Live Updates: Clemson Defeats Virginia 67-50
Live analysis and score updates for the Virginia Cavaliers men's basketball game against the Clemson Tigers on Wednesday night at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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Starting Lineups
Virginia
Kihei Clark
Reece Beekman
Armaan Franklin
Jayden Gardner
Kadin Shedrick
Clemson
Al-Amir Dawes
Nick Honor
David Collins
Hunter Tyson
PJ Hall
First Half
Jayden Gardner backs down David Collins in the paint and knocks down the fadeaway jumper on the first possession of the game. Hunter Tyson responds with a three-pointer on the other end for Clemson. Nick Honor drains a three from the right wing, but Reece Beekman hits a three of his own off a pass from Kihei Clark. Three possessions, three threes for Clemson as Hunter Tyson makes his second triple. Virginia forces a Clemson shot-clock violation and the Hoos get their first stop of the game. Armaan Franklin gets loose for a free throw-line jumper and swishes it. Jayden Gardner drains a catch-and-shoot three from the right corner to give the Cavaliers the lead. Kadin Shedrick pins Nick Honor's layup attempt off the glass.
Clemson 9, Virginia 10 | 14:44 1H
PJ Hall works hard against Kadin Shedrick in the post and gets a contested hook shot to fall. Hunter Tyson pump fakes a three, letting Kadin Shedrick fly past him, before stepping into a wide open mid-range jump shot. Reece Beekman drives left before pulling up for a mid-range jumper and sinking it. Kadin Shedrick picks up his first foul eight minutes in and is replaced by Francisco Caffaro, who quickly picks up his first foul going for an offensive rebound. Ian Schieffelin makes a floater from the baseline for Clemson. Reece Beekman makes a very impressive off-balance three-pointer from well-beyond the three-point line as the shot clock was about to expire and ties the game. Beekman with an early eight points for Virginia.
Clemson 15, Virginia 15 | 10:31 1H
Naz Bohannon drives on Igor Milicic Jr., who just checked into the game, draws a double a team, and passes off to Schieffelin, who makes the floater to give Clemson the lead. Reece Beekman is fouled and makes both free throws to tie the game and give him 10 points in the first half. Al-Amir Dawes makes a three from the left wing off the dribble. Jayden Gardner makes two free throws. Naz Bohannon banks in a tough jumper at the very end of the shot clock and Kihei Clark is whistled for a player control foul on the other end.
Clemson 22, Virginia 19 | 7:35 1H
Naz Bohannon muscles his way inside and gets a layup to go over Milicic Jr. Reece Beekman loses his defender with a crossover above the three-point line and slashes to the basket for an easy layup. Bohannon drives the baseline, spins on Milicic Jr. and makes a jumper as the shot clock expires. PJ Hall spins into a fadeaway jump shot and knocks it down from the right elbow over Shedrick. Caffaro loses PJ Hall, who drains a catch-and-shoot three and Clemson is on a 7-0 run. Hunter Tyson takes a dive after colliding with Jayden Gardner and Gardner is whistled for the offensive foul. The Tigers have opened up their largest lead of the game at 10 points. A very important stretch of 3:40 coming up for UVA here to close the first half.
Clemson 31, Virginia 21 | 3:40 1H
Jayden Gardner picks up his second foul and Francisco Caffaro checks back into the game to replace him. Reece Beekman with some crafty dribbling around a ball-screen to get inside and finishes the layup with his inside hand on the left side of the rim. David Collins gets the in-bounds pass in the paint and floats the ball in over Franklin from close range. Franklin responds by cutting to the basket for a layup.
Clemson 33, Virginia 25 | 1:45 1H
PJ Hall catches Francisco Caffaro flat-footed and drives past him easily for a powerful dunk. Caffaro is called for an offensive foul and the ball goes right back to the Tigers. Reece Beekman intercepts a pass and Virginia regains possession and will take the final shot of the half. After a UVA timeout, Igor Milicic Jr. hands the ball off to Armaan Franklin, who curls to the free throw-line and drains a pull-up jumper just before time expired. Virginia goes into the halftime intermission trailing Clemson by eight points.
Halftime. Clemson 35, Virginia 27
Second Half
Kadin Shedrick turns the ball over on the first possession of the second half, then lets PJ Hall score on him with a right hook. Armaan Franklin responds with a corner three and then Reece Beekman comes up with a steal and dunks it on the other end to cut the deficit to five points. Kihei Clark drains an open three from the right wing and Virginia is on an 8-0 run. UVA has cut the Clemson lead to two points and Brad Brownell is forced to call a timeout.
Clemson 37, Virginia 35 | 17:25 2H
A broken play leads to an open floater by David Collins. Tony Bennett gets about as frustrated with the refs as I've ever seen him after not getting a foul call on a Jayden Gardner shot at the rim with lots of contact.
Clemson 40, Virginia 35 | 15:40 2H
Hunter Tyson backs down Jayden Gardner and makes a fadeaway jumper over him and the Clemson lead is back up to seven. After going on an 8-0 run, the UVA offense has cooled off and the Hoos have made only one shot in their last eight attempts. After back-to-back missed threes from Igor Milicic Jr., Ian Schieffelin makes an elbow jumper to extend the Clemson lead to nine. Kihei Clark is fouled and makes both free throws, but Virginia has gone nearly six minutes without a field goal. Naz Bohannon makes a layup assisted by Schieffelin. Clemson has done very well to weather the storm of Virginia's initial run and replenishes the lead back to nine.
Clemson 46, Virginia 37 | 11:36 2H
Kadin Shedrick is called for a moving screen, his second foul of the game. Al-Amir Dawes gets a heavily contested mid-range shot to fall off the glass. UVA loses control of the ball in the paint and Jayden Gardner dives for it. He is unable to pass it out to a teammate as he sat with the ball in the paint and Tony Bennett calls a timeout.
Clemson 48, Virginia 37 | 10:33 2H
After a turnover by Armaan Franklin, Alex Hemenway drains a corner three to extend the Clemson lead to 14 points. Carson McCorkle and Taine Murray check into the game and it is clear that Tony Bennett knows he needs offense right now, as Virginia has gone nearly eight minutes without a field goal. Kadin Shedrick makes a pair of free throws. Hunter Tyson walks with the ball, but the refs call a foul on Taine Murray and Tyson makes both free throws. UVA has gone 9:39 without a field goal and trails Clemson by 14 points.
Clemson 53, Virginia 39 | 7:54 2H
Al-Amir Dawes steps back into a three and makes it over Kihei Clark. Armaan Franklin makes a jumper from the right elbow to end the 11+ minute field goal drought for Virginia. Franklin makes two free throws to cut it to 11, but Hunter Tyson makes a three on the other end for Clemson.
Clemson 58, Virginia 44 | 4:57 2H
Hunter Tyson drives on Armaan Franklin and elevates over him for the short jumper. The Tigers have made the most out of their size advantage all game long. David Collins drives past Malachi Poindexter for an easy lefty layup and Clemson has its largest lead of the game at 18 points. UVA fans begin to hit the exits at JPJ.
Clemson 63, Virginia 45 | 2:47 2H
If there is one positive to come from tonight's game, it's Reece Beekman, who finished with 20 points on 7/10 shooting, including 3/5 from three-point range. Not much else to be excited about for the Cavaliers, though. Virginia suffers its first loss of ACC play and Clemson snaps an 11-game losing streak to UVA.
Final. Clemson 67, Virginia 50
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