Al-Farouq Aminu

"He has a tendency to avoid shots, but he's one of the team's most athletic players," writes Reid. Aminu can look great at times and then disappear at others, so Reid's assessment is right on par. In 20 games as a starter, he's averaging 7.8 points, 6.8 ...  

I talked with Al-Farouq Aminu about his blog and learned a thing or two about our most athletic player. If you hadn’t heard, the bird is the word. That’s a true story. Another true story is that Farouq started his blog in part to overcome ...  

Monty Williams praised Aminu for playing through his injury, although the specificity of exactly what he's dealing with has not been revealed. It doesn't sound like he's in danger of missing any playing time, but this news is unlikely to impact many ...  

Aminu played 25 minutes off the bench and caught fire on a night when Trevor Ariza couldn't throw it in the ocean. As long as Ariza is healthy, stat lines like this should be few and far between for Aminu.  

Al Farouq-Aminu is expected to start at SF in Ariza's absence. Al-Farouq's numbers in seven starts this year are not too promising -- 5.3 points on 31 percent shooting, 6.9 rebounds, 2.0 assists and 1.3 steals.  

Having exhausted his eligibility last fall, West Davidson product Josh Bush is still making an impact on Wake Forest’s football team this ... picking off two passes as one of the stars of the Demon Deacons spring game on Saturday that he’s paying ...  

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons came to town on Saturday, hoping to break their 10-game conference winless streak. Not only did they exit winless from the season, they did not get to experience an on the set win during the day. Sophomores Klara Vyskocilova ...  

Tabb, a native of Raleigh, N.C., was dismissed from the Demon Deacons squad in February 2011 for "conduct detrimental to the team." He later plead guilty to stealing a classmate's IPod and attempting to pawn it. As a freshman at Wake Forest, Tabb averaged ...  

Tony Chennault is close to transferring to Villanova, according to sources close to the situation. Chennault recently opted to leave Wake Forest to be closer to home because his mother has been experiencing health problems. The 6-foot-2 guard will have two ...  

Former Wake Forest star Randolph Childress has been named the Demon Deacons' director of player development. Childress had spent nearly a year as an assistant to athletic director Ron Wellman. Childress "exemplifies our vision of winning championships ...  

WINSTON-SALEM — Former Wake Forest star Randolph Childress is the Demon Deacons' new director of player development. Coach Jeff Bzdelik said Wednesday that Childress earned a full-time job on his staff after spending nearly a year as an assistant to ...  

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - Former Wake Forest star Randolph Childress is the Demon Deacons' new director of player development. Coach Jeff Bzdelik said Wednesday that Childress earned a full-time job on his staff after spending nearly a year as an ...  

Hoover returns to Wake Forest where she starred for the Demon Deacons from 1987-91. She was a three-time All-ACC selection and still holds the school's career records for points (1,728) and rebounds (1,006). Hoover was a member of the ACC Academic Honor ...  

Coming into this past weekend’s series against the Wake Forest Demon Deacons, you had the feeling that the Hurricanes needed to win two out of three games at the minimum. After it was all said and done, they did just that. It’s hard to get too excited ...  

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced on Thursday the game times for four of Wake Forest's football games for the 2012 season. The Demon Deacons will open the season at home against Liberty on Saturday, Sept. 1 at 6:30 p.m. That game will can be seen on ...  

The Atlantic Coast Conference announced on Thursday the game times for four of Wake Forest's football games for the 2012 season. The Demon Deacons will open the season at home against Liberty on Saturday, Sept. 1 at 6:30 p.m. That game will can be seen on ...  

WINSTON-SALEM, NC -Wake Forest scored all five of its runs and collected all six of its hits in the third and fourth innings and held on for a 5-2 victory over Clemson Thursday night.  The Demon Deacons improved to 30-22 overall and 11-17 in the ACC.  

... fourth innings and held on for a 5-2 victory over Clemson in front of 648 fans at Wake Forest Baseball Park on Thursday night.  The Demon Deacons, who took a 1-0 series lead, improved to 30-22 overall and 11-17 in the ACC.  The Tigers... » Read More  

... third and fourth innings and held on for a 5-2 victory over Clemson in front of 648 fans at Wake Forest Baseball Park on Thursday night. The Demon Deacons (30-22, 11-17) hit five singles in the third inning to score three runs, then a two-out double ...  

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Wake Forest totaled all five of its runs and all six of its hits in the third and fourth innings and held on for a 5-2 victory over Clemson Thursday. The Demon Deacons (30-22, 11-17 ACC) took a 1-0 lead in the best-of-three series.  

... third and fourth innings and held on for a 5-2 victory over Clemson in front of 648 fans at Wake Forest Baseball Park on Thursday night. The Demon Deacons, who took a 1-0 series lead, improved to 30-22 overall and 11-17 in the ACC. The Tigers fell to ...  

