Louisville vs. Virginia preview – Yahoo Sports

Louisville Cardinals (12-4, 2-2) vs. Virginia Cavaliers (14-2, 3-1)

Game Time: 7 p.m.

Location: KFC Yum Center: Louisville, Ky.

Television: ESPN2

Announcers: Dave O’Brien (play-by-play) and Cory Alexander (analysis)

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Favorite: Louisville by 3.5

Series: Virginia leads, 24-7

Last Meeting: Louisville won 81-67 on Jan. 18, 2025 in Louisville

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Projected Starting Lineups:

Louisville

G Adrian Wooley (6-4, 200, So.)

G Isaac McKneely (6-4, 195, Sr.)

G Ryan Conwell (6-4, 215, Sr.)

F J’Vonne Hadley (6-7, 210, Sr.)

C Sananda Fru (6-11, 245, Jr.)

Virginia

G Dallin Hall (6-4, 197, Sr.)

G Malik Thomas (6-5, 215, Sr)

G Sam Lewis (6-7, 210, Jr.)

F Thijs De Ridder (6-9, 238, Fr.)

C Johann Grunloh (7-0, 238, Fr.)

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About Virginia:

At the midway point of the regular season, the second highest-ranked team in the ACC according to every predictive metric in existence isn’t Louisville. It isn’t North Carolina or NC State either.

That distinction belongs to the Virginia Cavaliers, who are enjoying a strong return to prominence in their first season under new head coach Ryan Odom. UVA enters Tuesday night’s top 20 showdown with Louisville owning a 14-2 overall record, with their only losses coming on a neutral floor against Butler (80-73) and in a triple overtime road loss to arch-rival Virginia Tech on New Year’s Eve.

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The Cavaliers are talented, exciting, and — for the first time in a couple decades — driven by their offense.

Long gone are the stall ball/pack line days of former head coach Tony Bennett and last season’s interim head coach Ron Sanchez. While UVA still doesn’t play at a breakneck pace, they’ve already scored 80 or more points in 13 games, the most by a Virginia team in a season since they accomplished the feat 13 times 2001-02. The Hoos’ current average of 85.1 ppg would be the second highest in the history of the program (89.8 ppg in 1954-55).

Virginia returned…

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