Virginia faces Purdue on Saturday in the South Regional final with a trip to the Final Four on the line. No. 1 seed Virginia advanced to its second Elite Eight in four years after it beat No. 12 seed Oregon 53-49. Virginia had zero points off the bench and scoring came evenly from its starters. Ty Jerome led the team with 13 points, and Mamadi Diakite scored the least with seven points. Tony Bennett is looking to get to his first Final Four and bring the Cavs back there for the first time since 1984. No. 3 seed Purdue won an overtime thriller against No. 2 seed Tennessee on Thursday. The Boilermakers had a 25-point in the second half before Tennessee stormed back, but Purdue was able to prevail 99-94. Carsen Edwards scored a game-high 29 points, but Ryan Cline stole the show late, hitting seven 3-pointers in the game. Purdue is averaging 13.3 3-pointers made per game in the tournament, the highest of all teams remaining, and hitting them at an incredibly impressive 44 percent. Let's take a closer look at this crucial showdown and see who our experts are picking to advance to Minneapolis next weekend. Viewing information When : Saturday, 8:49 p.m. ET : Saturday, 8:49 p.m. ET Where : KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky : KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Kentucky TV : TBS : TBS Live stream: March Madness Live and fuboTV (try for free) Predictions, picks So who wins Purdue vs. Virginia? And which side of the spread cashes well over 50 percent of the time? Visit SportsLine now to find out which side of the Virginia vs. Purdue spread you should be all over Saturday, all from the model that's up more than $4,000 on top-rated college basketball picks, and find out.<doc-sep>No. 1 seed Virginia is dancing its way into the Final Four for the first time since 1984 after defeating No. 3 seed Purdue 80-75 in overtime on Saturday night. And how's this for a redemption story: Virginia's inclusion into the final grouping comes a year removed from its stunning, heartbreaking and embarrassing first-round exit to UMBC when it became the first No. 1 seed in NCAA Tournament history to fall to a No. 16 seed. "We made bad history last year," Cavaliers guard Kyle Guy said, who after a sluggish start exploded for a tournament-high 25 points. "We're making great history this year." Guy had four points going into halftime and rolled his ankle just before the first half came to a close. But in a wizard-like turnaround, Guy shook loose of the slump that has followed him since the start of the tournament. He opened the second half by making four consecutive 3-pointers and scored 19 of his 25 in the second half, with the remaining two coming via clutch free throws to seal the game late. It was almost all for not, however. Purdue took three-point lead in the final moments before fouling intentionally to avoid a 3-point shot from Virginia. After Ty Jerome made the first, he intentionally missed the second and the ball was tipped over the half-court line. Kihei Clark secured it and found Mamadi Diakite, who buried a mid-range jumper as time expired to send the game to overtime. The star of this game, however, was on the losing end of things. Purdue's Carsen Edwards nearly willed his team to a win with a March moment not soon to be forgotten. He scored 42 points, tied for a career-high he set earlier this week, and came up one 3-pointer shy of an NCAA Tournament record (10 of 19). Six of his triples came in the final 14 minutes of the second half. Virginia will face the winner of Sunday afternoon's matchup No. 2 seed Kentucky and No. 5 seed Auburn. CBS Sports was with you for complete coverage of Saturday night's game from Louisville, Kentucky, with our live blog below. If you are having trouble viewing the blog, please click here. Virginia vs. Purdue commentary Thanks for stopping by.<doc-sep>UVA and Purdue have both been counted out too many times. And despite the talk, Virginia has looked every bit like a National Championship contender after a slow first twenty minutes of the NCAA Tournament. Meanwhile, Purdue has outshot every opponent thus far. Tonight, Virginia’s top-5 defense takes on Purdue’s top-5 offense, and one of them books a ticket to the Final Four. Purdue vs. UVA Date: Saturday, March 30 Time: 8:49 p.m. ET Location: Louisville, KY TV Channel: TBS Live Stream: fuboTV – start your 7-day free trial #3 Purdue The Purdue Boilermakers entered the NCAA Tournament with tremendous expectations to make a deep run and maybe even reach the Final Four. After blowing out both Old Dominion and reigning NCAA champions Villanova, that expectation seemed grounded in reality. The, in their first true test of the tournament, the Boilermakers ran out to a 12-point halftime cushion over #2 Tennessee before relinquishing the lead and seeing regulation end deadlocked. But Purdue has good players all over the floor, and in overtime, they proved that, pouring in 17 points from a variety of players. Carsen Edwards has looked like the tournament’s best player after leading Purdue to a 23-9 regular season record to share the Big Ten championship. They weren’t successful in the Big Ten tournament, losing in the quarterfinals, but that didn’t change the perception or expectation for this team. Matt Painter has already taken Purdue one step further than last year, but when you can smell a Final Four, Elite Eight just doesn’t sound good enough. To win, Edwards, Cline, and Haarms will have to bring their best for a full 40. #1 Virginia A year removed from the most shocking and humiliating NCAA Tournament loss of all time, for any team, UVA never faltered