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PROVO — Emily Johnson will head from Omaha to Indianapolis after watching her son, Spencer Johnson and his BYU teammates lose an in depth recreation Thursday to Duquesne within the first spherical of the NCAA Match.
Why Indianapolis?
Emily Johnson, alongside along with her daughter Gracie Johnson, will drive 600 miles east to observe her son, Isaac Johnson, and his Utah State teammates tackle TCU in one other first-round recreation Friday. That wasn’t within the plans, however with the Cougars’ upset loss she figured what’s one other street journey after all of the miles she has logged the previous couple of weeks. Moreover, she packed an Aggies shirt simply in case. She’ll meet her husband, Darren Johnson, who’s flying from Salt Lake Metropolis to Indianapolis for the sport. On Saturday, she and Gracie Johnson will drive again to Omaha to fly residence.
March actually is insanity for the Johnson household.
Not solely do the Johnson’s sons play school basketball, their daughter Gracie Johnson is a freshman ahead on the Utah State ladies’s crew. There are few, if any, dad and mom who can declare three youngsters taking part in Division 1 basketball on the similar time. And to have two on completely different groups within the NCAA Match is uncommon as effectively.
“March Insanity goes to an entire new stage for us. It truly is sort of insanity in a method. I imply it is nice insanity. I might by no means, by no means commerce it,” Emily Johnson mentioned by phone from the Chi Well being Heart enviornment in Omaha.
Darren and Emily Johnson have been on the street or within the air this month to observe all three youngsters play in convention and NCAA Match video games from Las Vegas to Indianapolis and factors in between.
“We do it as a result of we love our youngsters and so they labored actually exhausting for this second. It actually does not come round fairly often. You simply gotta take pleasure in it when it comes,” Darren Johnson mentioned by cellphone, with the sound of children within the background at Diamond Ridge Elementary College in West Valley the place he’s the principal.
Final week, after watching Utah State play in a first-round loss within the Mountain West Convention ladies’s event in Las Vegas, Emily drove to Kansas Metropolis to see Spencer Johnson, a senior guard, take the court docket for BYU within the Huge 12 event in Kansas Metropolis. After the Cougars misplaced within the quarterfinals, she drove again to Las Vegas — detouring to Albuquerque to keep away from a snowstorm in Denver — in time to catch Isaac Johnson, a Utah State sophomore middle, within the Mountain West males’s event.
In all, she put greater than 3,000 miles on a rental automobile.
Darren Johnson managed to get away for the Mountain West males’s event however wasn’t capable of journey to Kansas Metropolis.
Whereas Emily Johnson and Gracie Johnson had been in Omaha for BYU’s first-round NCAA Match recreation, Darren Johnson barricaded himself in his faculty workplace to observe on TV.
“We needed to divide and conquer on this one,” Darren Johnson mentioned.
For BYU video games, the Johnsons don Cougar blue. They alter into Aggie blue for Utah State video games. Longtime rivals with rabid fan bases, the colleges did not play one another this yr, sparing the dad and mom from having to point out a break up character. In reverse brackets within the NCAA Match, the one method BYU and Utah State would have met was within the nationwide championship recreation.
“I suppose I might say to the fan bases, it is doable to love each universities or a number of universities. You do not have to hate one to be able to like the opposite,” Darren Johnson mentioned.
The Johnsons have been capable of attend most of their youngsters’ residence video games in Provo and Logan this season. Touring for basketball is nothing new for them. Household holidays had been deliberate round varied tournaments and showcases throughout the nation for years.
“It has been simply great. We have been a basketball household for lots of years. I am positive quite a lot of our neighbors thought we had been loopy on the time. However we simply really feel so blessed that our youngsters have these alternatives. They do not come round fairly often,” Darren Johnson mentioned.
Emily Johnson expressed the identical emotions.
“Why will we do that? Effectively, I might say these are their desires. As dad and mom … sorry it may make me cry, really … as a result of as dad and mom we wish to assist their desires. We love them. We’re pleased with them,” she mentioned. “And if we will help them and assist their desires and simply know that that is one thing that they’ll do, and the one factor that we will do is simply be there and cheer.”
Whereas Spencer Johnson’s school basketball profession got here to an finish with 11 factors and 16 rebounds Thursday, the Johnsons will nonetheless have a number of extra years to cheer on Isaac Johnson and Gracie Johnson. And, little question, extra March Insanity will ensue.
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