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Wake Forest University is a private, coeducational university located in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The university's main campus, the Reynolda Campus is located north of downtown Winston-Salem, and the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center campus is located near downtown Winston-Salem. Their mascot is the Demon Deacon and their official uniform colors are old gold and black.
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About The Wake Forest Demon Deacons
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons Men's basketball team participates in the Atlantic Coast Conference and their homecourt is the 14,665 capacity Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum. Their only Final Four appearance was in 1962 and through the years thay have produced several NBA players. They 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. Wake Forest is generally regarded as a competitive program in men's basketball, frequently qualifying for the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship, 20 times in the school's history, and has made 16 straight postseason appearances through their NIT appearance in 2006, the longest such streak in the ACC.
They reached the Final Four once, in 1962, and their famous basketball alumni include Billy Packer, a guard on the 1962 Final Four team who became far more famous as a basketball broadcaster; Tyrone Curtis "Muggsy" Bogues, the shortest player ever to play in the NBA, Randolph Childress, for his MVP performance in the 1995 ACC Tournament; Dallas Mavericks star Josh Howard, Chris Paul of the New Orleans Hornets and the 2006 NBA Rookie of the Year Award, and two-time league MVP and three-time NBA Finals MVP Tim Duncan.
