We are underway in the Women’s Sweet 16, while Notre Dame, UNC, and Duke are all underdogs they still get to play the games today !

#2 Vanderbilt University and #6 Notre Dame kick off the four straight games today. The Fighting Irish upset #3 Ohio State to get the opportunity, and Miss Hidalgo gives them a fighting chance.

The Atlantic Coast Conference has five of the 16 spots, but it will be an uphill challenge for any of the teams to make it to Phoenix for the Final Four.

We’ll have to take a break in the coverage when it’s time to head to The Hill to announce the softball games.

Vanderbilt is a great story as the Duke University of the SEC has made made tremendous progress in each of the Big 3 sports.

The Commodores hosted Furman University in their second game of the season.

Alyssa Ervin dropped 16 points on the #2 seeded team back in early November!

Notre Dame has an advantage in experience, and the crowd up in Columbus, Ohio, when they beat OSU, will have them ready for any noise in Fort Worth.

Irish on an 11-0 run over five minutes, which gives them a 13 – 5 lead, but it’s still really early.

Coverage off and on until the end of the Duke – LSU game around Midnight.

End 1st – Irish 15, Vandy 11 (3pm)

Stay tuned….

Aubrey Galvan has game ! 12 points to lead the Vandy comeback from down 12.

Getting ready for halftime, Irish still leading behind 16 from Hidalgo.

Notre Dame 31, Vanderbilt 26 (3:28)…

Respectable performance from the Tar Heels 👠!

UCLA joins the party 🥳 called the Elite Eight !

Next up : Duke – LSU !!!!

Sadly, it was not the first pair of tickets that I possessed but didn’t use.

I’m looking forward to watching it on TV 📺 here in a bit.

Duke leads 47 – 40 at the break and are now 20 minutes away from facing #1 UCLA. But there is no chance that LSU is going to just go away.

13 – 9, at first media TO

24 – 19, after 1st

34 – 23 , media TO

47 – 40 , Halftime

Up 61 – 59 at 3rd Quarter Media TO

67 – 65 lead after 3rd quarter…..

10 more minutes…. 11:40 pm

Last Media TO – Duke 83 – 73 [4:45] !!!!

What a ball game !!!!!!!!!!!!

Duke 87, LSU 85 at the buzzer..

Golden 1 Center in Sacramento, California, is set to host half of the Sweet 16 in Women’s Basketball 🏀 and it’s a talented group of Ladies set to take the stage across the four days starting Friday !

It’s been a minute or two (9 years) since I attended a Joel Osteen Night of Hope event in the pristine arena in downtown Sacramento, but I remember it well.

Duke University Women’s Basketball is the #3 seed in the chalk heavy bracket of loaded teams playing on Friday.

On Saturday, there are four more teams with one BIG surprise !

Virginia needed double overtime to win a game in front of 14, 332 screaming Iowa Hawkeye fans to become the first team to advance from the First Four to the Sweet 16.

7 teams and fan bases that absolutely felt they were heading to the Capitol city of California and one awesome surprise.

At 2,646 miles from our home, I am thinking that it is the arena that sits in the lower 48 states that is the furthest from our 🏠???? It turns out that Seattle is 80 miles further and the same for Portland, Oregon.

LSU just broke the All-Time scoring record for most games in triple figures by doing it for the 17th time in the second round versus Texas Tech.

Both LSU and UCLA were part of the 3-6 start by our beloved Lady Blue Devils, and in both cases, we were overmatched. On the flip side of that, Baylor University defeated us in the season opener over in Paris, France 🇫🇷 by 6 points and we won the rematch on Sunday, 69 – 43.

Quick math says that’s a 32-point improvement from the first time around.

We were in the building in Las Vegas when UCLA edged us in late November

Quick math part 2: If we are 32 points better now than in November = we would edge UCLA by 2 points ‼️and advance to the Final Four in Phoenix the following weekend..

The next game after UCLA took place at Cameron Indoor against LSU. We jumped out to a 14 – 1 lead before 92-63 in the other direction. Still, the 29-point turnaround falls inside of the 32-point improvement, so once again, we are Golden !

Seriously though, the odds of finding away past LSU and UCLA in back to back games on the other side of the Country is slim to none but just take a look at what the University of Virginia just accomplished and one can find hope !

The Lady Cavaliers defeated a fellow #10 seed in Arizona State, then upset #7 Georgia and stunned #2 Iowa at Iowa to get to Northern California.

The only thing standing 🧍‍♂️between / protecting me from using our tickets to the game is that we are set to host Pulaski County High School in a softball doubleheader, and commitment is a real thing for me.

With that said, when we chased the Lady Devils around the globe 🌎 back in our November to Remember, we went to special places like Paris, France 🇫🇷, Vegas and even watched them play a game at The Greenbriar Resort in West Virginia. Back then, we weren’t sure what our 3-5 team would turn into, but now we know!

