A little more than eight minutes into their second-round NCAA Tournament game on Saturday, the Wake Forest Demon Deacons found themselves in quite a battle with Kentucky.

The Demon Deacons were tied with the top-seeded team in the Eastern Regional at 19. But that’s when leading scorer Al-Farouq Aminu came off the floor after picking up his third foul, and Kentucky took over.

The Wildcats scored 25 of the half’s final 34 points, building a 16-point lead as Wake would go on to lose 90-60, ending its season at 20-11.

The Demon Deacons were run over by a Kentucky team that shot 60 percent from the field, hit 7 3-pointers and held Wake to just 32 percent shooting. Two days after upending Texas in overtime in the first round of the NCAAs, Wake crashed hard in this one.

Aminu finished with 16 points to lead Wake in scoring. C.J. Harris added 11.

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