Just about 24 hours after a scare – South Carolina State basketball player Tyvoris Solomon's collapse during a game against North Carolina State University at PNC Arena – the player was smiling, grateful and reminding others about the importance of CPR training.

The game between the Bulldogs and the Wolfpack was delayed several minutes as paramedics worked desperately to revive the senior guard, who said nothing like Saturday's incident has ever happened to him before.

Solomon and his family spoke to WRAL News from the UNC Rex hospital room where he is still recovering from his harrowing ordeal.

“I was talking to one of my teammates on the bench about an error he made defensively when one of my other teammates asked if I was alright. From there, I remember putting my head in my hands, and from there, I don’t remember,” Solomon said.

The next thing he recalls, Solomon was being wheeled towards the ambulance.

Around the same time, his mother, Delores Speights, got a phone call from his coach – the call no parent ever wants to get. She immediately sped towards Raleigh.

"Just to see his face, that gave me the comfort of knowing that there is a God and anything is possible," she said.

Solomon's survival is a credit to the quick action of Wake County EMS and S.C. State Athletic Trainer Tyler Long.

"I told him I love him," Speights said. "He told me he was just doing his job.”

Solomon added his gratitude and his understanding of the importance of CPR education.

He knows that although Saturday will be remembered as a day when things went wrong for him, he was at the right place, at the right time, with the right people.

“I am so thankful that they were in the right place at the right time, (and) did not take a second thought of doing what it took to save my child," Speights said.

Solomon is surrounded in his hospital room by well wishes, and he welcomed visitors on Sunday, some whom he had never met before.

“Dear Ty Solomon, I hope you feel better, I love basketball and I know you love it too. Love, Oliver," one card reads.

“I’m sorry you got sick at the game yesterday. I am very happy that you’re okay. I hope I can watch you play basketball again with your team,” another says.

Speights said it's all part of the role of a role model and college basketball player.

“Kids that don’t even know him, that are looking up to him, I’m just proud to say he’s my son,” she said.