26 – 8 minus 3-5 = 23 -3 or 23-2 since the LSU loss.

For those who want to take a shot at the fact Duke ” only ” plays in the ACC, I would point out that our league has FIVE of the Sweet 16 as Louisville, Notre Dame and North Carolina are still alive in addition to Duke and UVA. They just get to play down in Texas, which is only halfway across the country.

It’s been a great experience with Kira Lawson coaching up our Blue Devils for the past few years, and no matter what happens out in No Cal, we will have Sunday to hold onto.

Besides, it’s not like it’s going to rain out our softball games on Friday afternoon.

So, you’re saying that there’s a chance????

Let the Madness of March begin for Women’s College Basketball 🏀. First here at Cameron Indoor and then off to Carmichael for Travis Osborne

Two pieces of business up front before we take in four of the 16 Women’s games today.

#1 – Yes, I will switch over to a powder blue shirt 👕 for the two games over at UNC. I gotta return the level of respect 🙏 that Travis Osborne showed when he used our tickets 🎟 to attend the UNC at Duke University last month.

#2 – While we want Kira Lawson and our Lady Blue Devils to defeat the Cougars of the College of Charleston, our youngest of three Sons attended the School 🏫 down on The Battery back in the day! No cheering for a wipe out here in the first of four.

Let’s watch some Women’s College Basketball 🏀 !!!!!!

Media TO at 4:54 – Duke 11, C of C 10

End of 1st, Duke 25 – 16

Cougar Sisters have 14 of the 16.

TO – 4:52 – (2), Duke 38 – 18 (27-8 run 🏃‍♀️)

Heading into the break, Duke 45 – 26

Congratulations to the older Lady Cavaliers on their play-in victory last night 🌙!

The end of the 3rd quarter and Duke is racking up fouls. Still leading by 20+, 66-41. 1:03 pm

Live look-in at TCU vversus UC – San Diego. Horn Frogs 🐸 are rolling…

Last Media TO at 4:55, Duke 77 – 55

Sister, Sister has dropped 42 for the Cougars (31,11).

TO at 2:01 – Duke, 79 – 60.. Taryn has 36 now for C of C

Final Score, 1 of 4 is :

Duke 81, C of C 64 at 1:33 pm…

For Duke, one down and five to go !

Durham x 2, Sacramento x 2, Phoenix x 2

2 : 06 – Start of Game 2/4

#11 Nebraska versus #6 Baylor University

Big 10 versus Big 12 in this one.

Nebraska has one advantage in that the played once already inside Cameron Indoor Stadium. The Cornhuskers defeated Richmond two days ago in their play-in game. Already familiar with the building….

Baylor scored the first 7, but now it’s 9-8 as Nebraska has trimmed it to one.

Baylor University was our first opponent back in November over in Paris, France 🇫🇷. It was the start of our 3-6 stretch.

End of 1st quarter – Bears 🐻, 19-11 (2:29)

Media TO at 4:39 (2), Baylor 23 – 18

At the Half…. Nebraska leads 28 – 27 (2:56)

Nebraska 17 – 8 in the second….

Game #3 of 4 just tipped off, 11 miles away !

We had no answer for Taliah Scott back then. She has four at the break here today versus Nebraska

Media TO at 4:56, Nebraska 37 – 35! Good game….

Maryland 28 – 19 after 1st quarter in Chapel Hill.

End of the 3rd quarter here in Cameron and Big Red leads 47 – 41. Biggest lead was seven, now at 6.

Media TO at 4:04, Nebraska lead down to 53 – 52. The biggest was 50 – 41, but BU on an 11-3 run.

Up in Phili, it appears that UVA Men will hold off Wright State. 82 – 73 final for the Hoos.

Maryland 51, Murray State 35 (Half)

Back 2 Back whistles could decide this one , which would be a shame after two teams fought this hard.

Baylor TO at 0:57, they have 3 point lead and possession… 62 – 59

Baylor is set to close it out and advance, they lead 64 – 61 with 0:17.9 left. 23 – 11 run here in the fourth quarter.

Maryland 99, Murray State 67 – Final

In of the first quarter, Tar Heels 16, Western Illinois 10 (6:04)

At the Half – Tar Heels 38, Leathernecks 24 (6:34)

Heels 👠 leading 53 – 27 at Media TO (4:34) after 15 – 3 run.

58 – 33 after 3rd…. both games here very one-sided.

4 games on 2 beautiful campuses = worn out !

Colts place transition tag on Daniel Jones – update on Indiana Jones

Colts place transition tag on Daniel Jones https://thescore.com/nfl/news/3490528

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

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

They followed the Yellow Brick Road from the Science Drive 🚗 Garage !!

Plenty more to follow !!!

#Kindness

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

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

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.🔥🔥🏀🏀

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.❤️🏀

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 🏀, its here and its kinda AWESOME!