No. 1 Kentucky routs Wake Forest 90-60
March 20, 2010
NEW ORLEANS (AP)—Darius Miller scored a career-high 20 points and top-seededKentucky made easy work of No. 9 Wake Forest during a 90-60 rout Saturday nightin the second round of the NCAA tournament.
It was the second blowout in two games for the Wildcats (34-2), who crushedEast Tennessee State 100-71 in their opener.
Miller scored 16 points in the first half to help the Wildcats build anearly double-digit lead that ballooned beyond 30 in the second half.
DeMarcus Cousins added 19 points for Kentucky, while John Wall scored 14 andEric Bledsoe 13.
Al-Farouq Aminu led Wake Forest (20-11) with 16 points.
Kentucky moves on to play the winner of Sunday’s game between Cornell andWisconsin in the East Regional semifinals next week at Syracuse, N.Y.