Update: Official word out of Cancun is that Patrick Patterson (right ankle injury) and Ramon Harris (right knee injury) are day-to-day and will be re-evaluated Wednesday. Their status for the final game of the Cancun Challenge is uncertain.

If you didn’t get a chance to watch it on TV, the UK men’s basketball team easily rolled earlier today, defeating Cleveland State 73-49 in the Cancun Challenge. The Cats will play the winner of Virginia/Stanford Wednesday at 9:30 p.m. ET.

Freshman guard John Wall led the Cats with 15 points, most coming in the second half. UK used an 18-4 run to open the second half to pull away.

Patrick Patterson, who looked dominant early in the game, played just one minute in the second half. Brett Dawson from the Courier-Journal is reporting that Patterson injured his ankle, although head coach John Calipari didn’t elaborate on the severity of the injury.

“He hurt his ankle, so I just left him out,” Calipari said, according to Dawson. “We played so much better without him in there, I just said, ‘Just stay out.'”

Senior Ramon Harris also injured his knee in the first half and had to be helped off the court, but he returned and played in the second half.

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