in their opening game against Gardner Webb. Down 14 in the first half and six points at halftime, UVA’s season’s vets regrouped at the break and went on a Goliath-sized run in the second half to put any concerns to rest. March Madness will have to wait one more year for a potential 16-over-1 upset, and Virginia made sure of that. Coach Tony Bennett’s side then went on to destroy #9 Oklahoma in the second round to advance to the Sweet Sixteen, where they dispatched a dangerous Oregon offense by a mere four points, but always appeared in control. They were arguably the country’s top college basketball team in 2018-2019, posting a 29-3 record and winning the Atlantic Coast Conference for the second season in succession. With doubts dwindling and confidence rising, the only team standing between them and the Final Four is quite possibly the hottest-shooting team in March Madness. But if there’s any team that can bottle them up, it’s Virginia. Both programs are gunning for their third Final Four in school history – and first trip since the 1980s. It’s one of the best head-to-head matchups this tournament could have produced, and everything is on the line. We recommend interesting sports viewing and streaming opportunities. If you sign up to a service by clicking one of the links, we may earn a referral fee.<doc-sep>The Purdue Boilermakers began the season in the Top 25 of both polls and in the top-20 of KenPom’s rankings. Despite going just 7-4 over a tough out of conference schedule, they never fell out of the top-20 on KenPom. They did, however, fall out of the polls for nearly two months. Of those four OOC losses, three came to ACC schools. There’s no shame in losing to Virginia Tech or Florida State, but losing to Notre Dame this year was bad. The Irish shot lights out in that game (11-of-21 from downtown), which highlights one of Purdue’s weaknesses, and something that Virginia might be able to exploit. Purdue ranks just 169th nationally in three point defense. On Friday, the Tennessee Volunteers shot 12-of-24 from downtown in the Sweet Sixteen game. Tennessee scored 1.24 points per possession and lost. Virginia’s defense allowed that many points per possession just once this year, the home loss to Duke. You may recall that Duke made 63% of their outside shots in that game. That’s the kind of performance it takes to beat down the Virginia defense like that. Over the three games of the NCAA tournament, Purdue’s opponents are making 46% of their threes. In three games, Virginia is making just 28% of their threes after making 40% on the year. A lot of that, obviously, is Kyle Guy’s 3-of-25 shooting. On the other side, Purdue is making 44% of their treys during the tourney and Virginia is allowing 37% on threes. It’s actually kind of amazing that Virginia is in the Elite Eight despite shooting so poorly and seeing the opposition shoot so well. The Hoos have won by dominating inside, which goes against the narrative of the team. Against Oregon, Virginia attempted a season high 33 treys. But they also had 11 offensive rebounds (30% of their misses), took care of the basketball against a very long and athletic team. Purdue has some similarity to Oregon in terms of style. Both teams play slow, both teams are long. Purdue is more of an offensive minded team, and their defense wanes at times. They are led in scoring by PG Carsen Edwards. Edwards is a second team All-American for the second consecutive year. He scored 42 points against Villanova in the second round, making 9-of-16 from deep. Against Tennessee, he had 29 points on 5-of-14 from downtown. Both of these shots come 20 seconds remaining on the shot clock. That’s not a particularly good shot. But Edwards has that confidence and the green light. He shoots a lot of threes, but he’s not one dimensional. He takes 53% of his shots from downtown, and makes about 35%. But he’s just a 42% shooter on twos, meaning his far more dangerous from outside. In both of those clips, Edwards is guarded by a bigger player. He’s given space because of his ability to get into the paint and either finish or dish. Kihei Clark is going to get the job of guarding Edwards. At 6’1” 200 Edwards will have a size advantage on Virginia’s diminutive PG, but not a big one. Maybe Edwards can shoot over Clark, but Clark isn’t going to give Edwards the same amount of space that he got against Villanova or Tennessee. Clark was fantastic on Thursday against Oregon’s Payton Pritchard, who’s roughly the same size at Edwards (Pritchard had 11 points on 3-of-12 FG). Considering Edwards takes 37% of Purdue’s shots when he’s on the floor, and considering he rarely comes off the floor, Virginia is going to need a similar performance from Clark. As a team, the Boilermakers take a lot of threes. Edwards is part of that, but SG Ryan Cline takes fully 3/4 of his shots from downtown and wing Grady Eifert takes almost 2/3 his shots from downtown. As you’ll no doubt hear during the broadcast, Kyle Guy and Ryan Cline played AAU ball together in the Indianapolis area and faced each other in High School. Cline is bigger than Guy, but their games are similar. Guy is faster and quicker. Cline is really not a particularly good defender. Here’s Cline curling off a screen for a catch-and-shoot three. How many times has Virginia run a similar pay for Guy? The issue here is that Tennessee’s Jordan Bone is way too far off Cline. He has to run through a lot of traffic to follow Cline across the court. That’s a difference between Tennessee’s #41 ranked defense and Virginia’s #3 ranked defense. Purdue will run similar sets for a number of different guys. Guy’s