Arena #125: Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum - Wake Forest vs. Davidson

Night three of our North Carolina trip took us over to Winston-Salem for an intra-state matchup between the Wake Forest Demon Deacons and the Davidson Wildcats from Arena #125, the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum.  Now normally I would have expected this to be a pretty hot ticket given the expectations for Davidson in 2018-19, but Wake has been pretty subpar the last couple years and with the students still on break, the arena wasn’t too packed or boisterous for this one.  Davidson definitely didn’t bring their best game to this contest, though being without one of their best players in Kellan Grady didn’t help.  Wake controlled the tempo and the scoreboard throughout the game and pulled off a 4 point win in what had to be considered an upset of one of the favorites to win the Atlantic 10 for the 2018-19 season.

Holy bollards outside the Lawrence Joel Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Winston-Salem, NC

Not the most exciting court design anymore (definitely miss having the Deacon at mid-court)

Opening tip between the Demon Deacons and the Wildcats

Davidson head coach Bob McKillop having a conversation with Teddy Valentine on the sideline