Filed under: Wake Forest, ACC, Florida State
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Wake Forest quietly filed into its locker room Tuesday night. The door that shut behind the Demon Deacons didn't open for nearly 25 minutes. While an occasional raised voice was heard, the conversation between coach Jeff Bzdelik and his team was a mixture of constructive criticism and honesty.Wake Forest certainly has its challenges this season, but it doesn't change the obvious: the Atlantic Coast Conference is a big boys' league.
"He let us know our mistakes out there," Wake Forest guard C.J. Harris said. "He told us if we would have cut out those (mistakes), we would have had a great chance to win this game."
Instead, the Deacons were far from perfect in their 85-61 defeat to Florida State before a home crowd of 9,729 here at the Tucker Center. Wake Forest's maturation process continued and, unfortunately for the Demon Deacons, it also meant another somber dose of reality.
Wake Forest (8-14 overall, 1-6 ACC) started off well but eventually succumbed to familiar miscues. The Deacons, looking to build on Saturday's victory at Virginia that provided needed positive reinforcement for a young team, instead tumbled into the Atlantic Coast Conference basement with Miami.
"Absolutely, we felt like we took a couple steps back from our last game (against Virginia)," Harris explained in even tones. "It's definitely frustrating anytime you lose, but we felt like we beat ourselves out there because of a lot of careless mistakes on our part."
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