Twin sisters💝 and social media sensations Haley and Hanna Cavinder will be in the spotlight as the Miami Hurricanes seek to pull off another March Madness 🤡stunner.
The 22-year-old Cavinde🥃r twins have 4.5 million followers on a joint TikTok account and over a million cumulatively on Instagram, and they are formidable on the basketball court.
Hailing from South Bend, In., Haley and Hanna Cavinder began in college at Fresno State and were both All-Mountಞain West players.
Last offseason, the twins transferred to Miami, where their recruitment eventually became enmeshꦉed in controve💃rsy.
Billionaire Miami booster John Ruiz, who is known to lavish Hurricane athletes with massive NIL deals to endorse his businesses, hosted the twins for dinner at his home and was daring enough to tweet aဣbout it.
The NCAA ultimately deemed t♋his dinne🐠r to constitute “impermissible contact.”
Anticipating penalties for helping facilitate the meeting, Miami head coach Katie Meier served a three-game suspension andꦇ the program got hit with other mino🐠r penalties.
For their part, the Cavinder twins responded the best way they know how — by mocking the NCAA on TikTok.
All told, the sisters have had a number of NIL deals, including Victoria’s Secret, Boost Mobile, WWE and John Ruiz’s LifeWallet.
In June, attorney Darren Heitner told The Post’s Kirsten Fleming that the sꦗ♒isters had already grossed over $1 million in NIL deals less than halfway through 2022.
“A lot of p꧙eople like to let us know about it,” Haley Cavinder told The Post in June about what they hear from the haters of their social media prowess. “But we’ll see them on t🦋he court.”
“People forget that before COVID happened,ꦿ and before we blew up on TikTok, we were just basketball players trying to ꦯget a college scholarship together and achieve our goals.
“Basketball has always been the main thing.”
On Monday, Miami stunned no. 1 seed Indiana in Bloom꧙ington to reach the Sweet 16, whe✅re they play at Villanova on Friday afternoon.
In the final minute, Haley Cavinder nailed two clutch free throws — and shushed the Indiana crowd.
“The ‘stick to Tik Tok’ chants go crazy,” the twins wrote on TikTok. “Sweet 16 us.”