... a scoreless tie and Wake Forest held on for a 2-1 win over Clemson in front of 1,241 fans at Wake Forest Baseball Park on Friday night. The Demon Deacons, who took a 2-0 series lead and clinched a spot in the ACC Tournament, improved to 31-22 overall ...  

... six two-out runs in the fifth inning and blanked Clemson 7-0 in front of 1,461 fans at Wake Forest Baseball Park on Saturday afternoon. The Demon Deacons, who swept the series 3-0, improved to 32-22 overall and 13-17 in the ACC. The Tigers, who lost ...  

Winston-Salem, N.C.--Heading into the postseason on a high note is the goal for every team. For Head Coach Tom Walter and Wake Forest, the Demon Deacons are doing just that. Wake swept Clemson over the weekend and sit 32-22 ahead of this week's ACC ...  

and they'll make it 14 with a win over Wake Forest tonight at 7:00 p.m. ET. UNC's pitching is enough to make any team seriously doubt their chances. Their one-two punch at the top of the rotation puts the Demon Deacons top two pitchers to shame (and they ...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Jacob Stallings drove in two runs and six North Carolina pitchers combined on a four-hitter in a 6-0 victory over Wake Forest in the first ... 7 2-3 innings for the seventh-seeded Demon Deacons (32-24), who were held to four ...  

Tate Parrish (1-0) and Luis Paula each got one out for the Tar Heels in the fifth, and Chris O’Brien struck out Conor Keniry when Wake Forest loaded the bases with two outs in the ninth. The Demon Deacons (32-23) threatened to take the lead in the third ...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) - Jacob Stallings drove in two runs and six North Carolina pitchers combined on a four-hitter in a 6-0 victory over Wake Forest in the first ... 7 2-3 innings for the seventh-seeded Demon Deacons (32-24), who were held to four singles.  

FSU’s fans complain about having to play basketball schools like Wake Forest on the gridiron (maybe because the Demon Deacons have taken four of the last six from the Seminoles). Now Florida State is on the verge of leaving the ACC because it can make ...  

Al-Farouq Aminu has won a starting job, albeit because of the benching of Trevor Ariza. Xavier Henry is receiving steady minutes despite the return of Eric Gordon. Greivis Vasquez is getting a chance to show what he has against starting point-guards.  

But L.A. had more of a core to offer with Al Thornton (2007), Eric Gordon (2008), and Al-Farouq Aminu (2010) a part of the action. Those three guys are gone now, partly due to a deal that brought elite point guard Chris Paul to the bright lights of SoCal.  

Josh Pastner (Getty Images)Josh Pastner may be the first college basketball coach ever to blame his wife after committing a minor NCAA violation. Late Tuesday night, Pastner used the University of Memphis' men's basketball Twitter account to inadvertently ...  

A trio of State Fair Community College basketball players are going Division I. Antonin Galaya and Alfonzo Houston have signed to play at NCAA Division I North Carolina Central, of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference, next season in Durham, N.C. North ...  

With his trademark fade haircut, a twitter account with more than 50,000 followers and status as the best big man in high school basketball, Nerlens Noel was given the royal treatment whenever he took his unofficial visits to colleges. Now the NCAA wants ...  

Jimmy Kimmel is doing his best Jerry MaGuire impression on national television. Apparently, Kimmel felt it was important for him to do his part on the behalf of UNLV. The comedian and late-night TV host tweeted high school All-American forward Anthony ...  

Joseph Price didn't have to wait long to learn the specific challenges he'll face as Grambling's new men's basketball coach. Walter Harrison, the NCAA Division-I Committee on Academic Performance, notified Grambling President Frank Pogue on Friday of the ...  

Carl Landry added 20 points, including seven in overtime, to go along with 10 rebounds while Al-Farouq Aminu finished with a season-high 17 points for the Hornets, who won for the fifth time in six games. Goran Dragic had 23 points, eight assists and five ...  

Paul made 17 of 19 free throws, while Griffin hit 7 of 9. Eric Gordon scored 17 points and Al-Farouq Aminu added 14 against their former team. They were part of the trade that sent Paul to the Clippers before the season. Gordon was playing against his ...  

The Virginia women's tennis team beat Wake Forest 4-0 in the opening round of the ACC Tournament Thursday in Cary, North Carolina. The 5-seed Cavaliers won the doubles point against the 12-seed Demon Deacons, and earned singles wins from Lindsey ...  

They lost their second-rounder in the trade for Claiborne. A four-year starter for Wake Forest, Wilber led the Demon Deacons in sacks as a junior (6.5) and added 70 tackles (11.5 for loss) and 3.5 sacks as a senior. He played primarily defensive ...  

