NEW YORK — By the time Wake Forest stumbled off the court having watched a double-digit lead turn into an absolutely catastrophic and entirely avoidable loss, the Demon Deacons had 5,817 self-inflicted minutes of agonizing waiting ahead of them.
Five thousand, eight hundred and seventeen long minutes before Wake Forest gets the news that’s all too likely, now, after this loss, to be devastating.
The one thing Wake Forest’s NCAA tournament selection profile – with very few good wins and an abysmal strength of nonconference schedule – could not abide was an unacceptable loss. And that’s a generous way to describe Wednesday’s 82-77 overtime loss to Boston College.
