2003–04 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team

2003–04 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball
2003–04 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball
NCAA tournament, Sweet Sixteen
Conference	Atlantic Coast Conference
Ranking
Coaches	No. 15
AP	No. 17
Record	21–10 (9–7 ACC)
Head coach	Skip Prosser (3rd season);
Assistant coach	Dino Gaudio (3rd season)
MVP	Taron Downey
Captain	Taron Downey; Jamaal Levy; Justin Gray
Home arena	LJVM Coliseum
	Seasons ← 2002–03 2004–05 →

2003–04 ACC men's basketball standings
v t e	Conf				Overall
Team	W		L	PCT	W		L	PCT
No. 6 Duke	13	–	3	.813	31	–	6	.838
No. 15 NC State	11	–	5	.688	21	–	10	.677
No. 17 Wake Forest	9	–	7	.563	21	–	10	.677
No. 14 Georgia Tech	9	–	7	.563	28	–	10	.737
No. 18 North Carolina	8	–	8	.500	19	–	11	.633
No. 19 Maryland†	7	–	9	.438	20	–	12	.625
Florida State	6	–	10	.375	19	–	14	.576
Virginia	6	–	10	.375	18	–	13	.581
Clemson	3	–	13	.188	10	–	18	.357

† 2004 ACC tournament winner Rankings from AP Poll

The 2003–04 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team represented Wake Forest University during the 2003–04 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.

Roster[edit]

Players

Coaches

Pos.	#	Name	Height	Weight	Year	Previous school	Hometown
PG	3	Chris Paul	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)	175 lb (79 kg)	Fr	West Forsyth	Lewisville, North Carolina

Head coach

Skip Prosser

Assistant coach(es)

Legend

(C) Team captain
(S) Suspended
(I) Ineligible
(W) Walk-on

Injured
Current redshirt

Roster
Last update: August 22, 2020

Schedule and results[edit]

Date time, TV	Rank^#	Opponent^#	Result	Record	Site city, state
Regular season
November 20*	No. 20	vs. Memphis Coaches vs. Cancer Classic	W 85–76	1–0	Madison Square Garden New York, NY
November 22*	No. 18	Elon	W 97–55	2–0	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
November 29*	No. 18	at Yale	W 86–61	3–0	Bridgeport, CT
December 2*	No. 18	Indiana ACC–Big Ten Challenge	W 100–67	4–0	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
December 6*	No. 18	Richmond	W 81–66	5–0	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
December 15*	No. 14	at SMU	W 78–66	6–0	Dallas, TX
December 20	No. 14	at No. 4 North Carolina	W 119–114 ^3OT	7–0 (1–0)	Dean Smith Center Chapel Hill, NC
December 30*	No. 6	North Carolina A&T	W 91–67	8–0	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
January 3*	No. 6	New Mexico	W 70–61	9–0	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
January 6*	No. 5	Brown	W 86–47	10–0	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
January 10	No. 5	Clemson	W 78–63	11–0 (2–0)	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
January 13*	No. 4	at No. 18 Texas	L 81–94	11–1	Austin, TX
January 17	No. 4	at No. 2 Duke	L 72–84	11–2 (2–1)	Cameron Indoor Stadium Durham, NC
January 20	No. 10	No. 11 Georgia Tech	L 66–73	11–3 (2–2)	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
January 25	No. 10	at Florida State	L 70–75	11–4 (2–3)	Tallahassee, FL
January 29	No. 19	Maryland	W 93–85	12–4 (3–3)	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
January 31	No. 19	Virginia	W 91–78	13–4 (4–3)	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
February 4		at NC State	L 68–73	13–5 (4–4)	Raleigh, NC
February 7 CBS	No. 16	No. 17 North Carolina	L 73–79	13–6 (4–5)	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
February 12	No. 20	at Clemson	W 82–67	14–6 (5–5)	Littlejohn Coliseum Clemson, SC
February 15*	No. 20	No. 13 Cincinnati	W 91–85	15–6	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
February 18	No. 15	No. 3 Duke	W 90–84	16–6 (6–5)	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
February 22	No. 15	at No. 18 Georgia Tech	W 80–76	17–6 (7–5)	Atlanta, GA
February 25	No. 11	Florida State	W 90–87 ^OT	18–6 (8–5)	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
February 28	No. 11	at Maryland	W 91–83	19–6 (9–5)	College Park, MD
March 2	No. 11	at Virginia	L 82–84	19–7 (9–6)	Charlottesville, VA
March 6	No. 11	No. 16 NC State	L 70–81	19–8 (9–7)	LJVM Coliseum Winston-Salem, NC
ACC tournament
March 12*	No. 15	vs. Maryland ACC tournament	L 86–87	19–9	Greensboro, NC
NCAA tournament
March 18* CBS	(4) No. 17	vs. (13) VCU First Round	W 79–78^[1]	20–9	Raleigh, NC
March 20* CBS	(4) No. 17	vs. (12) Manhattan Second Round	W 84–80	21–9	Raleigh, NC
March 25* 10:00 p.m., CBS	(4) No. 17	vs. (1) No. 5 St. Joseph's Sweet Sixteen	L 80–84	21–10	East Rutherford, NJ
*Non-conference game. ^#Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses. All times are in Eastern Standard Time.

