Fourth Grade Champions !!!Fifth Grade Champions !!!
Our future is so bright that we might need shades 😎!!!
Now, let’s take a look see 👀 at what Bryce Smoot and Ethan Richardson were up to today over at University of Virginia – Wise.
Both of our Seniors were invited to participate in the All-Star game there today !
Congratulations 👏👏👏 to both players and their families !
This coming Sunday, Head Coach Anthony Barnes and his staff will host their Annual Banquet. This will give the recently finished Cavaliers once more opportunity to share the room as a team.
Noon Tip Time for the Blue Devils split double header. Ladies and Kara Lawson are ready to host the #10 seed Oregon Ducks after they used overtime to sneak by #7 Vanderbilt on Friday night 🌙.
Duke played 40 minutes of suffocating defense Friday while holding Lehigh to just 25 points in their first round victory. That tied the second fewest points ever allowed in a Tournament game and Southern California matched it yesterday afternoon by holding UNC-G to the same total.
Duke is one of six ACC teams that will look to play in the Sweet 16 next weekend. Here’s to pulling for all six!
Let’s Dance 💃
To honor Mr Bill Gallimore, let’s see 👀 about capturing the opening jump ball.
Bill would be Proud !
Lin’s version
1st Media TO – Ducks 7-2 @ 4:42 (1).
End of 1st – Oregon 12, Duke 9
Oregon is led by a 6’8 Canadian
Ducks Big is BIG
2nd quarter Media TO – 4:50, Oregon 22-15 as Ducks are winning the battle on both ends of the court so far.
Duke cuts ✂️ a nine point deficit down to five at the break, 28-23. Oregon is shooting 50% from the floor while Duke is at 36%.
Blue Devils look great when attacking the basket 🧺 but the jump shots have been off target.
15:00 on the Clock ⏰ for intermission.
Duke’s talented Canadian Freshman Toby Fournier is not in the building, to the best of my knowledge. The 6’2 played well on Friday night 🌙, best guess is that she is ill .
Duke is missing her for sure and her 441 points scored, but there’s 20 minutes left to play.
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Duke opens the third quarter with an 8-0 run all scored by #3, Ashlon Jackson. OU calls 📞 a TO at 7:05 with Duke leading 31-28.
Media TO – 4:40 (3), Duke leads 36-29 after a 13-1 start to the quarter. Looks like the UNC third quarter yesterday when the Lady Heels 👠 went 30-9 on the Beavers.
Deja Kelly has dropped nine quick points for Oregon, to go with her nine from the first half. Ducks within 45-40 after being behind by 10.
End of 3rd at 1:27 pm. Duke 45-40
Meanwhile, over in Raleigh…
Dan Hurley is still chasing his 3-peat
Last Media TO – 4:57 left and Duke leads 49-48 and we should be in for a great finish.. Both teams have 29 points from their two leading players!
Oregon TO – 3:19, Duke 53-50
5-1 run 🏃♂️, uo 58-51 @ 1:12
1:00 – Duke TO with ball and 5 point lead
OU TO 0:44.7, same score.
TO Duke at 0:28.6, 58-53, clock ⏰ added to 0:30.5
Oregon TO at 0:29.2 after Duke is called for an offensive foul. Long time for 30 seconds to come off the clock ⏰
2:07 – Duke Wins !!!
2:32 – Game #1 ends in Raleigh as Florida wins by 2.
3:05 – Duke tips versus Baylor
1st Media TO – 15:48, Duke 7-6
Coop gets poked in his right eye 👁
Media TO – 11:35, Duke 15-13
3,461 was the announced crowd back at Cameron. Not to bad, considering the conflict with both games.
Media TO – 7:39, Baylor up 24-23.
Duke Women will await the winner 🏆 of #3 UNC and #6 West Virginia
Under 4:00 at 3:57 – Duke 33-27 after a 10-0 run 🏃♂️.
Baylor TO at 1:58, Duke 40-30 after hitting six straight FG.
