Virginia Defeats Louisville 71-61 [Men's Basketball Live Updates]

Follow along with score updates and live analysis for the Virginia Cavaliers (17-12, 11-8 ACC) at Louisville Cardinals (12-17, 6-13 ACC) men's basketball game on Saturday at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky.

Full recap: Beekman and Shedrick Lead Virginia to 71-61 Win at Louisville in Season Finale

Final. Virginia 71, Louisville 61

Louisville scores out of the timeout as Faulkner lobs to Curry for a slam dunk on the inbounds play. The Virginia defense comes up with a couple of stops and then Franklin makes one of two free throws to get the lead back to nine. Beekman forces another Louisville turnover as he takes the ball away. Clark is fouled and makes both free throws. Virginia defeats Louisville and locks up the No. 6 seed in next week's ACC Tournament.

Virginia 69, Louisville 59 | 1:58 2H

Curry makes the free throw to give him 22 points for the day. He came into the game averaging just over six points per contest. Armaan Franklin earns a trip to the free throw line and makes both to push the lead back to ten. Stattmann leaves Williams open at the right wing and he makes the three-pointer. Reece Beekman has the answer and he makes a wide-open three as the shot clock expired.

Virginia 64, Louisville 55 | 4:00 2H

Sydney Curry scores with his left hand plus a foul on Caffaro. Curry completes the three-point play, then Virginia turns it over in the back court and Franklin sends Faulkner to the free throw line. Faulkner misses the front end of the one-and-one but Curry snatches the offensive rebound and dunks it plus a foul on Shedrick. Curry makes the free throw to make it an eight-point game as Louisville goes on a 9-0 run in less than a minute. Armaan Franklin is fouled and stops the bleeding with a pair of free throws. Reece Beekman strips Curry on a drive down the lane and then UVA gets two more points on the other end as Shedrick is fouled and makes both free throws. Jarrod West gets free and knocks down a corner three. Beekman gets a jumper to fall, but Curry responds with a tough bucket plus a foul on Shedrick. The Cardinals aren't gonna hand this one to the Cavaliers with four minutes left in the game.

Virginia 58, Louisville 44 | 6:34 2H

Kody Stattmann is fouled and goes 1/2 from the charity stripe. El Ellis gets to the rim for a layup. Louisville sinks back into the zone again, but the Cardinals leave Armaan Franklin open at the left wing and he makes the catch-and-shoot triple. Kody Stattmann knifes to the basket for a layup. Dre Davis gets to the basket and scores plus a foul on Franklin. Kody Stattmann is left open at the three-point line and he makes it, but Louisville responds with a three-pointer from El Ellis. A three-point contest breaks out in the KFC Yum! Center. Reece Beekman joins the party as he makes a three-pointer, but the Cardinals get a three from Malik Williams. Beekman makes another three but Louisville hits again, this time by Noah Locke. After making just one three in the first half, Virginia has made four in the second half and leads by 14. Both teams have made five threes in the game, with most of them coming in the last couple of minutes.

Virginia 43, Louisville 31 | 11:46 2H

Virginia gets multiple second chances on offensive boards and Kadin Shedrick finally lays it in. Louisville responds with a bucket as Curry puts back his own miss. Both teams not shooting very well in in the last few minutes.

Virginia 41, Louisville 29 | 15:38 2H

Louisville is in a zone defense in the second half and Virginia has yet to figure it out. Beekman slips but manages to get a pass off to Gardner, who knocks down the open mid-range jumper to stop the Louisville run.

Virginia 39, Louisville 29 | 16:15 2H

Samuell Williamson is fouled on a drive through the lane and makes both free throws. Noah Locke makes two more free throws for the Cards, but UVA responds with a three-pointer by Armaan Franklin. Louisville makes a three-pointer of their own as Mason Faulkner drains one from the right wing. Louisville hits another three-pointer, this time by Noah Locke to cut it to 12. Sydney Curry snatches an offensive rebound and lays it in. It's an 8-0 run by Louisville to make it a 10-point game and Tony Bennett calls timeout.

Halftime. Virginia 36, Louisville 17

Kadin Shedrick makes back-to-back dunks, the second one coming in transition after a Jarrod West turnover. Shedrick scores again as he drives on Williams in the post and scores plus a foul on Williams. Shedrick completes the three-point play and has scored the last seven points. Samuell Williamson finally ends the six-minute Louisville scoring drought by making one of two free throws. Virginia ends the half on an 18-1 run. Shedrick has 16 points (ties a career-high) on a perfect 7/7 shooting in the first half.

Virginia 29, Louisville 16 | 2:43 1H

Jayden Gardner picks up his second foul and exits the game. Louisville leaves Kihei Clark open at the three-point line in transition and Clark nails it to put UVA up by 11. Kihei Clark has Jarrod West draped all over him but he manages to knock down a very tough fadeaway jumper. Virginia is on an 11-0 run as part of a massive 17-2 run over the last seven minutes. Louisville has not scored in nearly four minutes and the Cardinals have made one of their last eight field goals.

Virginia 24, Louisville 16 | 4:12 1H

Reece Beekman gets free for a wide open jumper from the elbow to give the Cavaliers their first lead of the game. Beekman's layup rolls off the rim but Stattmann is there for the rebound and is fouled and makes both free free throws. Curry gets good positioning in the paint and makes a hook shot. Armaan Franklin knocks down a jumper from the right elbow. UVA gets out on the break off of a defensive rebound and Beekman moves the ball ahead to Stattmann for a transition layup to put Virginia up by six. Stattmann misses a jumper but Shedrick flies in for a putback dunk. Louisville calls timeout as the Cavaliers have built an eight-point lead.

Virginia 14, Louisville 14 | 7:45 1H

Shedrick makes the free throw to tie the game at 12-12. Shedrick skies for an offensive rebound but then passes it right to Louisville for a turnover. Curry then scores on Shedrick in the post. Shedrick redeems himself immediately as Clark finds him for a dunk. Virginia forces a Louisville shot clock violation to send us to the under-8 timeout with the score knotted at 14.

Virginia 11, Louisville 12 | 11:18 1H

Curry completes the three-point play and the Cardinals lead 8-0. Finally, Reece Beekman curls into the paint and hits a contested floater for Virginia's first basket four and a half minutes into the game. Louisville immediately gets one back on a layup by Malik Williams. Jayden Gardner gets a mid-range jumper to fall. Kody Stattmann drives to the basket and draws a foul on Noah Locke, earning two free throws and he makes one of two. Clark and Shedrick run the pick and roll and Clark throws a great lob to Shedrick for a one-hand dunk. Jayden Gardner spins on Matt Cross on the baseline and scores with a reverse layup. Mason Faulkner gets into the paint and finds Williams for a layup. Shedrick works on Williams in the paint and scores plus a foul on Williams. After Louisville scored the game's first eight points, Virginia goes on an 11-4 run and trails by just one point.

Virginia 0, Louisville 7 | 16:00 1H

A nightmarish start to the game for the Cavaliers. Virginia remains scoreless at the first media timeout after going 0/4 from the floor and turning the ball over twice. Jarrod West knocks down a three-pointer and Mason Faulkner gets a fastbreak layup off of a Kihei Clark turnover. After an Armaan Franklin turnover, Sydney Curry scores a reverse layup plus a foul on Kadin Shedrick.

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