Let’s call πŸ“ž this one : Mothers πŸ‘© and Daughters ! We celebrate our Alyssa Ervin being named 2nd Team All – SoCon ahead of the tournament on Thursday.

The three amigos that can stake a claim to being the Real Alyssa Ervin Top Fan will all have to agree that Christy is the only one that goes by the title of Mom!

Big Day for a number of folks connected with The Hill !

Marion Harris is the one who has the story about encouraging a very young little Girl that she should try and play Basketball πŸ€.

Kris Richardson is the one who coached her early on in her career and later helped pen πŸ–Š a Book πŸ“– about her.

I get to be the one ( and only ) person to both create the Book about her and the other Lady Cavaliers and then become a beat writer for the 2025 – 2026 Lady Paladins.

Ed Robtison gets the credit for Coaching her through Outlaws Travel Ball.

Marc Motley helped put a couple of rings πŸ’πŸ’ on her fingers but the happiest and proudest person in the Circle πŸ”΅ is Mrs Christy Ervin !!!

Editor Note πŸ“ : Jon Ervin is probably smiling tonight as well !

Clare Coyle, the intense anchor βš“ to the Post game for the ‘Dins made 1st Team!

Johnny Dawkins ( Class of 1986) took his Central Florida University team into the Marriott Center late last night πŸŒ™ and punched their ticket 🎟 to the Big Dance πŸ’ƒ!!!

Playing in front of 18,000+ and a long way from Sunny Orlando, CFU captured the much needed Quad 1 victory over a talented BYU team !

Dawkins is in his 10th season at CFU and the only time they made the NCAA field was back in 2019, when the team earned the schools only tournament victory before falling in the Round of 32.

CFU has only made the Big Dance πŸ’ƒ five times in its history but that number figures to go up to six here shortly !

The Big Game is on ABC here in just a bit and we have two members of the Travis Osborne πŸ‘ͺ about to both absorb and later report on the action πŸŽ¬!

How did they get to the enchanted place called Cameron Indoor Stadium ?

They followed the Yellow Brick Road from the Science Drive πŸš— Garage !!

Plenty more to follow !!!

Digging the Shirt πŸ‘•, Mr Osborne !!

#Kindness

This smiling face captured our Jump Ball !!!!!

Little One has Skillz!

On a final note, a very nice Security Guard gave Mackinlee some Official Duke rain wear as we were exiting the stadium 🏟 πŸ˜€

Some thoughts from Travis during the game :

End of 1st quarter Duke-19 UNC-18.

3:34 to go in the first half. UNC up by 3, 31-28

Duke with a Big Rally to capture the lead 41-33 at the half.πŸ”₯πŸ”₯πŸ€πŸ€

Media TO 4:32 in the 3rd quarter. Duke holds the lead @ 47-41.

This place is ELECTRIC!!!

A rally by the Heels late in the 3rd quarter puts us going into the final quarter with Duke-58, UNC-54. IT’S Gonna be a Wild Finish!!!

An offensive foul followed by a Technical on UNC has turned this place “CRAZY”!!

4:41 to go in regulation Duke-67, UNC-61.

A TREMENDOUS ballgame from start to finish!!!! Congratulations to the Lady Blue Devils on their 72-68 Victory over UNC.β€οΈπŸ€

    Now it’s time to head for the Mountains!!!

Travis, did you rub elbows with any Celebs ?

That the other Coach that uses the Volleyball 🏐 stadium, right ??

Breaking News : Women’s Basketball πŸ€, its here and its kinda AWESOME!

Sunday Morning πŸŒ„ Brew will include a Wild Saturday wrapup βž• Girls Wrestling, Travel Volleyball 🏐 Day 2 and Travis Osborne covers the Women’s side of Duke – North Carolina Basketball πŸ€

Today & Tomorrow
Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day will appear here shortly !

Today will be Travis Osborne Day here on our site as Mr T will have his Bible Verse, a Volleyball update and a great college Basketball showdown from inside Cameron Indoor Stadium !!!

Here is the complete list of things we were tracking today :

Four Carroll County High School Basketball πŸ€ games versus Floyd County

Our JV Girls won 31 – 23

Our JV Boys fell 57 – 19

Our Varsity Girls fell 62 – 44

Our Varsity Boys fell 76 – 44

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That concluded 5 games in just 6 Days

Saved By the Bell πŸ””: The Cavalier College Years also had four games…..

Elijah Cox and Randolph College won 80-69

Bryce and Brayden Smoot βž• SWCC fell 75 – 69 but Bryce dropped 16 points and we will have more on that game later.

Katie Lam and Roanoke College fell 71 – 61

Alyssa Ervin and Furman University won 63 – 61 and we will have our normal Day after story tomorrow on this one.

Each of those eight games has an individual post πŸ“« with a varying level of information about how it went.

The two College games we took our Grandson Nosh to both had exciting endings and both times the Home team prevailed.

Southern Utah University Women won 78 – 67 over UT – Arlington in Cedar City.

Utah Tech Men claimed a share of first place in the WAC with a 70 – 65 victory over California Baptist University.

West Virginia Tech University Baseball ⚾️ split a twin bill down in North Carolina

Rampage-14 played three matches, also in North Carolina. The team finished up 1-2 and will return to action 🎬 here in a smidgen.

Patricia Lineberry had a big day yesterday and Marion Harris has provided me with ample Nuggets and that story is in the Hopper.

Quick Recap – Travis Osborne Dau on Sunday, I will create three stories on Alyssa Ervin, Bryce Smoot and Patricia Lineberry!

Have a Blessed Day πŸ™ŒπŸ™….