Virginia Cavaliers 67, Boston College 55 [Men's Basketball Live Updates]
Follow along with score updates and live analysis for the Virginia Cavaliers (12-9, 6-5 ACC) vs. Boston College Eagles (9-11, 4-6 ACC) men's basketball game on Tuesday night at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Click here for a full recap of the game: Virginia Downs Boston College 67-55 Behind Balanced Scoring Effort
Final. Boston College 55, Virginia 67
Kihei Clark breaks the Boston College press and is fouled, making both free throws. Kadin Shedrick rejects Galloway's layup attempt off the backboard and then Clark is fouled again. Clark makes both free throws once again. Virginia defeats Boston College 67-55.
Boston College 55, Virginia 63 | 38.8 remaining
After review, the officials upgrade Zackery's foul to a flagrant and Shedrick goes one of two at the free throw line. Kihei Clark turns the ball over and then Reece Beekman unwisely fouls Brevin Galloway in the back court. Galloway makes both to cut the lead to eight. Jayden Gardner grabs multiple offensive rebounds and ultimately scores the bucket plus a foul on Karnik, who exits the game with his fifth foul. Quite a punctuating play there by Gardner, who leads Virginia with 17 points tonight.
Ashton-Langford quickly nails a three-pointer to get it back to an eight-point game. BC fouls Kihei Clark, who makes both free throws. Jayden Gardner fouls Ashton-Langford, who makes both foul shots.
Boston College 48, Virginia 57 | 1:55 2H
Ashton-Langford pushes the ball quickly after a defensive rebound and gets inside for a layup over Reece Beekman. Virginia tries an alley-oop, but Beekman's lob is too high for Jayden Gardner. DeMarr Langford is fouled and makes both ends of the one-and-one to bring Boston College back to within single digits with just over two minutes remaining. Kihei Clark is whistled for an offensive foul, his fourth personal, and the ball goes back to Boston College. Zackery throws an elbow on a dribble drive that catches Shedrick in the jaw. Zackery is called for the offensive foul.
Boston College 44, Virginia 57 | 3:57 2H
Reece Beekman forces a Boston College turnover and Kihei Clark takes it the other way for a fast-break layup. The Eagles nearly turn it over again, but the ball finds it way to Jaeden Zackery for a three-pointer from the left wing. The Hoos respond with a three of their own, as Armaan Franklin knocks down his second three of the game. The Cavaliers get their ninth steal of the game (Boston College's 13th turnover) and Kihei Clark is fouled on the other end, making both free throws. Virginia is 16/18 from the free throw line. DeMarr Langford drives inside and steps back for a mid-range jumper. Karnik picks up his fourth foul as he hits Shedrick on his way to the rack. Shedrick knocks down both free throws. Langford spins into another fadeaway jumper and hits it.
Boston College 37, Virginia 48 | 8:00 2H
Karnik feeds a high-low pass down to Post, who scores the layup to bring Boston College back to within nine. Reece Beekman drives through the entire BC defense before dumping off to Gardner for an easy layup to end a scoring drought of nearly four minutes for Virginia. Kody Stattmann comes up with his third steal of the game.
Boston College 35, Virginia 46 | 10:30 2H
Karnik is single-handedly keeping the Eagles in the game. He spins on Caffaro and scores again for BC. Virginia is forced to burn a timeout as the Eagles pressed up on the ensuing inbounds and UVA could not get it in. Caffaro is fouled by Karnik (3rd foul) and Caffaro hits the floor hard, taking a few minutes to get back up.
Boston College 33, Virginia 46 | 11:10 2H
Francisco Caffaro is fouled and makes both free throws. Virginia is 12/12 from the charity stripe so far tonight. Kadin Shedrick is fouled on a putback attempt and sinks both free throws, extending the UVA lead to 13 points. Out of the pick and roll, Beekman lobs to Shedrick, who is fouled but manages to score the layup despite the contact. Shedrick cannot complete the three-point play, Virginia's first missed free throw of the night, but the Cavaliers still lead by 15. James Karnik ends the Virginia run with a dunk, but Jayden Gardner responds with a baseline jumper. Karnik absorbs some contact from Gardner and scores again off of the feed from Post. Kihei Clark maneuvers his way through the paint and finishes with a crafty layup. A Kody Stattmann turnover leads to a James Karnik dunk on the other end. Karnik has six of Boston College's eight points in the second half.
