Live Updates: Virginia Defeats Syracuse 74-69

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Starting Lineups

Virginia

Kihei Clark

Reece Beekman

Armaan Franklin

Jayden Gardner

Kadin Shedrick

Syracuse

Joe Girard III

Buddy Boeheim

Cole Swider

Jimmy Boeheim

Jesse Edwards

First Half

Jayden Gardner begins the game with back-to-back jumpers, then Armaan Franklin drains a three and Virginia begins the game on a 7-0 run. After an offensive rebound, Jimmy Boeheim sinks a three to get the Orange on the board. Armaan Franklin makes another three-pointer from the right corner, a very good sign for Franklin, who has struggled shooting the three this season. Buddy Boeheim responds with a three-pointer on the other end.

Virginia 10, Syracuse 6 | 15:43 1H

Virginia gets the ball inside to Jayden Gardner, forcing the Syracuse defense to collapse onto him. Gardner feeds it back out to Kihei Clark, who swishes the open three from the top of the arc. Joe Girard responds with a three from the right corner on the next possession. Kadin Shedrick kept the ball alive off of a missed shot and Jayden Gardner gets the putback to fall. Off of a missed UVA shot, Syracuse gets a 5-on-3 opportunity in transition which ends with an open three by Cole Swider. Virginia has been very active on the offensive glass with four offensive rebounds already.

Virginia 15, Syracuse 12 | 11:56 1H

Armaan Franklin drives to the basket for a layup and Taine Murray shoots a quick-release three-pointer from the corner and buries it on the next possession. Virginia puts together an amazing defensive possession and the Cavaliers force a Syracuse shot-clock violation. Kody Stattmann pump-fakes and drives to the basket before shooting an off-balanced floater on target. Stattmann then starts a fast break off of a rebound and attempts a dunk, but he is fouled. UVA is currently outrebounding Syracuse 14-17.

Virginia 23, Syracuse 13 | 7:36 1H

Buddy Boeheim works against Reece Beekman, who plays solid defense, but Boeheim scores on a floater in the paint. Virginia turns it over near half-court and Syracuse scores on the other end on a layup by Symir Torrence. Taine Murray knifes inside and makes a floater. Beekman fouls Buddy Boeheim, who makes both free throws. Boeheim follows that up with a three-pointer on Syracuse's next possession. Virginia had led by as many as 12 but Boeheim's scoring run has the deficit back to just five points.

Virginia 27, Syracuse 22 | 3:35 1H

Reece Beekman feeds Kadin Shedrick for a dunk. After two Syracuse free throws, some nice interior passing by UVA results in another Shedrick dunk off a pass from Beekman in the paint. Four free throws by Buddy Boeheim and then a second-chance layup by Jimmy Boeheim has Syracuse within one point at 31-30. Armaan Franklin stops the Syracuse run with a dunk. Jesse Edwards makes a very difficult fadeaway shot over Kadin Shedrick right before the end of the half to tie the game.

Halftime. Virginia 33, Syracuse 33

Second Half

Syracuse gets three offensive rebounds on the first possession of the second half, which ends with Jimmy Boeheim scoring a layup plus a foul on Kadin Shedrick. Syracuse takes its first lead of the game. Kihei Clark intercepts a pass and gets a wide open layup in transition. Syracuse has 14 offensive rebounds to Virginia's 6. Jayden Gardner gets the ball inside and passes out to Armaan Franklin, who drains the three from the top of the key to regain the lead for UVA. Reece Beekman picks up his third foul of the game less than three minutes into the second half and checks out of the game. Buddy Boeheim makes a heavily contested three-pointer off the dribble from the right wing. Gardner responds with a mid-range jumper from the left elbow, but Buddy Boeheim spins into a fadeaway jumper over Kody Stattmann on the next possession. Kihei Clark pump-fakes and drives to the basket for a layup. With the game speeding up, Tony Bennett calls a timeout.

Virginia 43, Syracuse 40 | 15:53 2H

Armaan Franklin dribbles in from the right corner before rising up and hitting the mid-range jumper. Jimmy Boeheim's layup attempt hits the rim three times before going in just as the shot clock expired. Jayden Gardner picks up his third foul as Cole Swider stumbles into him on a baseline drive.

Virginia 45, Syracuse 42 | 14:03 2H

Jesse Edwards scores a layup out of the timeout and then Jimmy Boeheim slams down an emphatic dunk with a foul on Armaan Franklin. Syracuse goes back in front 47-45. Kadin Shedrick spins and makes a hook shot off the glass. Syracuse turns it over and Reece Beekman taps in Kihei Clark's missed transition layup on the other end. Clark sends in a no-look pass to Kadin Shedrick, who scores through contact with a foul. After a missed three from Kody Stattmann, Buddy Boeheim pulls up from well-behind the arc and drills it to stop a 7-0 UVA run.

Virginia 52, Syracuse 50 | 10:57 2H

Kihei Clark blocks Joe Girard's three-point attempt from behind resulting in a Syracuse shot-clock violation. Buddy Boeheim finds Jimmy Boeheim on the back-door cut for a layup to tie the game. Jayden Gardner finds Kihei Clark for a wide-open three-pointer from the right wing. Jayden Gardner hits a turnaround fadeaway jumper from the free-throw line to put UVA up by five and Jim Boeheim calls timeout.

Virginia 57, Syracuse 52 | 8:18 2H

Some very unselfish basketball by Virginia leads to a Kadin Shedrick dunk off the pass from Jayden Gardner in the paint and UVA is currently on a 7-0 run. Shedrick was surrounded by three defenders with the ball under the basket and the ball rattled around for a moment before Gardner collected it and scored the layup. Cole Swider drains a three to end the 9-0 UVA run. Jayden Gardner picks up his fourth foul with a little less than six minutes remaining. Several Syracuse offensive rebounds in one possession eventually leads to a pair of free throws by Cole Swider. Taine Murray checks into the game and immediately makes a floater from the right baseline, but Swider drives on Murray on the other end and scores. Syracuse switches to a 1-3-1 for a possession and Franklin gets loose in the paint and drains the open mid-range jump shot. A broken play in transition leads to a wide open three-pointer from Buddy Boeheim at the top of the key to make it a three-point game. Kihei Clark responds with a deep pull-up three-pointer of his own. Buddy Boeheim attempts a pull-up three on the next possession and Reece Beekman fouls him. Beekman picks up his fourth foul and Boeheim will shoot three free throws.

Virginia 68, Syracuse 62 | 3:18 2H

Boeheim makes two out of three and it's a 68-64 game. Kihei Clark weaves between multiple defenders and scores a layup, but Jesse Edwards responds with a hook shot on the other end. Gardner makes a mid-range jumper from the free-throw line to put UVA back up by six.

Virginia 72, Syracuse 66 | 1:42 2H

After a Syracuse offensive rebound, the ball comes to a wide open Buddy Boeheim, who drains the three from the right wing to cut it to three points.

Virginia 72, Syracuse 69 | 1:14 2H

Jayden Gardner's jumper late in the shot clock is short and the ball goes back to Syracuse down three with less than a minute left. Cole Swider's game-tying three-point attempt is off the mark. Syracuse fouls Kihei Clark, who makes both free throws to extend the UVA lead to five. Syracuse gets a decent look from three for Joe Girard, but Girard misses it and Kihei Clark comes up with the rebound and is fouled. Clark misses the front end of the one-and-one, but Jimmy Boeheim misses a three on the other end and Virginia beats Syracuse 74-69.

Final. Virginia 74, Syracuse 69

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