Auburn vs Virginia Live Stream Free March Madness Game 2019.It figures to be a wild contrast in styles in the first game of the Final Four on Saturday, when red-hot Auburn tries to impose its up-tempo style on methodical Virginia in Minneapolis with a berth in the national title game on the line. The Tigers have won 12 in a row, including the last three in the NCAA Tournament over college basketball blue bloods Kansas, North Carolina and Kentucky while averaging 87.7 points in those games.

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". ... You understand obviously their quickness, their ability, just how scrappy they are and just a really good team, as everyone is when you get to this stage that's playing good basketball," Cavaliers coach Tony Bennett told reporters of Auburn's style. "Just continuing to dive in, and obviously have great respect for what they've done." Bennett's team has authored a remarkable turnaround in the tournament after an embarrassing first-round exit a year ago, reaching its first Final Four in 35 years by virtue of an overtime win against Purdue in the South Region final. Junior forward Mamadi Diakite's basket to force the extra session will go down as one of the more notable buzzer-beaters in NCAA history and helped Virginia become the only No. 1 seed to reach the Final Four. The winner will take on Michigan State or Texas Tech in the championship Monday night.

TV: 6:09 p.m. ET, CBS

ABOUT AUBURN (30-9): Behind dynamic guards Bryce Brown and Jared Harper, the Tigers break teams down by pushing the ball and finding open shooters on the wings, but coach Bruce Pearl knows that Virginia's top-rated defense presents a unique challenge. "Now, when you play against a team like Virginia, whose efficiency numbers are off the chart both offensively and defensively and they play at one of the slowest paces in college basketball, freedoms that I give my players are going to be challenged because we'd better take advantage of possessions, because they are every single time," Pearl told reporters. "And there will be fewer of them. So we can have fewer empty possessions than we would typically have. Otherwise, we're going to get beat." Harper and Brown combined for 50 points and six steals in the 77-71 victory over Kentucky in the Midwest Region final to help the Tigers survive the season-ending knee injury to star forward Chuma Okeke suffered the previous game versus North Carolina.

ABOUT VIRGINIA (33-3): The Cavaliers have some standout guards of their own and received a combined 49 points from Kyle Guy and Ty Jerome in the win over Purdue, with Guy seizing a career-high 10 rebounds and Jerome handing out a game-high seven assists. Diakite averages 7.5 points and 4.3 rebounds but those numbers have soared to 13.0 and 9.0, respectively, in the tournament. Sophomore guard De'Andre Hunter (14.9 points per game) ranks second to Guy (15.2) on the team's scoring list and has at least 10 in 22 of his last 23 contests.

TIP-INS

1. Virginia yields only 55.4 points per game and holds opponents to 28.7 percent shooting from 3-point range.

2. Harper is averaging 18 points over his last seven games while making 37-of-42 free throws.

3. The Tigers own a 4-3 series advantage, although the teams have not met since 2009.

PREDICTION: Virginia 71, Auburn 69