By JOEDY McCREARY AP Sports Writer
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. (AP) - Anthony Gill scored 11 points and No. 2 Virginia routed Wake Forest 70-34 on Wednesday night for its seventh straight win.
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Darion Atkins added 10 points to help the short-handed Cavaliers (26-1, 14-1 Atlantic Coast Conference) score their most points since they beat Miami 89-80 in double overtime on Jan. 3.
The ACC leaders shot 50 percent, led by 38 and held Wake Forest to 15 points in the first half and a season-worst 22 percent shooting.
Dinos Mitoglou had 10 points for the Demon Deacons (12-16, 4-11), who took their most lopsided loss of the year.
Virginia played without two injured starters - Justin Anderson and London Perrantes - but had no trouble with rebuilding Wake Forest, which became the fifth Virginia opponent in six games to fail to reach 50 points.
Anderson has been out since breaking his finger Feb. 7, they played for the first time without Perrantes, who has a concussion and a broken nose and was replaced in the starting lineup by freshman Marial Shayok.
Even without those two, they had a much easier time against the Demon Deacons than they did 1½ weeks ago - when they blew a 13-point second-half lead and needed to force a turnover in the closing seconds to preserve a 61-60 victory.
Virginia took control of this one with a 23-6 run midway through the first half in which seven different players contributed. Evan Nolte closed the run with a 3 from the corner that made it 31-13 with 4½ minutes left.
Shayok's tip-in with about 3 seconds before the break put the Cavaliers up 20 for the first time at 36-15.
TIP-INS
Virginia: The Cavaliers snapped a 10-game losing streak at Joel Coliseum. They had lost 14 of 15 in this arena since 1994-95.
Wake Forest: Mike Tobey's free throw with 11:02 left put Virginia up 57-21 and gave the Demon Deacons their largest deficit of the season, surpassing the 35-point lead Arkansas took against them on Nov. 19.
UP NEXT
Virginia: Hosts Virginia Tech on Saturday night.
Wake Forest: Hosts Pittsburgh on Sunday night.