Virginia vs. Campbell Live Updates | NCAA Men's Basketball

Score updates and live analysis for the UVA basketball game against Campbell on Wednesday night at John Paul Jones Arena.

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The Virginia Cavaliers (1-0) held on for a 65-56 victory over the Campbell Fighting Camels (1-1) in the 2024-2025 season opener on Wednesday night at John Paul Jones Arena. See a full play-by-play and live analysis for the game in the thread below. Updates are in reverse chronological order with the most recent updates at the top of the page.

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Read five quick takeaways from UVA's win over Campbell here: Virginia Basketball Beats Campbell 65-56 in Season Opener | Key Takeaways

Campbell 56, Virginia 65 | Final

Rohde is fouled in the back court and makes 1/2 free throws. UVA leads 63-56. Buchanan blocks Sinani's layup attempt and Virginia gets the ball up the floor before Ames is fouled with 25 seconds to go. Ames makes both free throws to extend the UVA lead to 65-56. Campbell misses a three and Virginia secures the rebound and dribbles out the clock. UVA wins 65-56.

Campbell 56, Virginia 65 | Final

Taine Murray is fouled in the back court and makes 1/2 free throws. Duggan misses a three-pointer and UVA eventually secures the rebound. Rohde has the ball poked out of his hands and out of bounds. The refs are reviewing the play. Looked like Campbell committed a couple of uncalled fouls there.

Campbell 56, Virginia 62 | 44.4 2H

Virginia struggles to get any offense going for the entire shot clock and then McKneely chucks up a deep three that misses everything. Saunders collects it and scores off the glass, but the refs review the play and determine that the ball was still on his hand when the shot clock expired. No basket. Sinani is left open for a baseline drive to the basket and Saunders comes over to block the layup, but is called for his fifth personal foul, sending him out of the game. Sinani goes 1/2 from the free throw line and its 59-54 with less than two minutes to go. McKneely is fouled coming around a screen and he makes both free throws to push the UVA lead to 61-54. Sinani drives to the basket and Buchanan comes over to block it, but he's called for a goaltend. It looks like Sinani's layup wasn't going to go in, so that's a tough mistake by Buchanan.

Campbell 56, Virginia 61 | 1:16 2H

Caleb Zurliene hits a step-back jumper in the corner, but his foot was on the line so it's a two-pointer. Saunders, playing with four fouls, responds with a hook shot in the paint. Gregory hits a contested baseline jumper. Rohde finds Buchanan with a sweet bounce pass and Buchanan hits a short push shot in the paint. Buchanan then comes up with a big block on the other end on Duggan, but Dorsey then steals the ball and takes it the other way for a layup. It remains a six-point game with two and a half minutes to go. Timeout Campbell.

Campbell 53, Virginia 59 | 2:36 2H

Buchanan is fouled but misses the front end of a one-and-one. Virginia forces another shot clock violation. UVA breaks Campbell's full court press and Murray's lob doesn't connect with Buchanan, but the ball falls to Cofie, who dunks it home. Van Der Heijden dances around Buchanan and scores off the glass. Virginia calls its second timeout with 4:57 to go in regulation and 11 seconds on the shot clock.

Campbell 47, Virginia 55 | 4:57 2H

Some things will stay the same even without Tony Bennett - John Paul Jones Arena just erupted as Virginia forced its first shot clock violation of the season. Buchanan finds Cofie for a dunk, but Campbell responds on the other end with its 11th three-pointer of the game, this time from Zurliene. The Camels aren't going to make this one easy for the Cavaliers.

Campbell 45, Virginia 53 | 7:01 2H

Campbell takes advantage of another second-chance opportunity and Duggan scores at the rim. Virginia is called for its seventh team foul, so Campbell will be in the bonus the rest of the way. Duggan makes both free throws to cut the UVA lead to six points. McKneely ends a Virginia scoring drought of more than three and a half minutes by driving to the basket and scoring with relative ease. The Cavaliers need to assert their will in the paint over these last eight minutes.

Campbell 42, Virginia 51 | 7:57 2H

McKneely finds Cofie open under the basket and Cofie slams home a dunk to end the 6-0 Campbell run. McKneely gets a mismatch with a center guarding him and he drives and hits a short jumper high off the glass. That's the type of individual playmaking Virginia is going to need desperately from McKneely this season.

Campbell 38, Virginia 48 | 11:25 2H

Elijah Saunders opens the scoring in the second half with another turnaround hook shot. He's hit two of those tonight and both have looked very smooth. The Camels pick up where they left off with the three-point shooting, as Eric Van Der Heijden hits a three. UVA plays some high-low with its forwards and Buchanan finds Saunders underneath for a basket. Buchanan is fouled and makes both free throws. Campbell gets a second-chance opportunity and cashes in as Sinani drills a three-pointer. UVA responds on the other end as McKneely finds Saunders, who finishes at the rim plus a foul. That wasn't technically a dunk, but Saunders threw it in the basket emphatically. Cofie nearly comes up with a steal but trips and falls to the floor, allowing Frank an opportunity to hit the open three. Rohde turns the ball over and Gregory hits Campbell's 10th three-pointer of the night. The officials call a questionable offensive foul on Elijah Saunders, his fourth personal foul.

