The 2001 season will likely be remembered the same way. The Deacons really never recovered from Brendan Haywood s fortuitous put-back in the final second of the game in Chapel Hill. A last second Chris Duhon floater in Winston-Salem dashed any hope the Deacons had for a late season rally. Tough bounces happen. The four teams in Minneapolis this weekend all had tough, last-second losses this season.
Good teams recover and adjust.
The Deacons were bounced hard. At the end of the day, the harsh reality is that they never recovered. Brown is a 1999 graduate of Wake Forest. He is currently a 2nd year law student at Duke University. All rights reserved.