You don't have to look far to find ACC talent in the NFL.

Every team in the league has at least three players from ACC schools and the conference has a total 249 players in the league as the season begins tonight in Green Bay.

Despite a recent downturn on the field, Miami leads the ACC with NFL players with 44. For the first time since expansion, Maryland takes over the second spot with 28, edging Florida State, which is down to 25 from an ACC-best 46 in 2006, and North Carolina (24).

J.T. Terrell is leaving the Wake Forest basketball team and withdrawing from school after an impaired-driving arrest, the school announced today.

Terrell, who was second on the team in scoring as a freshman, averaging 11.1 points per game, was arrested at 3 a.m. Saturday and charged with driving while impaired, his lawyer said in Wake Forest's official statement.

“Due to circumstances surrounding his arrest, along with other recent indicators, it is obvious to J.T. and his family that J.T. suffers from a serious medical condition which requires immediate attention,” Terrell's attorney, Mike Grace, said in the statement.

The Wake Forest Football Miracle fell apart last season. At one point the Demon Deacons lost nine games in a row, crashing to a 3-9 finish. It was the latest step in Wake’s decline from the 2006 Orange Bowl season, a progression that has seen them go from 11 wins to nine to eight to five to three.

Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe hasn’t lost confidence. In fact, he said Monday he sees a bounce-back season coming.

“At Wake Forest, we’ve proven we can do it,” Grobe said. “The problem is, it’s not a guarantee.”

Wake Forest's quest to improve on a disappointing 2010-11 basketball season ran into an obstacle Monday with the announcement that Melvin Tabb and Ty Walker were suspended indefinitely for unspecified violations of athletic department rules.

Walker, a 7-foot senior center, played in 32 games with nine starts last season. He averaged 3.6 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.5 blocked shots per game.

As a freshman last season, Tabb played in 14 games and averaged 1.6 points and 2.0 rebounds per game.

updated: 5:35 p.m.

DURHAM -- North Carolina kept its hopes for the ACC Baseball Championship alive Saturday afternoon with a 9-0 win over Wake Forest.

The game that had been suspended by rain in the top of the seventh at 1:55 in the morning was completed after a restart at 4:32 p.m.

For the Tar Heels (45-13) to qualify for Sunday’s 1 p.m. title game against Florida State, they would need for Wake Forest to upset Miami this evening
before UNC meets Virginia in the final game of pool play later tonight.

Wake Forest University president Nathan Hatch has responded to the Today show report in which a former Wake Forest student said the school was more concerned about protecting Wake Forest basketball players Gary Clark and Jeff Teague than seeking justice after she made a sexual assault accusation in 2009.

Hatch said he can't comment on the specific case because of federal student privacy laws. But he said Wake Forest believes its educational mission begins with the health and safety of its students.

"I am troubled by the prevalence of sexual misconduct in our society today," Hatch said. "Regarding the described incident, however, I feel strongly that the University’s response, as well as our character, has been misrepresented. """

Wake Forest University is bracing for a national television interview Thursday morning that could cause the issue of violence against women to hit home.

A producer with NBC’s Today Show has advised Wake Forest officials that a segment to air Thursday morning on sexual assault on college campuses will include an interview with a former Wake Forest student involving an incident that occurred several years ago.

University president Nathan Hatch disclosed those details Tuesday in an e-mail to the Wake Forest community.

Duke, North Carolina and N.C. State had widely varying degrees of success on the court in men’s basketball in 2009-10, but all three schools posted stellar performances in the classroom.

All three Triangle ACC men’s basketball teams received public recognition awards for performance in the NCAA’s Academic Progress Rate (APR) calculation for 2009-10. The only other ACC men’s basketball team to receive recognition was Virginia Tech’s.

The NCAA on Tuesday announced the awards, which are given each year to teams that finished in the top 10 percent nationally in their sport in the APR calculation, which measures classroom performance for each team.

GREENSBORO -- It’s hard to call Steve Donahue a magician when he inherited two all-ACC players in Reggie Jackson and Joe Trapani, but Boston College did win its 20th game Thursday with a starting lineup that includes a walk-on who was a women’s practice player a year ago.

What the former Cornell coach has done with Al Skinner’s players this season is nothing less than remarkable. The fifth-seeded Eagles beat Wake Forest by 16 on Sunday and were up that much at halftime Thursday on their way to a 81-67 win over the Demon Deacons.

GREENSBORO -- Wake Forest’s forgettable basketball season came to its expected conclusion today when the Deacons were eliminated from the ACC tournament by an 81-67 loss to Boston College at the Greensboro Coliseum.

The defeat ended the Deacons’ poorest season in ACC play, leaving them with an 8-24 record and just one victory in 17 league games (including the tournament).