UVA hoops tops Baylor in 1st game since shooting

LAS VEGAS -- Armaan Franklin scored a career-high 26 points, and No. 16 Virginia utilized a large second-half tally to sound disconnected No. 5 Baylor 86-79 connected Friday nighttime successful the team's archetypal crippled since 3 Cavaliers shot players were killed successful a field shooting.

Virginia's players wore sweatshirts during warmups that honored the victims from Sunday's shooting, which led to the cancellation of the Cavaliers' scheduled location crippled a time later. A erstwhile Virginia shot subordinate has been charged with execution successful the slayings of Lavel Davis Jr., Devin Chandler and D'Sean Perry.

The Cavaliers (3-0) volition play the victor of Friday's night's matchup betwixt between No. 19 Illinois and No. 8 UCLA successful Sunday's title of the Continental Tire Main Event. Baylor (3-1) faces the loser successful the consolation game.

Virginia went connected a 21-2 tally successful the 2nd fractional and doubly went up by 22 points.

"That [big run] gave america a distance, and we surely needed that the mode they came back,'' Virginia manager Tony Bennett said. "We couldn't halt them astatine the end, which was the disappointing part.''

Franklin scored 10 points during that burst, and helium finished 7 of 12 from the field, including 3 of 6 from 3-point range.

"I cognize I person teammates who are successful presumption of getting maine the ball, and the aforesaid for them,'' Franklin said. "I cognize they tin make for themselves. It was conscionable taking unfastened shots and being acceptable to shoot."

Keyonte George scored 20 points for Baylor, and LJ Cryer had 19.

Trailing 62-40 midway done the 2nd half, Baylor responded with an 8-0 run. The Bears utilized a full-court property and kept chipping away, doubly getting arsenic adjacent arsenic six points, but Virginia held on.

"We've got to bash a amended occupation of getting casual buckets,'' Baylor manager Scott Drew said. "Normally, we get them disconnected of our antiaircraft transition, and we didn't get immoderate stops for 10 minutes.''

Kadin Shedrick added 17 points for the Cavaliers, Ben Vander Plas had 14 and Reece Beekman scored 10.

The Associated Press contributed to this story.