Frankie is so happy
@clemsonlife1
He will graduate in April after 5 yrs at Clemson (we took the covid year)
He works, goes to class, in a fraternity & plays on a hoops team! A full 5 yrs of the college experience! We are so proud of him & his classmates/teammates!
Waited many years to share this picture of me w/ Michael. Photo taken in the Fall 1987 in Carmichael Auditorium on UNC campus. He was shooting in gym alone, I asked if I could interrupt for a picture!
Notice he is wearing his UNC shorts under his Bulls shorts!
#TheLastDance
What did we just see!
@PackMensBball
Louisville βοΈ
SyracuseβοΈ
DukeβοΈ
VirginiaβοΈ
UNCβοΈ
5 really good teams and programs!
What a run! What an incredible accomplishment for the guys!
ACC Champs!
Wow!!
First Class by
@CaitlinClark22
@IowaWBB
staff/family to fly to Minny for the
@NaismithTrophy
Player of the Yr award ceremony & congratulate ABoston & Coach Staley.
Caitlin was a finalist for the award along with Haley Jones,Stanford and Nalyssa Smith, Baylor!
Can't even begin to express how proud we are of Frankie for graduating from
@clemsonlife1
How cool is it for the President to be your friend! Thank you
@ClemsonPrez
Thank you to all that believed alongside us!
26 yrs on sidelines calling college hoops on TV together.
Not aware of any TV broadcast on-air partnership calling games & traveling college landscape together longer.
Grateful to many players,coaches,fans along the way!
This my 35th yr & Iβm thankful for this journey thru hoops
Frankie called to let me know Dabo ran him thru a few spring football drills & he is ready to put on the pads & score some touchdowns!
As a senior, this is his last Spring football practice as a
@ClemsonLife
student! He loves
@ClemsonFB
& Dabo!
36 yrs calling college men's/women's basketball
As excited today as 1st game in Lexington, KY in 1988
Many memories, moments, stories in the game thru the yrs w/ more to come this season
Best wishes to ALL stakeholders in our great game!
From Day 1 to Day ?
#buildserveempower
He did it! Graduated from
@clemsonlife1
We are so proud!
Frankie worked hard to gain independent living skills w/ his team of teachers, coaches & friends. There are so many along this path to thank for believing ..the extra ...the willingness to see what he can do to be his best
Disappointed yet so proud
@PackWomensBball
This group of young women are first class & have represented
@PackAthletics
@NCState
& their families so well. So proud of every player and the entire staff.
NC State offered to put my cutout in Reynolds & I politely declined. Instead, I requested to be in Reynolds with my teammates! 1985 ACC regular season & tourney champs! Feels good! What a crew!
@PackAthletics
@PackWomensBball
5 yrs ago I counted the days he was gone as a FR....now counting down to graduation
Frankie is GRADUATING from
@clemsonlife1
Clemson is so special!
Thanks to the vision, leadership & simply doing the right thing leading in this necessary space
Thank u
@ClemsonPrez
@Beth_Clemson
When
@KimMulkey
was hired
@LSUwbkb
I nicknamed her βROIβ (Return On Investment) because I had feeling this might happen
This is why:
(My research courtesy LSU Athletics)
Combine parking, concessions & ticket sales:
2 yrs before Mulkey $146,000
1st 2 yrs of Mulkey $2.5 million
Thanks for the calls/prayers for Frankie. This week he had hernia surgery and is doing well. So proud of him. He is an excellent patient and recovering at home!
#TeamAntonelli
One of the most energized & engaging athletes
@ClemsonMBB
PJ Hall.
Thanks
@pjhall020
for taking time to spend Frankie.
Your personality & attitude is infectious.
A tough game but still took a minute!
What a 4th Q by
@haileyvanlith
to propel
@UofLWBB
to win vs Kentucky. After going 1-7 thru game, she went 4-4 in 4th.
If you are a shooter, get in the gym, put in the work/reps which leads to confidence which leads to game deciding buckets! Hailey works!
@CoachJeffWalz
I called
@PackWomensBball
vs UVA
2 diff NCST players issued tech fouls saying
#And1
IMO, not egregious nor taunts directed anywhere
#And1
said on on driveway, playground, bench area, by players ALL THE TIME
Part of vernacular as motivation in the game celebrating a tough bucket!
