Wake Forest sets up neutral-site series with West Virginia
The Wake Forest men’s basketball team will play West Virginia in a neutral-court game in each of the next two seasons.
Wake Forest will play WVU in Charleston, W.V., on Dec. 6 in the upcoming season. The game will be played at West Virginia Convention & Visitors Bureau.
In the 2026-27 season, the programs will play at the Greensboro Coliseum. The date for that game will be announced at a later time.
The Deacons are coming off a 21-11 season, their third in the last four years with more than 20 wins. The upcoming season will be Steve Forbes’ sixth at Wake Forest; the Deacons are 92-65 in his tenure.
Ross Hodge is going to be the fourth coach in four seasons at WVU. Under Darian DeVries last year, the Mountaineers were 19-13; under Josh Eilert on an interim basis the previous season, WVU was 9-23. Eilert was on an interim basis after Bob Huggins resigned in June 2023 following a DUI arrest.
West Virginia leads the all-time series 6-4. All but one of those games was played before 1976, though.
The last time Wake Forest played WVU is a sore spot for Deacons fans, even 20 years later. That was the Mountaineers’ 111-105 victory in the second round of the NCAA tournament in 2005. It was a 7-seed beating a 2-seed and wound up being Chris Paul’s final game as a Deacon.