The Demon Deacons are led by their solid pitching staff ... 243 batting average against. Offensively, Wake Forest has had its share of struggles. As a team, they have a .263 batting average, but that’s not to say that they don’t have some standouts.  

CLEMSON — Clemson will travel to Winston-Salem, N.C., to close the regular season against Wake Forest in a three-game series vital to the Demon Deacons’ postseason hopes. Wake Forest, led by third-year coach Tom Walter, enters the series against ...  

Wake Forest's sweep of Clemson last weekend might just have clinched the Demon Deacons their first spot in an NCAA regional since 2007. The Demon Deacons, who had been on the outside looking in -- both for the eight-team ACC tournament field and ...  

TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) -- The Toledo men's basketball team will be banned from next year's postseason because of past academic problems after the NCAA denied the school's appeal. The ban stems from several years of below-standard scores on the NCAA's ...  

The removal of slippery decals from basketball courts -- something we can all agree on-- isn't the only recommendation the NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Rules Committees (MWBRC?) made to the Playing Rules Oversight Panel (PROP -- now there's ...  

Because the Deacons ... Demon Deacons. Givens led the ACC in receiving yardage (1,330) and was second in catches (83) in earning all-league honors. But Givens declared early for the NFL draft, leaving a hole to be filled this spring in the Wake ...  

In Winston-Salem, N.C., Wake Forest totaled all five of its runs and all six of its hits in the third and fourth innings and held on for a 5-2 victory over Clemson on Thursday night. The Demon Deacons improved to 30-22 overall and 11-17 in the ACC.  

Eric Gordon scored 17 points and Al-Farouq Aminu added 14 against their former team. They were part of the trade that sent Paul to the Clippers before the season. Gordon was playing against his former team for the first time, having missed most ...  

Many Michigan basketball fans see 2013 as the end of the Ed Martin booster scandal. According to the NCAA sanctions handed out a decade earlier, the Michigan athletic department will no longer be banned from associating with and recognizing the ...  

Cooley has now brought in Wake Forest transfer Carson Desrosiers. Desrosiers is a 6-foot-11 center with a nice touch from the perimeter. He started 38 games in two seasons with the Demon Deacons, averaging 4.4 points and 3.7 boards. Desrosiers ...  

The No. 21 Miami Hurricanes wrapped up their weekend set with the visiting Wake Forest Demon Deacons in impressive fashion on Sunday, taking the series finale by a final score of 6-3. Powered by a seventh-inning grand slam from sophomore third ...  

The Clemson Men’s Tennis team had two matches last week, as they closed out the regular season with trips to Winston-Salem to play Wake Forest’s Demon Deacons and Raleigh to play North Carolina State’s Wolfpack. The first match was on the road ...  

Petersen guided Wake Forest to unprecedented heights in leading the Demon Deacons to the Postseason in three of the past four seasons and winning 72 games, which is the best stretch in Wake Forest women's basketball history. The Demon Deacons ...  

Kaman, a ninth-year pro who'll be a free agent this summer, was acquired by New Orleans — along with Eric Gordon, Al-Farouq Aminu and a first-round draft pick — in a deal that sent Chris Paul to the Los Angeles Clippers before the regular season.  

ATLANTA—All three divisions of NCAA men's basketball will see their 2013 national champions crowned during Final Four weekend in Atlanta. The NCAA has announced that for the first time, the Division II and Division III titles will be awarded ...  

GREENSBORO, N.C. - NC State freshman third baseman Trea Turner has been named the Atlantic Coast Conference Baseball Player of the Week, while Wake Forest left-hander ... night's opener helped the Demon Deacons to an eventual 2-1 edge in the ...  

With the 96th overall selection in the 2012 NFL Draft the St. Louis Drams have selected Chris Givens, a wide receiver for the Wake Forest Demon Deacons. Givens is one of the most accomplished wide receivers in Demon Deacon history, as in his ...  

DB David Kamara of Loganville, GA picked up his fourth offer Sunday by way of Wake Forest. The Demon Deacons join Clemson, Mississippi State and Ole Miss. "I talked to coach (Brian) Knorr (Wake Forest co-defensive coordinator) and he told me ...  

Jennifer Hoover, Wake Forest's all-time leading scorer and rebounder, was hired as the Demon Deacons' new women's basketball coach on Wednesday. Hoover, a long-time assistant who went 20-13 at High Point in her first try as a head coach this ...  

RI – Providence College announced on Thursday that sophomore Carson Desrosiers will transfer to the university from Wake Forest. Desrosiers, a 7-foot, 235-pounder out of Windham, New Hampshire, appeared in 62 games for the Demon Deacons over ...  

