1961–62 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team

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Coaches No. 7 1961–62 record 22–9 ( ACC)		AP No. Not ranked Head coach Bones McKinney
Conference Atlantic Coast Conference Home arena Winston-Salem Memorial Coliseum

The 1961–62 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team represented Wake Forest University.

NCAA basketball tournament

East

Wake Forest 92, Yale 82

Wake Forest 96, St. Joseph’s, Pennsylvania 85

Wake Forest 79, Villanova 69

Final Four

Ohio State 84, Wake Forest 68

Third Place Game

Wake Forest 82, UCLA 80

Billy Packer, who would become famous as a college basketball broadcaster.

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