Thank you to all the sponsors that believed in the vision! Thank to the basketball world for giving! This is beyond amazing and exceeded all my expectations! Thank you for caring about Special Olympics!
ESPN analyst Debbie Antonelli (
@debbieantonelli
) makes 2,400 free throws, raises $75,000 for Special Olympics (
@SpecialOlympics
).
Made 2,400 of 2,553 free throws (94% from the FT line). Not too shabby!
Couldn't be a better place for me at the start of
@WeBackPat
then
@KayYowFund
court for
@PackWomensBball
Pat & Kay were the best of friends, won Olympic Gold in 1984. Kay was Pat's Assistant in 1984
This is my guy! Frankie graduated from college period, amen, the end! So many blessings
Thank you
@ClemsonPrez
@Beth_Clemson
&
@clemsonlife1
Thanks to the village that raised my guy! So many smiles and happy tears!
Can you possibly say thank you enough to Tara for all she has done for basketball and young women?
Thank you Tara!
Decades of class and grace. Thank you
Congrats to Debbie Antonelli with ESPN on being named top 100 Most Influential People in Women's College Basketball in 2020 -
@debbieantonelli
πΈ-Second Option TV
Took Frankie back to
@clemsonlife1
to complete final weeks of 4th yr.
Due to Covid, we got a 5th year & will take it! So proud! Goes to class, works a job, joined a frat, WBB mgr, works out, lives w/friends. He loves it!
"Ok Mom, you can leave now. Got any $20s" LOL!
Thanks
@ClemsonFB
for inviting
@clemsonlife1
to practice. Frankie chillin at practice taking selfies w/ Dabo and DJ!
It's the full college experience & Frankie is soaking it all up!
Both teams come together in prayer for Kobe and his family.
@OregonWBB
@BeaverWBB
We have yet to see Sabrina on the floor to warm up. She was friends with Kobe and family.
So proud of
@WolfpackWes
@PackWomensBball
for B2B trips to
#Sweet16
! Wes has done a coach of the year job! Survived 4 ACL injuries, 3 to starters, never complained, never used it as an excuse, kept finding a way!
#nextplayereveryplayer
ready & prepared! On to Greensboro!
Heartbroken to learn about the passing of Anne Donovan, a role model & friend to me and many in the game. Thoughts and prayers with her family. Saw Anne Saturday in Knoxville with her sister Mary and her nephew. Very sad news.
Congrats
@PackWomensBball
@WolfpackWes
on winning the ACC Regular season for the first time since 1990!
#1
seed in ACCT &
#1
seed in NCAA! Another great team win! See you in Greensboro!
Thank you to every play-by-play announcer, producer, director, crew member & the entire ESPN College Basketball Management team. Please know I share this humble honor w/ all of you!
Congrats to ESPN college basketball analyst
@debbieantonelli
on her induction this weekend into the
@WBHOF
, Class of 2022
Saturday's induction ceremony will be carried live on
@ESPNPlus
at 6p ET
Scary, scary news out of Baylor women's hoops: A practice collision caused a spinal cord shock injury to DiDi Richards and Moon Ursin suffered a concussion.
Richards, last year's national Defensive Player of the Year, is out indefinitely.
Thank you Coach Hatchell for your love and passion for this amazing game. Your dedicated commitment to the growth of this game is forever etched in its history as a winner & Naismith Hall of Fame Coach. Enjoy your growing family & many beach sunsets. You deserve it.
Debbie Antonelli (
@debbieantonelli
), a two-time Emmy Award-winning basketball analyst, women's basketball hall of famer and NC State alumna, will deliver the 2023 fall commencement address. π We'll celebrate
#NCState23
graduates on Saturday, Dec. 16.
Thanks for all the calls, texts,tweets & emails on being selected into the 2020
@NCSHOF
. Humbled, blessed & thankful to my decades of teammates & coaches; on the court, in production trucks, in studio, in mgmt, sitting next to me on-air & the fans...I share it with you
Thank You!
My fav Clemson Tiger, Frankie! We are so proud of Frankie & how much fun he is having
@clemsonlife1
, how many friends he has made & how he is getting prepared for a job & to live independantly after college. Isn't that the goal for college students? Thank you Clemson Community!