Boston College 27, Virginia 36 | 16:37 2H
Makai Ashton-Langford fouls Kihei Clark on a floater attempt on the first possession of the second half and Clark makes both free throws. Armaan Franklin curls around a screen and knocks down the elbow jumper. Jayden Gardner loses the ball for a moment, then puts up a high-arcing jumper and swishes it to give Virginia an 11-point lead, its largest of the game. Jaeden Zackery is fouled and makes both free throws, giving the Eagles their first points of the second half and ending an 8-0 UVA run.
Virginia vs. Boston College halftime stats
Halftime. Boston College 25, Virginia 30
Galloway misses a three but Bickerstaff swoops in for the rebound and finishes with a reverse layup to end the Virginia 7-0 run. Kadin Shedrick muscles his way inside for a layup, but James Karnik works his way inside for a layup over Shedrick on the other end. Karnik scores again as he banks in a jumper with less than ten seconds left in the first half. Virginia inbounds the ball quickly and Kihei Clark drives to the baseline and sinks a floater to beat the buzzer and send the Hoos to the half with a five-point lead.
Boston College 19, Virginia 26 | 2:34 1H
James Karnik is fouled by Franklin and Karnik makes both free throws. Some nice interior passing by Virginia leads to an easy basket for Shedrick, as Gardner fed Shedrick as he cut down the lane. The Hoos follow that possession up with a smothering defensive sequence, forcing Boston College's second shot clock violation of the night. Jayden Gardner goes up for a layup but passes out of it at the last second, finding Kadin Shedrick for an easy dunk. A Kody Stattmann steal leads to a transition three for Kihei Clark off of a pass from Beekman, capping off a 7-0 UVA run.
Boston College 17, Virginia 19 | 5:54 1H
Jayden Gardner ends that field goal drought for the Cavaliers, receiving a pass from Reece Beekman and finishing the layup. Gardner is on a personal 6-0 run. For the second time tonight, Boston College gets a deep shot to fall at the end of the shot clock, as Brevin Galloway sinks a three-pointer from well beyond the arc as the shot clock expired. Jayden Gardner kicks out to Armaan Franklin, who makes the open corner three. Kody Stattmann grabs an offensive rebound and is fouled, making both free throws to give UVA its first lead of the game. Boston College goes big with both Karnik and Post in the game, so Virginia goes big as well with both Caffaro and Shedrick on the floor at the same time. Caffaro works hard in the post and scores over Karnik with a right hook. Brevin Galloway responds by making his second three to tie the game at 17-17. Armaan Franklin pulls up from just inside the arc and drills the long two. Franklin and Gardner are responsible for 15 of Virginia's 19 points so far.
Boston College 11, Virginia 8 | 11:36 1H
During the timeout, Caffaro's foul was upgraded to a flagrant, sending Jaeden Zackery to the free throw line for two foul shots. Langford collects his brother's airball and then drains a heavily contested fadeaway three as the shot clock expired to complete the five-point possession for the Eagles. After a few empty possessions for both teams, Jayden Gardner is fouled by Quinten Post and Gardner makes both free throws to end a 7-0 run by Boston College. Gardner is fouled by Post again, as he jumped on Gardner's shot fake. Gardner makes both free throws again. Virginia has gone 5:49 since its last made field goal.
Boston College 6, Virginia 4 | 15:44 1H
After Virginia plays 40 seconds of defense due to a BC offensive rebound, DeMarr Langford sinks a fadeaway jumper for the game's first basket. TJ Bickerstaff gets loose on a baseline cut for an easy dunk. Jayden Gardner is fouled on a reverse layup and makes both free throws to get the Cavaliers on the board. Virginia forces a shot clock violation as Makai Ashton-Langford is unable to get his floater off in time. Armaan Franklin comes off of a screen and hits a catch-and-shoot mid-range jumper from the baseline. James Karnik backs down Francisco Caffaro and scores in the post after getting Caffaro to bite on a pump fake. Francisco Caffaro draws a smaller guard in the post and Virginia gets the ball to him, but Caffaro is then whistled for an offensive foul as he tried to turn towards the basket.
