Deacons Illustrated

1 week ago | wakeforest.rivals.com | Conor O'Neill

Two of these teams played each other this season and the other two was a fever dream super regional matchup that wasn’t to be last year. Wake Forest is in the Knoxville regional as the No. 2 seed in the NCAA tournament. The Deacons would have gone to Tennessee last year if they had won the Greenville regional; instead, they lost two games and No. 4 seed Evansville made it to Knoxville.

1 week ago | wakeforest.rivals.com | Conor O'Neill

Wake Forest is headed to Knoxville for the NCAA tournament. Wake’s baseball team is the No. 2 seed in the Knoxville regional, which begins Friday. The Deacons will play No. 3 seed Cincinnati in their first game of the regional, which is a double-elimination format. Other teams in the regional are No. 1 seed Tennessee, the reigning national champion, and No. 4 seed Miami (Ohio). Wake Forest is 36-20 this season. The ACC record was 16-14, finishing eighth in the 16-team league.

2 weeks ago | wakeforest.rivals.com | Conor O'Neill

Jaylen Cross wants to make impact on defensive endDeacons' incoming freshman knows what area of the game he can help Wake Forest next season

2 weeks ago | wakeforest.rivals.com | Conor O'Neill

DURHAM – The pitching was more horrendous than the offense could overcome. Though, the latter wasn’t blameless in Wake Forest’s 14-12 loss to California in the second round of the ACC tournament on Wednesday at Durham Bulls Athletic Park. “We’ve got to be better than that,” coach Tom Walter said. “We had the right guys on the mound in the right situations. We just couldn’t get shut-down innings.”The totals on the mound were grotesque.

2 weeks ago | wakeforest.rivals.com | Conor O'Neill

My Take: An 18-game ACC schedule comes with contingenciesDropping two ACC games from the schedule will only matter if a couple of things happen