The Wake Forest Men’s Basketball team has officially released the non-conference portion of the schedule for the upcoming season.
Non-Con action is set ✅
— Wake Forest Men's Basketball (@WakeMBB) July 17, 2025
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Here’s a quick rundown of the teams on the schedule and how they performed last season:
American University Eagles (Home)
- Record: 22-14
- KenPom: 248
- NET: 226
Morehead State Eagles (Home)
- Record: 15-17
- KenPom: 328
- NET: 317
Michigan (Neutral)
- Record: 27-10
- KenPom: 21
- NET: 11
UMass Lowell River Hawks (Home)
- Record: 17-15
- KenPom: 244
- NET: 242
Texas Tech Red Raiders (Neutral)
- Record: 28-9
- KenPom: 9
- NET: 7
Purdue Boilermakers (Neutral) *Potential Baha Mar Opponent
- Record: 24-12
- KenPom: 15
- NET: 19
Memphis Tigers (Neutral) *Potential Baha Mar Opponent
- Record: 29-6
- KenPom: 54
- NET: 49
Campbell Camels (Home)
- Record: 15-17
- KenPom: 220
- NET: 222
Northeastern Huskies (Home)
- Record: 17-15
- KenPom: 209
- NET: 207
Oklahoma Sooners (Home)
- Record: 20-14
- KenPom: 40
- NET: 43
West Virginia Mountaineers (Neutral)
- Record: 19-13
- KenPom: 53
- NET: 51
Queens Royals (Home)
- Record: 20-15
- KenPom: 212
- NET: 199
Longwood Lancers (Home)
- Record: 18-14
- KenPom: 210
- NET: 210
Vanderbilt Commodores (Home)
- Record: 20-13
- KenPom: 48
- NET: 48
Combined
- Record: 291-184 (.613)
- Average KenPom: 137
- Average NET: 132
Obviously, what happened last year is not guaranteed to happen again this season, but it at least looks like the Deacs tried to make their non-conference schedule a little bit tougher this season than they have
the past few years. Wake is only playing 1 team that was ranked 300+ in KenPom (Morehead) and has 4—potentially 5— teams on the schedule that were in the top 50 last season (Michigan, Texas Tech, Purdue, Oklahoma, Vanderbilt). That should hopefully put an end to the yearly tanking of the metrics due to underperforming against really bad teams.
Go Deacs!