Campbell 38, Virginia 44 | 13:21 2H

Virginia turns it over on its final possession of the first half and then Nolan Dorsey knocks down Campbell's sixth three-pointer of the half just before time expires. The Cavaliers lead by nine at halftime and Jacob Cofie is the game's leading scorer with 10 points on 4/4 shooting. Ishan Sharma is also perfect with six points on 2/2 shooting. Andrew Rohde has four assists.

Campbell 26, Virginia 35 | Halftime

Cofie gets the ball on the low block and finds a cutting Buchanan for a dunk. Gudmundsson cuts back door and finishes through contact to end a scoring drought for Campbell. Rohde kicks to Jacob Cofie, who rattles home a corner three, his second triple of the game. Rohde sends a great cross-court pass to Ishan Sharma, who swishes his second three-pointer. Virginia's pair of true freshmen are a combined 4/4 from beyond the arc so far.

Campbell 23, Virginia 35 | 34.7 1H

At the end of the shot clock, UVA's two true freshmen connect as Ishan Sharma passes to Jacob Cofie, who swishes a high-arcing three-pointer. Terren Frank hits a mid-range jumper for Campbell, but Saunders responds on the other end by backing down his defender and hitting a turnaround hook shot. McKneely takes matters into his own hands late in the shot clock and hits a fadeaway jumper at the free throw line. Virginia has made its last four shots to take its largest lead of the game.

Campbell 21, Virginia 27 | 2:57 1H

Taine Murray pumps fakes out of a corner three and drives in for a short floater. Buchanan misses a pair of free throws and Nolan Dorsey splashes a three to give his team the lead. Rohde drives inside and sends a great cross-court pass to Ishan Sharma, who had just checked into the game, and Sharma quickly pulls the trigger and drills his first collegiate three-pointer. Murray slashes from the corner and scores at the rim. Duggan responds with a three-pointer, Campbell's fifth three of the game. For context: the Fighting Camels made three triples in their entire first game on Monday.

Campbell 19, Virginia 20 | 6:22 1H

Bragi Gudmundsson pulls up at the end of the shot clock and drills the three, Campbell's third of the game in as many tries. Some crisp ball movement from the Cavaliers frees up TJ Power at the top of the key and he swishes it for his first basket as a Wahoo. Jacob Cofie comes up with a steal and takes it himself for a slam dunk. Jasin Sinani finds a cutting Colby Duggan for an easy layup for Campbell. Omar Harris drives through contact and scores off the glass to tie the game.

Campbell 13, Virginia 13 | 11:47 1H

Blake Buchanan is fouled rolling to the rim and makes one of two free throws for the first point of the season. TJ Power is late on a close-out and Caleb Zurliene knocks down a corner three to get Campbell on the board. It takes more than two minutes for Virginia to make its first shot and of course it's Isaac McKneely coming off of a screen and hitting a three from the left wing. Power sends a beautiful bounce pass to Buchanan who slams home the dunk. Cam Gregory pulls up with a hand in his face and drills the three-pointer. The Fighting Camels shot 3/17 from three in their season opener but make their first two triples tonight. Jacob Cofie scores his first basket as a Cavalier, finishing at the rim off the dish from Buchanan.

Campbell 6, Virginia 8 | 15:59 1H

Virginia has announced its starting five for tonight's season opener vs. Campbell:
- Andrew Rohde
- Isaac McKneely
- TJ Power
- Elijah Saunders
- Blake Buchanan

Interesting that the Cavaliers go with Rohde as the starter at point guard rather than Dai Dai Ames.

One pregame player availability note for Virginia: it appears that redshirt freshman guard Christian Bliss will not play in tonight's season opener against Campbell. Bliss is in sweatpants along with Vanderbilt transfer Carter Lang and sophomore guard Elijah Gertrude, who, as previously announced, will miss this entire season with a knee injury suffered in a scooter accident back in April. We're not sure if Bliss or Lang have suffered injuries that have caused them to be unavailable for this game, but they will not be on the court for UVA in tonight's game. It will be up to Dai Dai Ames and Andrew Rohde to handle the point guard duties for Virginia against Campbell.

Pregame Notes for Virginia vs. Campbell

• This is the first-ever meeting between Virginia and Campbell.
• UVA has won 13 of its last 15 season-opening games and 24 of its last 26 season-openers.
• Virginia is 96-23 in all-time season-openers.
• UVA is opening its 120th season of men's basketball and currently has a 1,743-1,215 all-time record (.589)
• Virginia is 102-30 all-time against teams who are currently members of the Coastal Athletic Association.
• Wednesday's game will be the first for Virginia without Tony Bennett on the sideline, as the three-time National Coach of the Year and the program's all-time winningest head coach announced his retirement on October 18th after 15 seasons coaching UVA.
• Ron Sanchez was named the interim head coach for the 2024-2025 season. Sanchez has been on Bennett's staff at Virginia for 10 total seasons and also served as the head coach at Charlotte for five seasons from 2018-2023, turning in a 72-78 overall record.

Read some more preseason content for the 2024-2025 Virginia men's basketball season below:

UVA Basketball: Five Pressing Questions for Virginia in 2024-2025

Virginia Basketball: Isaac McKneely "Excited" to Play for Ron Sanchez

UVA Basketball: How Jalen Warley's Departure Affects Virginia's PG Situation

UVA Basketball: Three Breakout Candidates for the 2024-2025 Season

Why Did Tony Bennett Retire? UVA Basketball Coach Explains Decision