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Wake Forest Needs Improved Defense, and Improved Luck, to Turn This Season Around

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Editor’s Note: Now that I have gotten your attention with the click-bait headline let me get right into this article. Warning, it’s a long one and includes a fair amount of light statistical evaluations.

Introduction

There have been many oddities in the first six games of Wake Forest’s basketball season so far. First of all, Wake Forest is 2-4 on the season despite playing a handful of opponents that did not exactly come in the form of a Death Row of competition. That in itself is extremely problematic.

The next thing that sticks out is the 202nd ranked defensive efficiency in the nation according to KenPom.