Tonight Wake Forest honors its 1995 ACC basketball champions 25 years after their title run through Duke, UVa. and UNC.
I was very thankful to be at Wake during an absolutely incredible time for basketball. A class ahead of Tim Duncan, I got to celebrate ACC tourney titles during half of my college years. For perspective, the Deacs have claimed a total of four ACC tournament championships in the nearly 70 years of the event.
Wake’s current lost decade of hoops (see below) makes me feel even more lucky… but tonight it’s about very special college memories. Here’s to some ‘90s cut-down-the-nets nostalgia. Go Deacs!
[REBLOG of “MARCH SADNESS: WF, WTF and the What-Ifs” post from March 2019]
Good Deacon hoops can sometimes feel like a vintage painting in a museum.
Put a ‘T’ between the W and F, it’s been said many a time during the current Wake Forest basketball depression. The saying is played, unlike the NCAA Tournament for the Deacs in seven of the past eight years.
Wake has posted only two winning seasons since 2010. In the two decades before that, the once-proud program of Tim Duncan and Chris Paul had only one losing season while eclipsing 20 wins 12 times.
Here in yet another missed March Madness, let us move past the WTFs, Deacon Nation… to the What-Ifs.
My top 10 (pre-depression):
10. What if referee Fred Hikel hadn’t ruled that Wake’s successful length-of-the-court inbound pass grazed the Greensboro Coliseum scoreboard with 33 seconds left in the 1975 ACC tourney game against North Carolina?
Just last month, long-time Greensboro New & Record sportswriter…
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