57 victory over the first-place Cavaliers at Joel Coliseum Saturday.
Wake Forest ran away from North Carolina in the second half behind senior Ishmael Smith and freshmen Ari Stewart and C.J. Harris to defeat the Tar Heels, 82-69, in Chapel Hill Wednesday night.
The women’s basketball team upset No. 25 Miami, 67-64, on Sunday, the Deacons first win over a ranked opponent since 2007. In Durham, No. 8 Duke went on a run in the second half to break open a tight game to defeat the men’s basketball team, 90-70.
Four Deacons were selected in the first round of the Major League Soccer SuperDraft on Thursday — Ike Opara, Zack Schilawski, Corben Bone and Austin da Luz — the first time that one school has had four players taken in the first round.
Wake Forest missed three shots in the last 13 seconds and Miami held on for a 67-66 victory Saturday night. Senior L.D. Williams scored 17 points to lead the Deacons.
Freshman C.J. Harris was expected to have an impact on the Wake Forest basketball team, but no one expected him to have so big an impact so soon in his first year.
