Don't sleep on Wake Forest. If the Demon Deacons go 2-0 next week, they should officially be on everyone's radar.

Wake's resume reminds me a lot of 23/24 Syracuse (resume metrics worthy of an at-large, but lacking elsewhere) before the Orange ultimately flamed out.

Wake is flying WAY under the radar due to a lack of success against premier competition (1-4 Q1/Q2), but late January to late February provides ample opportunity to fix that.

Their resume metric average (KPI/SOR/WAB) will likely be right around Michigan State's last year (47-ish), which was the highest resume average to get into the field. So the Deacs are very much in the ballpark here.

That Michigan win is doing all the heavy lifting, but it just keeps aging better and better & checks the box of a marquee non-conf win away from Lawrence Joel.

The main rub are the predictive metrics, which at an 80 average are about 30-35 spots higher than the traditional end of the at-large field and will have to come up.