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1980–81 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team

American college basketball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ23020577 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1980–81 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team represented Wake Forest University during the 1980–81 NCAA men's basketball season.

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The public source identifies “1980–81 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team” as american college basketball season. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Wake, Forest and Demon.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Wake, Forest and Demon providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “1980–81 Wake Forest Demon Deacons men's basketball team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.