Three Points from N.C. State's 87-76 win over Wake Forest on Saturday:

1) Brown back on track

State guard Lorenzo Brown had 15 points with eight assists in a season-high 38 minutes on Saturday. He even gave a half-smile as he left the locker room after putting an end to his mini-slump.

"It was a little better," Brown said.

Brown, who is his own biggest critic, was pleased with his turnovers, only two — a low in ACC play for him. He was more aggressive against the Deacs with 11 shots (making six) after only taking five against Boston College on Wednesday, despite an obvious mismatch with Jordan Daniels.

1) Challenge accepted

C.J. Williams spent his first three seasons at N.C. State as a beacon of hard work and hustle on teams otherwise lacking in both categories. As a senior he has emerged as both a leader and reliable scorer, to complement his yeoman effort.

So if anyone was going to be receptive to being called out by the coach, it was Williams, who was challenged by Mark Gottfried to step up his defense after giving up big scoring efforts to Terrell Stoglin and Glen Rice in State's first two ACC games.

"Being a senior, you have to be able to take that," Williams said. "Coach is definitely on me a little more than everybody but I accept that challenge."

With one game left in Jeff Bzdelik's first season as Wake Forest head coach -- barring an upset of Boston College, a team the 8-23 Demon Deacons lost to by 16 points on Sunday -- he described it Monday as the "most challenging year in all my years of coaching."

Wake Forest became the first ACC teams to lose 15 conference games, and Bzdelik said the losses were the least of Wake's problems, starting with center Tony Woods' offseason arrest and dismissal from the team. It wasn't difficult to read between the lines and see major changes coming this summer.

Wake Forest junior center Tony Woods has been suspended indefinitely from the men’s basketball team, coach Jeff Bzdelik said in a statement today, “in order to allow him to devote his time and effort to address the allegations that he is facing.”

According to the Winston-Salem Journal, the incident happened on Labor Day. Woods is alleged to have kicked and pushed down Courtney Lorel Barbour, the mother of their 1-year-old child with whom he lives. Woods, 20, was charged with three misdemeanors:  assault inflicting serious injury, assault on a female and assault inflicting injury in the presence of a child. According to the Journal, police said that Barbour sustained a lumbar spine fracture.

WINSTON-SALEM -- The giant video board at BB&T Field on Wednesday morning welcomed a new basketball coach - Jeff Bzdelik - who was hardly a household name when Wake Forest fired Dino Gaudio last week.

Nonetheless, Bzdelik, 57, knows Wake Forest well, and he said if he could pick one school where he wanted to coach, this would be it.

Wake Forest has targeted Colorado coach Jeff Bzdelik to replace Dino Gaudio.

Wake Forest athletic director Ron Wellman is en route to Colorado to meet with Bzdelik, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. Fox Sports is reporting that a deal is done, but that has been denied by both Wellman and Bzdelik.