Wake Forest Demon Deacons | ||||
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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) |
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Nickname | Demon Deacons | |||
Colors | Old Gold and Black |
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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.