The 2017–18 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team represented Wake Forest University during the 2017–18 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Demon Deacons were led by fourth-year head coach Danny Manning and played their home games at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, North Carolina as members of the Atlantic Coast Conference. They finished the season 11–20, 4–14 in ACC play to finish in 14th place. They lost in the first round of the ACC tournament to Syracuse.
Previous season The Demon Deacons finished 2016–17 season 19–14, 9–9 in ACC play to finish in tenth place. They defeated Boston College in the first round of the ACC tournament to advance to the second round where they lost to Virginia Tech. They received an at-large bid to the NCAA tournament as a No. 11 seed in the South region. There they lost in the First Four to Kansas State.
Offseason
Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure Grey McClinton 11 G 6'7" 200 RS Junior Winston-Salem, NC Graduate transferred to Old Dominion John Collins 20 F 6'10" 225 Sophomore West Palm Beach, FL Declare for 2017 NBA draft Austin Arians 34 F 6'6" 200 RS Senior Stoughton, WI Graduated Trent VanHorn 43 G 6'3" 215 Senior Fort Wayne, IN Graduated Konstantinos Mitoglou 44 F 6'10" 245 Junior Thessaloniki, Greece Signed to play professionally in Greece with Panathinaikos B.C.
Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous School Terrence Thompson 20 F 6'7" 217 Senior Durham, NC Transferred from Marshall. Will be eligible to play immediately since Thompson graduated from Marshall.
2017 recruiting class
2018 recruiting class
Roster
Schedule and results
!colspan=9 style=| Exhibition
!colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style=| ACC regular season
!colspan=9 style=| ACC tournament
References