Virginia vs. Coppin State Live Updates | NCAA Men's Basketball

Score updates and live analysis for the UVA basketball game against Coppin State on Monday night at John Paul Jones Arena.

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The Virginia Cavaliers (2-0) cruised to a 62-45 victory over the Coppin State Eagles (0-4) on Monday 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 a few quick takeaways from the game here: Virginia Basketball Beats Coppin State 62-45 | Key Takeaways

Coppin State 45, Virginia 62 | FINAL

With the game in hand, Anthony Robinson checks in for the first time this season. Ward makes a couple of free throws for Coppin State, but then Ames walks into a three-pointer and swishes it for his second triple of the night. Taine Murray's nightmarish game continues. He has six turnovers and zero points scored. Anthony Robinson scores his first career bucket, getting inside for a layup. This game can't get much worse for Murray, who fouls Ward on a three-pointer and Ward makes it to put Coppin State over 40 points for the game. Coppin State ends the game on a 7-0 run, but Virginia dribbles out the clock and improves to 2-0 with a 62-45 victory.

Coppin State 45, Virginia 62 | Final

Cofie takes the ball the other way and slams home a reverse dunk - the freshman is into double figures with 11 points and has his first-career double-double with 11 rebounds. Oduro hits a three-pointer from the top of the key, Coppin State's third three of the game. Taine Murray turns it over for the fifth time tonight and Ward gets an easy dunk on the other end. Ron Sanchez calls timeout.

Coppin State 34, Virginia 57 | 4:32 2H

Cofie is fouled and makes both free throws. Buchanan grabs a rebound off a missed Sharma three and dishes to Ames, who takes it inside and hits a short jumper in the paint. Cofie gets a wide-open look from the right wing and drains the three for his first made basket of the night. Brown sinks a pair of free throws. Murray misses a three-pointer, but Cofie skies for the putback.

Coppin State 29, Virginia 55 | 7:24 2H

Cofie is fouled inside and makes both free throws. Ames commits an ill-advised foul on a desperation Zahree Harrison three-point attempt just as the shot clock was expiring. Harrison makes all three free throws. Virginia executes the high-low action and Cofie finds Saunders underneath for an easy layup. UVA runs the floor in transition with McKneely feeding Saunders in the lane and he draws a foul and makes both free throws. Ishan Sharma throws a great pass up the floor and finds Saunders for a transition layup. Coppin State has missed its last seven shots and hasn't scored in more than four minutes.

Coppin State 27, Virginia 46 | 11:02 2H

It's a pretty good start for Virginia to start the second half, as Dai Dai Ames makes a great block on a layup by Brown and then McKneely lobs to Blake Buchanan for an alley-oop slam. Khali Horton gets a clean look from the corner and drains Coppin State's first three-pointer of the evening. Brown fouls McKneely on a three-pointer and he goes 2/3 from the charity stripe. Derrius Ward pulls up from the left wing and swishes another three for the Eagles. Buchanan grabs his own miss away from teammate Elijah Saunders and lays in the putback off the glass. Oduro scores over Buchanan in the paint as CSU is starting to get into a rhythm offensively, making three shots in a row.

Coppin State 24, Virginia 38 | 15:42 2H

McKneely gets free for another three-pointer on the left wing and he splashes it again. He's made four of his six three-point attempts and leads all scorers with 12 points. McKneely plays great defense on Derrius Ward and blocks his last-second layup attempt. UVA ends the half on a 12-2 run and has doubled up Coppin State at halftime.

Coppin State 16, Virginia 32 | Halftime

Isaac McKneely is starting to heat up. He hits back-to-back three-pointers out of the timeout and it's a 9-0 run for the Cavaliers to open up their largest lead of the game at 29-14. Coppin State stops the bleeding as Peter Oduro finds Dunn for a layup. Larry Stewart calls a timeout.

Coppin State 16, Virginia 29 | 2:20 1H

Power misses a clean look at a three on one end and then gives up a basket on the other end as Dunn drives on him for a layup. McKneely has a three go in and out, but Saunders grabs the rebound and sends in a putback jump hook. Toby Nnadozie draws two defenders down low and finds Dunn for a wide open dunk. UVA answers with another three and this time it's Dai Dai Ames splashing one from the corner. The Cavaliers have already attempted as many threes tonight as they did in their season opener and are 4/13 so far (31%).

