The 2002–03 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team represented
Wake Forest University as a member of the
Atlantic Coast Conference
The Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) is a collegiate athletic conference located in the eastern United States. Headquartered in Greensboro, North Carolina, the ACC's fifteen member universities compete in the National Collegiate Athletic Associa ...
during the
2002–03 NCAA Division I men's basketball season
The 2002–03 NCAA Division I men's basketball season began on November 10, 2002, progressed through the regular season and conference tournaments, and concluded with the 2003 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament Championship Game on April ...
. Led by head coach
Skip Prosser
George Edward "Skip" Prosser (November 3, 1950 – July 26, 2007) was an American college basketball coach who was head men's basketball coach at Wake Forest University at the time of his death. He was the only coach in NCAA history to take three s ...
, the team played their home games at
Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in
Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The Demon Deacons won the ACC regular season title by two games over Maryland, but would lose in the semifinals of the ACC Tournament. Wake Forest received an at-large bid to the
NCAA tournament as the No. 2 seed in the East region. After a 3-point win over
East Tennessee State
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in the opening round, the Deacons were upset by No. 10 seed
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in the second round to end the season with a record of 25–6 (13–3 ACC).
Roster
Schedule and results
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Rankings
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References
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