2016 – 17 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men 's basketball team represented Wake Forest University during the 2016 – 17 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . The Demon Deacons were led by third-year head coach Danny Manning . The team played their home games at the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem , North Carolina as a member of the Atlantic Coast Conference . They finished the season 19 – 14 , 9 – 9 in ACC play to finish in tenth place . They defeated Boston College in the first round of the ACC Tournament to advance to the second round where they lost to Virginia Tech . They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament as a No. 11 seed in the South region . There they lost in the First Four to Kansas State
ACC Tournament
2017 ACC Men's Basketball Tournament
2016–17 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team