Coppin State 14, Virginia 23 | 3:36 1H

Dai Dai Ames works around a Blake Buchanan screen and gets to his spot for a baseline jumper. Virginia has had some issues figuring out this extended 2-3 zone Coppin State is running, but it might be as simple as firing off some threes. TJ Power pulls up from the left wing and drills UVA's third three-pointer of the night. Jonathan Dunn scores with a reverse layup. Ames comes up with a nice block and UVA pushes the ball in transition, leading to a foul and a couple of free throws for Saunders, who is up to seven points to lead all scorers.

Coppin State 10, Virginia 18 | 7:39 1H

Both of UVA's true freshmen are now in the ball game as Ishan Sharma checks in to join Jacob Cofie. Brown gets around Cofie and scores at the rim just before the shot clock expires. Virginia answers on the other end as Sharma finds McKneely on the left wing for an open three and McKneely drills it Cofie blocks Khali Horton's shot, but Horton gets it back and draws a foul on Buchanan, making 1/2 free throws. Zahree Harrison drives on Sharma and scores through contact off the glass. Virginia has turned the ball over three times in the last two minutes and four times already tonight.

Coppin State 8, Virginia 11 | 11:16 1H

Blake Buchanan wins the opening tip and we're underway here at John Paul Jones Arena. Cam'Ron Brown shakes TJ Power with a spin move and hits a fadeaway jumper for the game's first points. Dai Dai Ames makes his presence felt with his first basket as a Wahoo, knifing into the paint and scoring with his left hand plus a foul. Coppin State sits in a zone defense and UVA breaks it down as Elijah Saunders knocks down a corner three. Derrius Ward drives to the rim and draws a foul on Saunders, making 1/2 free throws. Saunders gets the ball on the low block and gets into the paint for a short jumper. He has five of Virginia's eight points to start the game.

Coppin State 3, Virginia 8 | 14:30 1H

Read a full preview for the game here: Virginia Basketball vs. Coppin State Game Preview, Score Prediction

Virginia has posted its starting five for tonight's game:
- Dai Dai Ames
- Isaac McKneely
- TJ Power
- Elijah Saunders
- Blake Buchanan

Dai Dai Ames gets the start for the first time in a Virginia uniform, replacing Andrew Rohde as the starting point guard. The rest of the starting five is the same as the season opener.

As posted by the official UVA men's basketball Twitter account, Rohde will miss tonight's game with a back injury. As it stands, Dai Dai Ames will be the team's lone point guard. Expect Isaac McKneely to share some of the ball handling duties tonight as well.

Some pregame injury notes for Virginia: as expected, it appears that Christian Bliss will miss tonight's game with a foot injury that held him out of the season opener as well. UVA interim head coach Ron Sanchez did not provide a timetable for a return for Bliss last week.

Pregame Notes for Virginia vs. Coppin State

• Monday marks the fourth-ever meeting between Virginia and Coppin State in an all-time series that dates back to the 1993-1994.
• The Cavaliers won the previous three meetings with the Eagles, all of which have taken place in Charlottesville. UVA beat Coppin State 63-61 in 1993 at University Hall, 97-40 in 2018 at John Paul Jones Arena, and 68-52 in 2021 at JPJ.
• Virginia is 22-0 all-time against current members of the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC). UVA's last game against a MEAC opponent was on December 5th, 2023, when the Cavaliers defeated NC Central 77-47 in Charlottesville.
• UVA is 99-10 in non-conference play at John Paul Jones Arena since the 2009-2010 season.

Read more on UVA's season-opening victory over Campbell in the links below:

UVA Basketball: Christian Bliss Injury Update, Point Guard Situation

Jacob Cofie Shines in Debut, Leads UVA Basketball to Season Opening Win

The Plus/Minus: Virginia Basketball Takes Down Campbell 65-56

Virginia Basketball Beats Campbell 65-56 in Season Opener | Key Takeaways