OK, let’s get this one straight: Team A shocks Team B, but while bathing in the all too short afterglow of its historic win is subsequently shocked by nearby Team C three days later.

Undefeated, but still looking for national respect, Team D then upsets Team B at home, but leaves itself wide open for a potential letdown against the aforementioned Team A three days later on the road as it  (you guessed it) bathes in the all too short afterglow of its momentous win.

Break the code and win a free Dick Vitale bobble head -- and two tickets to tonight’s huge ACC showdown at the Heights where No. 2 ranked Wake Forest (Team D for  those of you scoring at home) invades Conte Forum to take on the previously 17th ranked Eagles, or, Team A (9 p.m., Channel 38 ).

Throw the alphabet soup aside and Boston College has to hope the hangover from the Demon Deacons’ impressive 92-89 win over UNC Sunday is as potent as the one they suffered a week ago when Harvard shocked Al Skinner’s groggy club which was also just three days removed from a historic win over UNC.

While the Deacons’ win over the Tar Heels in front a feeding frenzy of 14,741 at  Joel Coliseum  in Winston Salem Sunday was far more predictable than BC’s stunner a week earlier, the opportunity for Tyrese Rice and Co. to catch Dino Gaudio’s club resting on their laurels still exists. Wake Forest (14-0) is off to its best start in nearly three decades (1980-81) and the win snapped a four-game losing skid to the Tar Heels.

Just like the BC-UNC contest, the game will feature a terrific showdown at the point as Rice will go head-to-head with the Deacons’ Jeff Teague, who all of a sudden is looking a lot more like former Wake great Chris Paul than simply a wide-eyed sophomore thrust into the spotlight. Against UNC Teague was simply scintillating as he ran a squadron of UNC defenders ragged on his way to a game-high 34 on 9-for-17 shooting, including 3-for-4 from behind the arc. Throw in a 13-fo-15 performance from the line, six rebounds and four assists, and UNC Roy Williams was left to recycle the same sound bite he had rotted out a week earlier when assessing the impressive play of BC’s Rice.

“That was about as good a performance as I've seen in a long time against a team that I've coached," Williams told the Winston Salem Journal. "I thought he was sensational."

Despite Teague’s explosiveness, BC’s toughest test will come down low where Josh Southern and Joe Trapani will have to find some way to keep 7-foot Wake Forest junior Chas McFarland and friends off the glass and still stay out of foul trouble. Against UNC McFarland outscored (20-17) and out rebounded (11-9) Tyler Hansbrough. Flanking McFarland are a pair of 6-foot-9 bookends in freshman Al-Farouq Aminu (12.7 ppg, 8.7 rpg) and sophomore James Johnson (13.1 ppg, 8.0 rpg). On the season, the Deacons hold a 606-499 advantage on the glass.

"They have great length inside. It's hard to score inside. It's hard to get an open look inside,” said UNC’s Williams Sunday. “That length keeps coming at you from the bench too. I was at Kansas one time and we had Greg Ostertag, Raef Lafrentz and Scott Pollard, three guys that were 6-11, 7-0 and played in the NBA for a while and it was tough for people around the basket. You look down and you have nine assists and 18 turnovers. That's not the way we're supposed to play basketball."

Maybe so, but is seems to be working pretty well for this group of Demon Deacons.

Predictions? I’ll roll the dice and take Team A in an upset of talented Team D which simply can’t seem to shake off one of those patented UNC hangovers.

Bob Albright covers Boston College athletics for WEEI.com.