Wake Forest sure looks like a down-trodden program. Officially the fourth of ESPN’s Joe Lunardi’s Last Four In, and still having to face Duke at Cameron, this was a must-win for the Demon Deacons. And yet it was the quietest ACC crowd I’ve heard in quite a while.

Isaac McKneely scored 27 points and Virginia led most of the way in a surprising 83-75 Atlantic Coast Conference victory against Wake Forest on Wednesday night at Winston-Salem, N.C. Dai

The Demon Deacons have gone 11-2 at home. Wake Forest is eighth in the ACC with 32.2 points per game in the paint led by Tre'Von Spillers averaging 7.4. The Cavaliers have gone 6-10 against ACC opponents. Virginia is 2-3 in games decided by 3 points or fewer.

But that was the situation Wednesday, rolling into Winston-Salem, N.C., with a chance to throw a wrench in Wake Forest’s NCAA Tournament hopes, and junior guard Isaac McKneely was more than up to the task.

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Wake Forest had avoided the pitfalls of what might be considered "bad losses" for most of the season. After absorbing a couple of them recently, the Demon Deacons can ill afford another when Virginia visits for an Atlantic Coast Conference game Wednesday night in Winston-Salem,

Facing a North Carolina school for the third game in a row, Virginia will visit Wake Forest on Wednesday night in Winston-Salem, looking to snap a two-game losi