About The Wake Forest Demon Deacons
Originally the Wake Forest team
was known as the Deacons. However, in 1941,
after a particularly good win against the
Duke Blue Devils, a newspaper reporter wrote
that the Deacons "fought like Demons,"
giving rise to the current team name, the
"Demon Deacons."
The Demon Deacons participate in the NCAA's
Division I (I-A for football) and in the Atlantic
Coast Conference. Recent athletic honors include
winning the regular-season ACC basketball
championship in 2003 under the leadership
of forward Josh Howard.
Wake Forest is generally regarded as a competitive
basketball team, one that often qualifies
for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship
(20 times in the school's history). They reached
the Final Four once, in 1962. They began the
2004 season ranked number one in the country.
The school's most famous basketball alumni
are Billy Packer, a guard on the 1962 Final
Four team who became far more famous as a
basketball broadcaster, and current NBA superstar
and two-time league MVP Tim Duncan.
Wake Forest has had several successful golf
teams, winning national championships in 1972,
1973 and 1986. Several well-known players
include Arnold Palmer, Curtis Strange and
Scott Hoch.
Their football team is historically poor,
though in the early 2000's they achieved moderate
success and attended bowl games. Of all schools
that play Division I-A football, only Rice
and Tulsa have smaller undergraduate enrollments.
Both the current head basketball coach, Skip
Prosser, formerly of Xavier, and football
coach, Jim Grobe, were signed to huge ten-year
contracts in 2003. The current Athletics Director
is Ron Wellman.
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