I still believe Forbes is the guy that can make that happen.Basketball Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Cross Country Cross Country: Schedule Cross Country: Roster Cross Country: News Football Football: Schedule Football: Roster Football: News Tennis Tennis: Schedule Tennis: Roster Tennis: News Track & Field Track & Field: Schedule Track & Field: Roster Track & Field: News Wrestling Wrestling: Schedule Wrestling: Roster Wrestling: News Basketball Basketball: Schedule Basketball: Roster Basketball: News Bowling Bowling: Schedule Bowling: Roster Bowling: News Cross Country Cross Country: Schedule Cross Country: Roster Cross Country: News Softball Softball: Schedule Softball: Roster Softball: News Tennis Tennis: Schedule Tennis: Roster Tennis: News Track & Field Track & Field: Schedule Track & Field: Roster Track & Field: News Volleyball Volleyball: Schedule Volleyball: Roster Volleyball: News Acrobatics and Tumbling Acrobatics and Tumbling: Schedule Acrobatics and Tumbling: Roster Acrobatics and Tumbling: News Cheerleading Cheerleading: Schedule Cheerleading: Roster Cheerleading: News Mission Director of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton Staff Directory Compliance Athletics Communications Sports Medicine Strength & Conditioning Student-Athlete Success This is Morgan State University President David Wilson Morgan State - NCAA B.E.A.R. While I think everyone would agree Forbes is a much better coach than the previous two Wake Forest coaches, at some point, Wake has to start getting back to the NCAA Tournament on a consistent basis. ![]() With Forbes’s first recruiting class becoming juniors and a team with plenty of upperclassman transfers, the fanbase will probably become pretty impatient if Wake fails to make the big dance for the third straight season. ![]() The Deacs so far are right on schedule with where they need to be, but next season might be NCAA Tournament or bust for the Steve Forbes. I’ve said it before, but this is basically year 2 for Forbes, as he got the job kind of late in 2020 and then the whole world shut down. Forbes will probably have to go to the portal to find a primary ball handler, but I think Wake Forest can be a top 5 ACC team next season. Add to that 3 4-star prospects coming in during the offseason, and the Deacs should have a pretty solid team going into 2023-24. It’s hard to say right now who will be back for the Deacs next season given the current nature of the transfer portal, but Wake will hopefully return 5 players that started at some point during the season in Hildreth, Marsh, Klintman, Damari Monsanto, and Andrew Carr-that’s 5 of Wake’s top 7 scorers from this season. He has a ton of potential and that perfect combination of size and athleticism that NBA teams really love-if he improves his ball handling and perimeter scoring next season, I could see him becoming a first-round draft pick. If Klintman makes a similar sophomore jump to that of Hildreth and Marsh, next year could very well be his final season at Wake Forest. Bobi Klintman really came into his own towards the end of the season and looks like he could be an All-ACC caliber player next year. Marsh likewise increased his scoring from 2.8 to 6.1 points per game and shot a ridiculous 88% from the floor this season. Hildreth increased his scoring from 4 points to 12.4 points per game while nearly doubling both his assists and rebounds from his freshman season. Cam Hildreth and Matthew Marsh both made great jumps in production between their freshman and sophomore seasons. ![]() It’s definitely not great to miss out on the NCAA Tournament and the NIT, but there were some positives to take away from this season. Those losses alongside just a single Q1 win over Duke did not make for a compelling resume to get the Deacs into a postseason tournament this year. A pretty bad Q4 loss at home to Boston College and a couple of Q3 losses to Loyola Marymount and LSU early in the season really did a number on the Deacs’ NET ranking, which finished at 90 for the season. The Deacs finished the season 19-14 overall and 10-10 in conference play, but that was not enough to get a bid to the National Invitational Tournament.ĭespite winning double digit games in the ACC for the second consecutive season, the Deacs apparently did not do enough during the season to get a bid to the NIT. ![]() The 2022-23 basketball season has officially come to an end as Wake Forest was left out of NIT field.
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