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BY BRAD FRANKLIN I T WAS WELL INTO THE EARLY morning by the time the bus arrived back in Charlottesville on Nov. 17 last year. On the heels of a tough loss in Foggy Bottom, the sixth-ranked Cavaliers had hit early season adversity dead on. For at least one player on that trip back, the thought of going to sleep was just too much and he knew exactly who to call. There is a bond that players regularly share with their teammates, but the one be- tween third-year guard Devon Hall and his older brother Mark, himself a graduate stu- dent on UVA's football team, is something altogether different. Devon had gone 1-of-6 shooting that night at George Washington, including an 0-of-3 showing from behind the three-point line. He scored just two points in 19 minutes and UVA went on to lose 73-68. But instead of sleep, he needed to get in the gym. And that's where his older brother came in. "I think it was like 2, 3 a.m. when he called me and told me he needed me to come rebound for him," Mark recalled. "And I was like, 'Bro I have to get up in the morning for practice. Do you see what time it is?' And he was like, 'Yeah but I need you.' "There's no way I could say no to that because he felt like he played bad, he felt like he shot bad, he felt like he let his team- mates down, and he just wanted to get some work in," Mark added. "So I got up, got dressed, went down to the practice gym, and helped him out. I got there and thought I was just going to be half asleep while I'm passing him the ball and I'd be fine, but A BOND THAT ENDURES The Hall Brothers, Devon And Mark, Share A Special Experience