After a disappointing, 6-5 loss to the Kentucky Wildcats in the Morgantown Regional yesterday, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons have a tall task ahead of them: winning four consecutive games to stay alive.
While Wake Forest wasn’t the only favored seed to lose over the course of the day, the inability to capitalize on a first-game win significantly hampers their potential to make it to Omaha. If the Demon Deacons were to make it out of the Morgantown regional, they would’ve expected to take on national No. 1-seeded UCLA- but, like the Demon Deacons, the Bruins fell in an upset yesterday as well.
Although Wake Forest has a daunting mission ahead of them, their road to Omaha now begins with what has become a familiar foe over recent years.
The Good News
While Wake Forest did suffer their first defeat of the NCAA Tournament yesterday, they were not the only ones to lose in Morgantown. The No. 4-seeded Binghamton Bearcats took a 10-1 beating by the host West Virginia Mountaineers, and find themselves in a similar position to the Demon Deacons…