Antanas Kavaliauskas

Biography

Antanas Kavaliauskas joined the Wake Forest basketball staff in June 2020 as Director of Player Development after an extensive professional career in Europe, being elevated to assistant coach in the summer of 2023. Over the last five years, Kavaliauskas has been instrumental in helping Wake Forest: Earn 74 home victories, tied for seventh-most nationally and second-most in the ACC 104 overall victories, fifth-most in the ACC during that span 54 ACC regular season victories, fifth-most in the ACC during that span 13 ACC regular season victories in both 2021-22 and 2024-25, tied for the most in a single season in school history During the 2025-26 season, Kavaliauskas helped Wake Forest earn 18 victories include two in postseason play as Wake Forest earned a No. 1 seed in the NIT. Individually, Juke Harris was named ACC Most Improved Player, All-ACC second-team and NABC All-South Atlantic District first-team while Myles Colvin earned ACC Player of the Week and Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week honors. In 2024-25, Kavaliauskas helped lead the Demon Deacons to 21 victories overall and the program’s first-ever double bye in the ACC Tournament. With 13 ACC victories – tied for the most in a single season in school history and the second time in four seasons the Deacs have hit that mark – Wake Forest earned its highest regular season finish since the 2008-09 campaign. Wake Forest matched the school record for road ACC victories with six, as the Demon Deacons defeated Syracu