Halftime score – Duke 47-30, closed half on 24-6 run 🏃♂️. Men trying to join the Women in the Sweet 16 – 4:10 pm
*** Notre Dame Women give the ACC a second team in the Sweet 16 with four more shots later today and tomorrow.
4:30 – Second Half
Under 16 TO – 55/40
Under 12 at 11:18, 63-48. Baylor up 18-16 in second half.
Under 8:00 at 7:51 – Duke 70-51
5:07 – under 4;00 TO, 79-58
Final minute, 89-66 at 5:17 (F). Proctor goes 9 of 10 with 7 3-pointers !!!
E & H was in Chapel Hill yesterday afternoon to play UNC in Women’s Rugby 🏉
Durham – The Cows 🐄 that we like to watch roam the Hillside off our back deck thankfully belong to someone else but we miss them just the same.
Today at Noon, its back to Cameron Indoor Stadium for a round 2 NCAA Women’s Basketball 🏀 tournament game between #2 Duke University and #10 University of Oregon. The #10 seed is relevant because at the end of Round 1 Chalk finished 28-4.
Two #7’s and two #8’s were the lone seeded in the Top 32 that didn’t make it to the second round which begins today. Unlike the Men’s game, where chalk is a rarity, the Women’s tournament is dependent upon getting the seeds right.
Yesterday afternoon in Chapel Hill was a terrific example as both #3 UNC and #6 West Virginia won their games in front of a sold out Carmichael Arena. Oregon State put up a first half fight with the Tar Heels, playing them to 26-24, before UNC opened the second half on fire 🔥.
The Ladies play on Monday this week and do so to have a stand alone day of National TV 📺 coverage. UNC and WVA will pack the house 🏠 where by comparison, Oregon State versus West Virginia on a work day in Chapel Hill would not do the same. The Women’s tournament has to play the opening rounds on Campus and then have the Home teams take care of business.
Mission accomplished as the Home team went 16-0 in the first round. Duke, Notre Dame and North Carolina State each landed one of the Sweet 16 Host sites and the league has six of its eight teams still playing. By comparison, the Men are down to just Duke University.
Cameron Indoor would be a little light in regards to attendance today if Lehigh University had tripped up the Blue Devils. As it is, the Men are playing at 2:45 over in Raleigh (20 miles between buildings) so they will be a house divided anyway. Here’s hoping that Connecticut needs six overtimes to beat the Florida men in the opener so that the transition from one building to the other can be a little easier.
The stops ✋ in the three week journey into Atlantic Coast Conference post season Basketball 🏀 ends today in regards to the in person part. Greensboro for the Women’s ACC was followed by Charlotte for the Men’s ACC and then it was on to Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill for the Opening rounds of the Big Dance 💃. Hopefully both the Duke teams will prevail today and then be joined by UNC and North Carolina State tomorrow. Maybe even Notre Dame can join the Sweet 16??? Louisville and Florida State will have to pull off upsets 😡 to continue playing next weekend.
The beauty of the Women’s tournament in regards to the ACC is that the success won’t lead to the winning teams lining up to sue themselves out of the league as was the case with Football. Travis Osborne reached out yesterday after he realized we were in Carmichael, cheering on his Tar Heels and noted that the Ram 🐏 was smiling.
Yes, the Ladies have N.I.L $$$ and the transfer portal but the game still feels the same to me. The majority of the players remain with their Schools 🏫 which makes it a bit easier to follow them.
It’s been fun to see 👀 so much of it one last time, for sure but with that said I am ready to get back to the before mentioned Cows 🐄.
Dakota Walls is currently working on a new look for his stock car 🚗 this season and Pink will be playing a role in it! Looking for to seeing 👀 the finished product shortly.
Vickey Ritchie has been incredibly busy the past two days and that will continue today as our Special Olympics Basketball 🏀 Coach will be holding a Basketball camp today. This will be Day 3 of 3 in a busy, busy stretch and we are looking forward to getting back together with her ahead of the trip to Lexington coming up soon.
We will wrap this up with a sneak peak look at a busy Monday as six Cavalier teams will return to action 🎬
Four Soccer ⚽️ teams and two Softball teams will take to the Pitch and the Diamond 💎 so there will be ample opportunity to shout out – Go Cavaliers!
A.S.P.N on The Hill 