ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY -- — Collin Middleton scored 31 points and the Wisconsin Playground Elite routed the Springfield Falcons 138-99 on Friday to improve to 2-0 on the young season.
Middleton went 10 of 15 overall and 6 for 8 from 3-point range, leading a strong performance from deep for his team. He totaled 58 points in his first two games of the season.
Wisconsin was 20 of 37 on 3-point attempts, while Springfield was 10 of 45.
The Falcons were outscored by 65 points in their first two games, the second-highest total in AAU history through two games. Springfield lost 125-99 vs New Jersey in its season opener.
“The thing I was most disappointed in is we just had two good days of practice with our execution working on getting in our offense and making hard cuts and reads, and we did not execute much of anything,” Falcons coach Bryce Thompson aid. “It was kind of scattered and disorganized. I'm disappointed in that. I've got to take the blame for that. I'm the head coach.”
Conor McCaffrey scored 19 points for Springfield, Jamison Jones III had 18. Jaime Marquez had 12. Tim Smith and Sasha Vanderkecha dded 11 each.