Canes Hoops: Miami puts away Wake Forest 76-65

Tony CapobiancoMiami was hoping to come away with their first conference victory of the season after dropping their first 3 ACC contests, and today’s matchup with Wake Forest appeared as good a time as any to grab a W. The Demon Deacons brought a 7-7 (0-2 conference) record into the Watsco Center, and with it one of the shorter rotations in the conference (other than the Canes).

After taking leads into the second half of each of their first 3 conference games, Miami actually found themselves trailing at halftime Saturday, with Wake Forest using offensive rebounds and Miami turnovers to go into the break ahead 33-32. Wake’s top-2 scorers Brandon Childress and Jaylen Hoard had an off day,…