shooting started to come around the other night, making two big threes in the second half against Oregon. He’s due for a big game. We know what he’s capable of, so if he can go off and knock down a few treys, that really changes things for the team. Guy has knocked down at least four treys 10 times this year, but he’s just 5/30 from downtown over the past four games. He’s better than that, and you’d think just by regressing to the mean he’d have to be better against Purdue. Maybe going against his old buddy will help get him going. Eifert is a former walk-on who is the #1 player in the nation in offensive efficiency. His brother, Tyler, is a TE for the Cincinnati Bengals. Grady is 6’6” 220, is very strong on the glass and obviously can shoot the rock. He’s also a willing defender. One of the keys to this game will be Tony Bennett’s defensive matchups. Does it make sense to put DeAndre Hunter on Eifert, who averages fewer than 4 shot attempts per game? Or does Hunter guard Nojel Eastern, a combo guard who can’t shoot from outside (0/4 on the year), but is a slasher and finisher inside. Both are around the same size, but have very different games. On the other end, Eastern is going to be on Hunter. That’s basically a given. Eastern is a very good defender, one of the best in the nation. He’s strong and tough and physical. Hunter was bothered by Oregon’s length, which Purdue can’t really match.<doc-sep>
Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images Kyle Guy scored 25 points and Ty Jerome added 24 as No. 1 seed Virginia beat No. 3 Purdue 80-75 in overtime on Saturday in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament. Virginia won despite 42 points from Purdue guard Carsen Edwards, who hit 10 of 19 three-pointers for the 26-10 Boilermakers. Down 70-68 with seconds remaining in regulation, UVA forced overtime after a haphazard sequence that ended with a Mamadi Diakite jumper for the tie: In the extra session, UVA took a 76-75 lead with 28 seconds left on a De'Andre Hunter two-pointer: Edwards missed a three in response, and Guy made two free throws on the ensuing possession. Purdue still had five seconds left to go full court and attempt a game-tying three, but the Boilermakers committed a turnover. Virginia guard Kihei Clark sealed the game with two free throws. It's easy to fall into a recency-bias trap and say this was the best NCAA tournament game played in the past few years. But how can one not after watching what took place Saturday? Video Play Button Videos you might like The South Regional final was a fantastic matchup that featured a phenomenal individual performance, an all-time great play, few mistakes and two teams who hadn't made the Final Four since well before anyone on the court was born. On Edwards' end, what record didn't he match or set on Saturday evening? The fact that Edwards scored 42 wasn't the most amazing part of the night. It was how he scored those points. Who cares if Edwards called bank on his go-ahead three-pointer with 1:12 left: He also made UVA pay for not defending him at the midcourt logo: If you want to see all of his highlights, check them out here via CBS Sports: Edwards scored 34.8 points in four tournament games. He posted 42 twice, having also done so versus Villanova in the second round. It looked all but certain that Edwards and the Boilermakers were headed to the Final Four, but Clark and Diakite had other plans: Clark had the ball in his hands on the UVA side of the midcourt logo with just 2.0 seconds remaining, showcasing just how much needed to go right for Diakite to get the shot off—let alone make it. His pass needed to be fast and pinpoint accurate just to give Diakite a puncher's chance, and it was. Then, Diakite needed the presence of mind to get a controlled shot off before the buzzer, and he came through. Lee Benson of News9 pointed out the most impressive part of the play, however: The freshman guard showed unbelievable poise and maturity, especially considering the rough night he endured before that moment. Clark had more fouls (three) than points (two) and didn't score until his game-sealing free throws. UVA wouldn't have had a chance to get to that point without the dual dominance of Guy and Jerome. Guy, who had made just three of 26 three-pointers in three NCAA tournament games, broke out in a big way by going 5-of-12 from downtown. He also grabbed 10 boards. Edwards and Guy were going bucket for bucket at one point: CBS SportsLine provided an apt wrestling analogy: And Zach Harper of The Athletic was quite excited: Guy, whose slump-breaking performance seemed inevitable considering he was making 42.7 percent of his threes entering Saturday, has a big fan in ex-Virginia football standout and two-time Super Bowl champion Chris Long: The junior also played through an injured ankle, per Jeff Borzello of ESPN: Jerome was fantastic, leading the team with seven assists. Jeff Greer of The Athletic praised his passing in particular: He also provided some clutch buckets, including this one to put Virginia up 61-57: Jerome only committed one turnover, and the two teams combined had only 14 on the evening. The biggest one occurred with seconds left in overtime, when an Edwards pass to Ryan Cline went out of bounds: Edwards explained the decision to pass postgame: Who can even remotely blame him for the Boilermakers losing, though? Both teams played a phenomenal game in a matchup that featured two teams looking to go back to the Final Four for the first time in decades and simultaneously trying to ward off some old tournament demons. Purdue hadn't been to the Final Four since 1980.