{"id":816,"date":"2011-01-19T15:06:16","date_gmt":"2011-01-19T20:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/capitalsports.us\/?p=816"},"modified":"2011-01-20T16:58:02","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T21:58:02","slug":"point-guard-chennault-returning-for-deacons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/?p=816","title":{"rendered":"Point guard Chennault returning for Deacons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wake Forest is finally catching a break after a miserable start to its basketball season. Freshman point guard \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wakeforestsports.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/mtt\/chennault_tony00.html\">Tony Chennault<\/a> will make his return from a broken left foot on Wednesday at Georgia Tech, the school announced Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Chennault broke the fifth metatarsal in his left foot in the Demon Deacons&#8217; season opener against Stetson on Nov. 12. He is the only true point guard on the Wake roster and the Deacons have struggled the first half of this season.<\/p>\n<p>Chennault missed much of the preseason with a stress reaction in the foot. After the season-opening injury, Chennault had surgery Nov. 15.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;To his credit, here is a young man who is not in optimum shape who hasn&#8217;t even gone through a full week of practice, who hasn&#8217;t even run some of the plays we&#8217;re running, has gotten zero reps with certain things,&#8221; Wake Forest head coach\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/wakeforestsports.cstv.com\/sports\/m-baskbl\/mtt\/bzdelik_jeff00.html\">Jeff Bzdelik<\/a> said in a statement. &#8220;But he is so unselfish and so team-oriented that he knows he can just help us in spot minutes as he continues to get in shape and continues to learn.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He&#8217;s put his pride aside for the well-being of this team. And that is a great testimony to his leadership and what he&#8217;s going to bring to the future of this program in a huge way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Chennault, from Philadelphia, had six points and three assists in 13 minutes in the season opener against Stetson.<\/p>\n<p>Wake Forest is at Georgia Tech Wednesday at 7 p.m. \u00a0The Deacons are 0-3 in ACC play and 7-11 overall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wake Forest is finally catching a break after a miserable start to its basketball season. Freshman point guard \u00a0Tony Chennault will make his return from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=816"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":834,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/816\/revisions\/834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalsportsnc.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}