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At this point of the season, many fans begin wondering what their team must do in order to secure an NCAA tournament bid. Some Wake Forest partisans are probably lamenting losses at Vanderbilt and Clemson and dreaming that 13-6 could really be 15-4.
Understandable, but unreasonable. As the great comedian Steven Wright said, "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?"
While the Deacs (3-3 in the ACC) have dropped two that they could have won, they've also won two that could have easily fallen into the loss column.
If Virginia Tech's A.D. Vassallo doesn't jack up a 3-pointer with his team up eight points in the final 90 seconds and the shot clock at 29, the Deacs don't come back to beat the Hokies on Dec. 23.
Then there's last night's win over Miami. Wake, among the nation's bottom 10 teams in 3-point accuracy coming into the contest, went 10-for-19 from downtown against the Hurricanes. And the Deacs won by two. You can't just assume that game's an easy, automatic win. On a normal night with 19 attempts from long range, Wake connects five or six times. In a sense, the Deacons got 12 to 15 "additional" points last night.
So this club is precisely where it should be. And that's ahead of schedule.
No matter how mediocre the ACC is, avoiding disaster -- as the Deacs seem to be doing -- is a credible achievement for this team.