One of the reasons why the
@KayYowFund
#play4kay
game is so special is the ability to uplift those battling cancer. This is my friend Madylyn who is in the battle. Thanks
@PackWomensBball
&
@ecunane_
for hosting her at practice!
Was so great to be in that atmosphere for the game
@UofLWBB
. Your fans are not just in attendance in the thousands ..they are involved, engaged & actively participating in game. Especially love that cool thing you guys do before the 4th quarter when the building goes red!
Iβm incredibly humbled & honored to receive this award. I loved my high school experience at Cary. I grew up walking to high school & carrying my basketball w/ me everywhere I went w/ my long time friends & teammates!
Iβm still carrying my ball!
Thank you!
Thank you David Stern for having the vision to launch the
@WNBA
under the leadership of Val Ackerman. Prayers for you and your family. You made a difference for generations of little girls who hoop in the driveway, in the playground or in the gym. Thank you. RIP
Way to go
@JayBilas
on the Maori Davenport Alabama high school ineligibility issue. Jim Tooley
@usabasketball
went to the hearing to explain mistake & they STILL won't let this kid play!? That's incredible! Kid did nothing wrong! Way to call them out Jay!
@RutgersWBB
Spent last 24 hours in Iowa City with
@IowaWBB
@LisaBluder
@CaitlinClark22
and staff and team. A behind-the-scenes look at game prep, practice, shootaround etc! More to come!
Not only did
@dariusrucker
keep a promise to sing w/Frankie, he sang w/ Frankie twice! He surprised him on stage in HS at talent show & at Frankie's HS grad party!
Congrats to Darius on
#CMAawards
Frankie is a lucky dude to have Darius as his friend & role model!
@clemsonlife1
Before the game at shootaround told me she didn't sleep, she was nervous & playing in front of a sold out crowd was a dream come true. You deserve to take it all in!
@CaitlinClark22
@IowaWBB
Watching
@UofLWBB
play DePaul...thoughts...
1. If you press UofL, you open the court & they fill lanes scoring on backside easily
2. Olivia Cochran runs ahead of ball & best rim-runner I've seen in hoops in long time!
3. Evans, Van Lith, K Smith perimeter...forget about it!
Come on!! Wow!
#shoottillarmfallsoff
@OregonWBB
If YOU are not practicing the "exit cut" to get outside the 3 pt line, set your feet quickly and square to basket, YOU need to! Impressive!
This sign is hanging on the door outside my
#homestudio
.
These two, Joey & Patrick knock on the door, open it & ask me if they can play Call Of Duty because it's not on the list!
I forgot to write DO NOT ENTER!
@DallasWings
@AtlantaDream
5p
@CBSSportsNet
Intramural hoops team
@clemsonlife1
won 1st playoff gm. Frankie told me he made 10 3s & scored 36. Yeah, right! So I Fact-checked & found this play in his room. Verified w/ coach; made 10 3s & 3 2s scoring 36 w/ this play! Damn! That's some serious
@marchmadness
Lifts my spirit!
The world is a better place because you made it that way
The game is in better shape because you battled to come back.
Basketball owes you a big thank you. It was an honor to call your games and cover your team
Forever inspired...
@Tianamanga
@CuseWBB
Really inspiring stuff here from Syracuse star Tiana Mangakahia. Admire her perseverance: "It was really difficult to come back, and I just don't feel like I was the same, but I would just say that I'm proud of myself.
"It's just a blessing to be able to play this sport."
Carried my little 6' tape measure + 20 years to measure distance shooters shoot from behind 3pt line! Sometimes you gotta measure!
@CaitlinClark22
forced me to get a longer tape measure!
@IowaWBB
4p espn2 w/
@bethmowins
I would often tell Anne Donovan this was one of my favorite pictures in all of college basketball...Nancy, Anne, Inge
One of the classic pictures in hoop history.
#RIPAnneDonovan
Got to hang 1 night w/ these college & FRAT BOYS!
@clemsonlife1
Pic
#1
:Frankie & his crew!
Pic
#2
:Explaining to me I can only stay 1 night then I must leave!
Pic
#3
: Sam, Frankie's roommate after work
Pic
#4
: My happy place because Frankie tells me "he's living the dream". Amen!