Auburn Tigers (30-9) is visiting Virginia Cavaliers (33-3) on April 06, 2019, 6:09 PM ET and playing at the U.S. Bank Stadium.
The Virginia Cavaliers are favored by vegas at a line of -6. The opening line was -5.5 so the public has been betting on Auburn Tigers causing the VIRGA line to shift +0.5. 55% of the community is betting Virginia Cavaliers will win today. Get the consensus from the top 10 users most likely to be right on tonight's matchup below.
Virginia faced off with Purdue in the Elite Eight in a matchup of two teams with lengthy Final Four droughts. The Boilermakers hadn’t been to the Final Four since 1980 while the Cavaliers hadn’t been since Ralph Sampson led them there in 1984. Virginia saw Purdue get hot early, trailing 22-12 with 9:46 to play in the first half. The Cavaliers’ defense kicked into gear as they closed the half on a 17-8 run to trail 30-29 at intermission. In a back and forth second half, Virginia led by as many as eight but found themselves down three with under 10 seconds to play. Jerome was fouled with 5.9 seconds to play and made the first free throw before missing the second. The ball was slapped into the backcourt where it was retrieved by Kihei Clark, who whipped the ball to Diakite. He fired up a jumper right before the buzzer that found the bottom of the net and forced overtime. In the extra session, Hunter hit the go-ahead layup with 28 seconds to go to kickstart a 6-0 run to close things out. Virginia shot 41.5 percent from the field, including nine of 27 from three-point range, and controlled the glass 39-31. Kyle Guy led the Cavaliers with 25 points and 10 rebounds in the win.Sign in to PicksLogic to join the game on your favorite matchups.
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