UK breaks away from Penn for 86-62 win

After his team lost 86-62 to Kentucky, Penn Coach Jerome Allen had a message for the assembled media. "Kentucky, the University of Pennsylvania and a couple other schools out there are in the top 10 all-time wins in Division I basketball," he said, "whether you know that or not."

That was Allen's way of saying Penn, which is 10th on the list, came to bury college basketball's blue-clad Caesar on Monday night.

So when a reporter later asked guard Tyler Bernardini if Penn's 12-point leads in the first half sent visions of an upset dancing in the Quakers' collective mind, Allen could not resist injecting himself into the answer.

"Yes," he said. "No question."

Bernardini echoed the sentiment. "We felt like on the bus here that we were coming to win," he said. "We weren't coming to play a game (or) entertain the fans."

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