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References[edit]

^ "Paul's late FTs lift Wake past VCU". ESPN. March 18, 2004. Retrieved July 27, 2023.
^ 2014-15 Wake Forest Demon Deacon's men's basketball media guide Archived 2015-05-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2015-May-22.

[1] "Paul's late FTs lift Wake past VCU". ESPN. March 18, 2004. Retrieved July 27, 2023.

[2] 2014-15 Wake Forest Demon Deacon's men's basketball media guide Archived 2015-05-23 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2015-May-22.

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v t e Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball
Venues	Gore Gymnasium (1935–1956) Winston-Salem War Memorial Coliseum (1956–1989) Greensboro Coliseum (alternate; 1959–1989) Reynolds Gymnasium (alternate; 1956–1989) LJVM Coliseum (1989–present)
Rivalries	North Carolina NC State
Culture & lore	Demon Deacon "O Here's to Wake Forest" Spirit of the Old Gold and Black Tobacco Road Dixie Classic/Big Four
People	Head coaches NBA players Statistical leaders
Seasons	List of seasons 1905–06 1906–07 1907–08 1908–09 1909–10 1910–11 1911–12 1912–13 1913–14 1914–15 1915–16 1916–17 1917–18 1918–19 1919–20 1920–21 1921–22 1922–23 1923–24 1924–25 1925–26 1926–27 1927–28 1928–29 1929–30 1930–31 1931–32 1932–33 1933–34 1934–35 1935–36 1936–37 1937–38 1938–39 1939–40 1940–41 1941–42 1942–43 1943–44 1944–45 1945–46 1946–47 1947–48 1948–49 1949–50 1950–51 1951–52 1952–53 1953–54 1954–55 1955–56 1956–57 1957–58 1958–59 1959–60 1960–61 1961–62 1962–63 1963–64 1964–65 1965–66 1966–67 1967–68 1968–69 1969–70 1970–71 1971–72 1972–73 1973–74 1974–75 1975–76 1976–77 1977–78 1978–79 1979–80 1980–81 1981–82 1982–83 1983–84 1984–85 1985–86 1986–87 1987–88 1988–89 1989–90 1990–91 1991–92 1992–93 1993–94 1994–95 1995–96 1996–97 1997–98 1998–99 1999–2000 2000–01 2001–02 2002–03 2003–04 2004–05 2005–06 2006–07 2007–08 2008–09 2009–10 2010–11 2011–12 2012–13 2013–14 2014–15 2015–16 2016–17 2017–18 2018–19 2019–20 2020–21 2021–22 2022–23 2023–24
NCAA Final Four appearances in italics