N.C. to take on Wake Forest in the 2012 edition of the Big Ten/ACC Challenge Presented by DICK’S Sporting Goods The Huskers will face the Demon Deacons on Tuesday, Nov. 27, in a rematch of last year’s contest in Lincoln, as Wake Forest edged ...  

Coach Jim Grobe has challenged Price to improve on his accuracy, especially on underneath passes, and if the quarterback can build off last season's 60-percent completion rate, the Demon Deacons ... his 11 years at Wake Forest, but he hired ...  

BOLIVAR, Mo. (AP) — The NCAA has sanctioned the men's basketball team at Southwest Baptist University after an investigation found hundreds of impermissible text messages sent to prospective athletes. Penalties include one year of probation ...  

Sixteen years ago, Brenda Mock Kirkpatrick left Waynesville for Winston-Salem and a college basketball career at Wake Forest. She was a prominent member of the Demon Deacons for four years, earning honorable mention All-ACC honors as a senior.  

... two-out runs in the fifth inning and blanked Clemson 7-0 in front of 1,461 fans at Wake Forest Baseball Park on Saturday afternoon. The Demon Deacons, who swept the series 3-0, improved to 32-22 overall and 13-17 in the ACC. The Tigers ...  

Paul made 17 of 19 free throws, while Griffin hit 7 of 9. Eric Gordon scored 17 points and Al-Farouq Aminu added 14 against their former team. They were part of the trade that sent Paul to the Clippers before the season. Gordon was playing ...  

Paul made 17 of 19 free throws, while Griffin hit 7 of 9. Eric Gordon scored 17 points and Al-Farouq Aminu added 14 against their former team. They were part of the trade that sent Paul to the Clippers before the season. Gordon was playing ...  

“She expects that.” Morton is the reason Chennault decided to transfer after two years at Wake Forest, where he started all 31 games for the Demon Deacons last year. Morton is not in the best of health, and Chennault wanted to be a little ...  

When a leak appeared in Mississippi Valley State's gym roof and warped the floor, basketball practice became impossible just as the 2010-11 season was getting under way. The displaced Delta Devils — who had made the NCAA men's basketball ...  

That is just what the winningest coach in Demon Deacons history agreed to do ... New Mexico State and TCU in addition to Wake Forest. Petersen worked with Villarreal from 1996-99. Petersen, who has a 313-250 record in 19 seasons, led TCU ...  

Former Wake Forest star Randolph Childress has been named the Demon Deacons' director of player development. Childress had spent nearly a year as an assistant to athletic director Ron Wellman. Childress "exemplifies our vision of winning ...  

Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Small programs, much like the Ohio Bobcats, have found ways to compete in the NCAA tournament. A few years ago, I took a road trip with the Alcorn State basketball team to see how the other half of Division I lives.  

Joseph Price didn’t have to wait long to learn the specific challenges he’ll face as Grambling’s new men’s basketball coach. Walter Harrison, the NCAA Division-I Committee on Academic Performance, notified Grambling President Frank Pogue ...  

The Hornets went flat in the fourth, relying on Lance Thomas, Al-Farouq Aminu and last minute heaves from Vasquez to provide their offense.  It went as well as you’d expect.  Hornets Lose.  Lottery balls safe.  Go root for Sacramento to win.  

The San Francisco 49ers addressed their need at depth on the offensive line by taking OG Joe Looney in the 4th round out of Wake Forest ... has been a four year starter at OLG for the Demon Deacons, including starting as a true freshman ...  

I don’t make those decisions. I just play.'' Williams said he spoke to Ariza three weeks ago to inform him of his plans to start Al-Farouq Aminu ahead of him at small forward and play the team's younger players more to evaluate them better.  

“This is a first in the history of NCAA basketball, and our membership is energized to play all three men’s championships games in the same city during the same weekend as a unique and special way to celebrate 75 years of March Madness ...  

Wake Forest head coach Jim Grobe was the first to appear on the ACC-wide coaches' teleconference Wednesday morning, and the Demon Deacons' skipper went into detail about the strides the team made throughout spring football.  

A upended Wake Forest and UNC-Charlotte in the the 2009-10 WNIT before falling to eventual tournament runner-up Miami in the third round. The victory against the Demon Deacons was A’s first ever against an ACC opponent.  

The Wake Forest Demon Deacons defeated the Navy Midshipmen in the inaugural game, 29-19 on December 20, 2008. Northrop Grumman took over as the primary sponsor for the game after 2009 and renamed it the Military Bowl.  

Pogue did meet with the NCAA last month to discuss plans to improve the program ... Whether or not Price is able to turn things around will ultimately impact far more than just the basketball program at Grambling.  

North Carolina 10, Wake Forest 0 GREENSBORO - Jacob Stallings drove in ... five earned runs and struck out 10 in 7 2-3 innings for the seventh-seeded Demon Deacons (32-24), who were held to four singles.