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Wake Forest Demon Deacons basketball

Wake Forest Demon Deacons
2016–17 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team
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University Wake Forest University
Head coach Danny Manning (4th season)
Conference Atlantic Coast Conference
Location Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Arena Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum
(Capacity: 14,665)
Nickname Demon Deacons
Colors Old Gold and Black
         
Uniforms
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Home jersey
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Team colours
Home
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Away jersey
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Team colours
Away
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Alternate jersey
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Team colours
Alternate
NCAA Tournament Final Four
1962
NCAA Tournament Elite Eight
1939, 1961, 1962, 1977, 1984, 1996
NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen
1953, 1961, 1962, 1977, 1984, 1993, 1995, 1996, 2004
NCAA Tournament Round of 32
1977, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1991, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2010
NCAA Tournament appearances
1939, 1953, 1961, 1962, 1977, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2009, 2010, 2017
Conference tournament champions
1953, 1961, 1962, 1995, 1996
Conference regular season champions
1939, 1960, 1962, 1995, 2003

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team participates in the Atlantic Coast Conference and their homecourt is the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Wake Forest made the Final Four in 1962 and through the years, the program has produced many NBA players. The Demon Deacons have won the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament four times, in 1961, 1962, 1995, and 1996. Wake Forest's biggest rivalries are with the North Carolina Tar Heels, the Duke Blue Devils and the NC State Wolfpack. The most recent coach is Danny Manning, who was hired on April 4, 2014.

The Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum (also known as The Joel) is a 14,407-seat multi-purpose arena in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. It was named after Lawrence Joel, an Army medic from Winston-Salem who was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1967 for action in Vietnam on November 8, 1965. The memorial was designed by James Ford in New York, and includes the poem "The Fallen" engraved on an interior wall. It is home to Wake Forest's men's and women's basketball teams, and is adjacent to the Dixie Classic Fairgrounds. The arena replaced the old Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum, which was torn down for the LJVM Coliseum's construction.


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