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Wake Forest freshman forward Devin Thomas had minor knee surgery on Tuesday afternoon. Thomas is expected to miss 4-6 weeks but make a full recovery for the 2012-13 season. The arthroscopic procedure cleaned up loose fragments in Thomas' knee. The procedure was performed at the Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center by team physician Dr. David Martin. "This was a routine procedure to remove some loose cartilage fragments from Devin's knee," said Martin. "We wanted to be proactive with this to get him ready for the season."

"The guy that could really and truly do it is Devin Bolling,'' Grobe said. "I hate to say that, because he's going to have to really get intense and start blowing some snot bubbles to be the guy, but if he did he's got all the talent we need to be that guy. The talent's all there. "And he's an older guy, and that would keep us looking at the younger guys to give us some reps, but not have to be main guys.

In what some are calling one of the biggest upsets in international basketball and the greatest win in the history of African basketball, Nigeria followed up their upset of Lithuania to eliminate Greece, 80-79, in the men's basketball Olympic qualifying quarterfinals Friday in Caracas, Venezuela. A pair of Nigerians with ties to the New Orleans Hornets helped make it happen. Ike Diogu, a former Hornets who never played a game for New Orleans due to injury, led Nigeria with 17 points and 12 rebounds. Fellow forward Al-Farouq Aminu, heading into his second season as a Hornet, battled foul trouble but added 13 points to help his nation rally for the victory.

Wake Forest's opponents hate Jim Grobe for beating them with less. Florida State fans hate Jimbo Fisher for losing to Wake Forest with more.

Instead they’ll finish ninth if N.C. State wins at Virginia Tech tomorrow and 10th if the Hokies prevail. They’ve taken a step, but it’s a halting step by a short baby.

"There are no rules here. He's going to have an opportunity," coach Mark Jackson said. "He can get anywhere he wants on the floor, and he can pass the ball. I think he attacks and is very aggressive defensively. "If he comes here and does that, he'll have a chance. It'll be interesting to see how it plays out."

"To me that was a no-brainer,’’ Grobe said. "He was out of bounds and came back in and caught the ball. "But the problem that we’ve got is we have a term `indisputatable’ for replays. Well ask any lawyer, and everything’s disputable. So what I’d like to see them do is change the rule book and say `If you used a litlte common sense, do you think this should be changed?’ Put it that way and it would be a little more obvious. But when you say `indisputable,’ anything can be disputed. "They reviewed it and said it was too close to call, that you couldn’t say he was out and came back in. Of course the problem with that is, it doesn’t mean that on third down they wouldn’t have scored. That was second down. They could have scored on third down. But that would have taken seven more seconds off the clock and now (they’re) not kicking a field goal. So it was an important time, and that’s not why we lost the game or whatever.

The Atlantic Coast Conference has announced that the Notre Dame at Wake Forest football game on Saturday, November 5 will kickoff at 8 p.m. EDT. The game will be televised nationally on ABC with a reverse mirror on ESPN2. In those areas of the country in which the game is not available on ABC, it will be available on ESPN2.