Starting Lineups + Live Score Updates for West Virginia vs. Kansas

West Virginia and Kansas are getting set to duke it out for the Big 12 Conference tournament championship game in Surprise, AZ.

If you are unable to watch or listen to the game, we've got you covered with this live game file. I will be providing real-time updates, which will include all scoring plays, pitching changes, and key moments throughout tonight's ballgame.

The lineup cards have been turned in, which you can check out below. Updates will be posted above the lineups.

Live game updates

TOP 1 (WVU)

Gavin Kelly was hit by a pitch in the inning, and Paul Shoenfeld singled to right, but nothing going for the Mountaineers as Sean Smith hit into an inning-ending double play.

BOTTOM 1 (KU)

Tyson Owens hits a solo home run to right-center field on a cutter left up in the zone and out over the heart of the plate. Korn bounces back with a pair of quick groundouts to end the inning.

Kansas leads 1-0

TOP 2 (WVU)

The Mountaineers force Nayral to throw nearly 30 pitches in the inning, but fail to plate a run. Armani Guzman (reached on a strikeout passed ball) gets stranded at third. The second straight inning, WVU has left a runner 90 feet from home.

BOTTOM 2 (KU)

Quick inning of work from Korn, thanks to a special play in left field by Matthew Graveline. He made an incredible diving catch near the foul line and threw a strike all the way to first base, doubling up the runner for your conventional inning-ending 7-3 double play.

TOP 3 (WVU)

Welp, the theme continues of inning-ending double plays. WVU looked like they were about to make Nayral really labor again, but Shoenfeld scorched a liner right to the first baseman, and Gavin Kelly was unable to get back. No runs for the Mountaineers yet, but they are making Nayral work and are barreling the ball up.

BOTTOM 3 (KU)

Korn gives up a basen hit, but keeps the top of the order silent. He's been extremely efficient through the first three innings, so there's a chance he could go at least two more frames.

TOP 4 (WVU)

Easiest inning of work for Nayral. WVU goes three up, three down with Smith flying out to shallow left, Graveline bouncing out to short, and Guzman flying out to center. The Mountaineers have just one hit so far on the night.

BOTTOM 4 (KU)

No double play to end this frame, but WVU tried twice to. Ineich nearly had one on a 6-3 play, hard hit at Korn's feet, and then Tyrus Hall made an incredible stab on the hot corner. Korn flips up another zero.

TOP 5 (WVU)

With one out in the inning and bases loaded, Kansas is making a pitching change. Toby Scheidt will face Gavin Kelly in what is a massive at-bat here for the Mountaineers.

Oh boy. Huge missed opportunity for WVU. Kelly flies out to shallow right, and the runner from third is gunned out at the plate by a mile. Very questionable send there, if I'm being honest. You can't make the final out at the plate, especially when you have applied pressure.

BOTTOM 5 (KU)

Korn continues to hum. Issued a two-out walk to the nine-hole hitter, but induced a flyball out from LeBlanc. He's at 60 pitches through five. Remember, he threw 33 on Thursday, so he probably doesn't have much left.

TOP 6 (WVU)

For the second straight inning, the Mountaineers leave the bases loaded and can't scratch across a run. WVU nearly had a disaster on the bases following a flyout to right field. They escaped it, but Wills bounced out to short, keeping the score at 1-0.

BOTTOM 6 (KU)

Another sequence that doesn't go West Virginia's way. Ian Korn walked a batter and then hit one in the head, both with two outs. Jordan Bach then singled through the right side, scoring a run, knocking Korn out of the game. Reese Bassinger cleaned things up. It's 2-0 Kansas.

TOP 7 (WVU)

Still nothing going for WVU. They have six outs to play with.

BOTTOM 7 (KU)

Back-to-back-to-back homers for the Jayhawks, and they've blown this thing open. It's 8-0.

TOP 8 (WVU)

Still zilch for the Mountaineers.

BOTTOM 8 (KU)

Jayhawks tack on another run on a fielding error by Guzman.

TOP 9 (WVU)

The Mountaineers get shut out. Final score: Kansas 9, West Virginia 0.

Tonight's game will start on ESPN News. It will switch over to ESPN2 once the game currently airing ends.

4:07 p.m.: West Virginia names Ian Korn tonight's starting pitcher.

West Virginia's starting lineup

1. SS Matt Ineich
2. C Gavin Kelly
3. CF Paul Schoenfeld
4. DH Sean Smith
5. LF Matthe Graveline
6. 1B Armani Guzman
7. 2B Brodie Kresser
8. RF Brock Wills
9. 3B Tyrus Hall

SP Ian Korn

More on Smith: The Mountaineers' DH has been a tough out at the plate, maybe more so than anyone in this Big 12 tournament. In the two games against Kansas State and Arizona State, he combined to go 6/8 with a double and an RBI. In that series finale against Kansas, Smith went 1/2 against tonight's starting pitcher for KU, Mathis Nayral, with the one hit being a home run.

Kansas' starting lineup

1. SS Tyson LeBlanc
2. CF Tyson Owens
3. 2B Cade Baldridge
4. 1B Josh Dykhoff
5. C Agusto Mungarrieta
6. RF Jordan Bach
7. 3B Dylan Schlotterback
8. DH Dariel Osoria
9. LF Savion Flowers

SP: Mathis Nayral

More on LeBlanc: In his at-bats against Korn, LeBlanc laid down a sacrifice bunt and then struck out swinging.

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