Live Updates: Virginia Defeats Clemson 75-65
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Final. Virginia 75, Clemson 65
Virginia breaks the press and then Reece Beekman lobs the ball to Kadin Shedrick for a dunk. Nick Honor drains a three with Kihei Clark's hand in his face to get the Tigers back within six, but Jayden Gardner makes both free throws to make it 73-65 with 30 seconds left. After a Clemson missed three, Kadin Shedrick makes two more free throws to extend the UVA lead to 10. Kadin Shedrick blocks Hunter Tyson's shot at the rim to seal the victory for the Cavaliers.
Virginia 69, Clemson 62 | 1:18 2H
David Collins pushes the ball in transition after a missed UVA shot and draws a foul. Collins makes one of two to make it a seven-point game. Jayden Gardner is fouled by Hunter Tyson on a baseline drive and makes both free throws to extend the UVA lead back to nine. David Collins drives on Franklin and gets a runner to fall off the glass to end a long Clemson field goal drought.
Virginia 67, Clemson 59 | 3:48 2H
David Collins is fouled on a drive to the basket and makes both free throws. Armaan Franklin pump-fakes a three and steps inside the line for a long two-pointer. Kadin Shedrick is fouled by Hunter Tyson on a defensive rebound. With both teams in the bonus, Shedrick takes and makes two free throws. Reece Beekman kicks out to Kihei Clark, who makes his second three of the game from the left wing. Clemson has gone the last 4:20 without a made field goal and UVA is on a 7-0 run.
Virginia 60, Clemson 57 | 5:54 2H
Kihei Clark threads a great pass inside to Jayden Gardner, who is fouled and makes both free throws. Armaan Franklin gets free on a flare screen and rises up for a mid-range jumper from the baseline. UVA extends its lead to three and Brad Brownell calls timeout.
Virginia 56, Clemson 57 | 6:58 2H
PJ Hall flares free to the three-point line after setting a screen and sinks the wide-open three and Clemson regains the lead. Virginia has shot 55% from the field so far, as compared to 53% for Clemson, but the Tigers have made 8 three-pointers compared to just 3 threes for the Cavaliers.
Virginia 56, Clemson 54 | 9:00 2H
Kody Stattmann is left wide open at the three-point line and drains the shot to give UVA a four-point lead. Nick Honor pulls-up and makes a deep two-pointer over Kihei Clark. Naz Bohannon drops off the ball under the basket to David Collins, who finishes the open layup. Jayden Gardner is fouled and gets the layup to fall, but misses the following free throw. David Collins spins to the left and finishes to tie the game for the 14th time tonight. Some sweet interior passing by UVA leads to a Francisco Caffaro one-handed tomahawk dunk.
Virginia 49, Clemson 48 | 11:56 2H
After the game was stuck at 42-42 for a few minutes, Nick Honor kicks out to Al-Amir Dawes for a wide-open three from the right corner and Dawes drains his second three of the game to give the Tigers the lead. Kody Stattmann curls around a screen and gets to the basket for a layup. on Virginia's next possession, Stattmann misses a shot, but Kadin Shedrick gets into the scorebook with a putback dunk. Hunter Tyson makes his first three of the game, but Kihei Clark loses his defender on a screen and drains a three-pointer on the other end.
Virginia 42, Clemson 42 | 15:53 2H
Jayden Gardner is fouled by Nick Honor and makes both free throws to put UVA back on top to start the second half, but Honor draws a foul on the other end and makes one of two free throws to tie the game. Kihei Clark passes to a cutting Reece Beekman, who finishes the reverse layup. Hunter Tyson is fouled by Armaan Franklin and makes both free throws to even the score at 40-40. Armaan Franklin drives left and hits a pull-up jumper from the paint. Hunter Tyson responds by driving to the basket and finishing with his left hand over Gardner.
Halftime. Virginia 36, Clemson 37
Hunter Tyson draws an offensive foul on Jayden Gardner. Tyson then converts two free throws on the other end. Nick Honor gets a difficult runner to fall off the glass on a drive from the right side. Al-Amir Dawes pulls up from behind a screen and makes a three. Clemson is on a 10-0 run and has reclaimed the lead. Taine Murray is fouled going for an offensive rebound and he sinks both free throws to stop the Clemson run and tie the game. Ian Schieffelin is fouled by Caffaro and makes one of two at the line. Clemson takes a one-point lead into the halftime break. PJ Hall leads the Tigers with 10 points and Gardner has 13 points for the Cavaliers. Clemson shot 5/9 from three in the first half and Virginia shot 1/6 from deep.
Virginia 34, Clemson 29 | 3:56
After review, the officials call a flagrant foul on Francisco Caffaro for unnecessary contact. David Collins makes a free throw and then PJ Hall cleans up a deflected pass at the rim with a layup for Clemson. Caffaro, who has played extended minutes in the first half with Shedrick off the floor with foul trouble, draws a foul and makes both free throws. Caffaro continues to give UVA a lift off the bench, doing a full 360 spin move in the post and scoring again with a right hook. PJ Hall makes a three and now has 10 points to lead the Tigers.
Virginia 30, Clemson 23 | 5:39 1H
Gardner converts the free throw to finish the three-point play before checking out of the game with 13 points. Francisco Caffaro backs down his defender and scores in the paint with a right hook. Armaan Franklin springs free for an open three-pointer in the corner and he drains it. Virginia is now on a 10-0 run and Clemson has not scored in nearly four minutes.
Virginia 24, Clemson 23 | 7:47 1H
Hunter Tyson snatches an offensive rebound and hits an easy fadeaway over Taine Murray from close range. Alex Hemenway pump-fakes, then drains a three-pointer and Clemson retakes the lead. Kihei Clark blows by his defender and scores an easy layup. Jayden Gardner spins on Ian Schieffelin and lays it in with a foul. Gardner leads all scorers with 12 points.
Virginia 20, Clemson 18 | 10:44 1H
Hunter Tyson makes a heavily contested jumper from the free throw line out of the timeout. Armaan Franklin is fouled under the basket and makes both free throws, but PJ Hall makes a catch-and-shoot three-pointer from the right wing to give Clemson the lead. Jayden Gardner hits a turnaround fadeaway jumper and Nick Honor responds with a three-pointer. Clemson is flexing its ACC-leading three-point shooting prowess early on. Beekman drives to the basket and finishes the layup, then gets a steal on Clemson's next possession and finishes with a dunk on the other end. Kihei Clark cuts to the basket and gets the ball before dumping it off to a wide open Jayden Gardner for a mid-range jumper. David Collins stops the 6-0 UVA run with a basket on the inside of the Virginia defense. Off of a UVA turnover, Clemson gets out in transition and Hunter Tyson gets an open layup to tie the game at 18-18. Jayden Gardner scores again on another mid-range jumper and the East Carolina transfer has 10 points tonight, which is already more than he had the last time these two teams met less than two weeks ago.
Virginia 8, Clemson 6 | 15:27 1H
David Collins makes an acrobatic up-and-under layup to get the scoring started for Clemson. After Jayden Gardner splashed a mid-range jump shot to get UVA on the board, Al-Amir Dawes cuts backdoor for an easy layup off of a pass from Nick Honor. Armaan Franklin makes a pair of free throws and Reece Beekman makes a layup to give the Cavaliers their first lead of the game. PJ Hall responds with a jumper from the baseline to tie things up. Beekman draws a double-team before dropping off a pass to Jayden Gardner for a layup. Kadin Shedrick picks up two fouls in the first five minutes of the game.
