Vickie Bastnagel sounded tense early Wednesday night as she talked on the phone while listening to an Internet broadcast of her oldest son's college basketball team.

Dan Cage and Vanderbilt ended up upsetting 16th-ranked Tennessee 82-81 on a tip-in at the buzzer.

Bastnagel's stress level will be a little higher this week when her sons, both Bishop Chatard graduates, are on opposite benches. Dan Cage is a senior starting guard at Vanderbilt while Greg Cage is a redshirt freshman walk-on for 14th-ranked Alabama. The teams play Wednesday in Nashville, Tenn., in a Southeastern Conference game.

"You just want everyone to do well," Bastnagel said. "And it's not just the two of them. Through them, I've met the other kids on the team, so it's the kids I know at Vanderbilt against the kids I know at Alabama."

Dan Cage was one of the top players on Chatard's 2003 Class 3A state title team. He's averaging 11.1 points and is the leading 3-point shooter (42 percent) for Vanderbilt (11-5). Greg has played in four games for Alabama (13-2). Both wear No. 20.

Since the brothers are closer geographically to each other than to Indianapolis, they often spend time off together in Nashville.

"We're definitely very close," Greg said. "We've always been very close growing up, playing together, then coming down here, going through the same things, being in the same conference, playing the same teams."

The group that will travel to Nashville for Wednesday's game includes three Guatemalan orphans Vickie and Phil Bastnagel adopted: Ramiro, 14; Alex, 7; and Mia, 6.

"They're very excited to come down for the big game," Vickie said. "Ramiro has a T-shirt, and he's trying to figure out how to put Dan's face on one side and Greg's on another."

Greg, who took four years of Spanish at Chatard, has been studying the language in college as well.

"We want to kind of help them be aware of their culture, and I'm hoping to study abroad at some point," he said. "We want to raise them as a part of our family but keep them aware of their culture."