Folks may be witnessing a real changing of the guard.

For 104 years, the most famous thing in little Solsberry, Ind., has been the Yoho General Store.

The current building that has housed it for nearly 80 years has been getting a massive facelift and is about to reopen, but another Yoho operation already is up and running in splendid fashion and has stolen the limelight.

That would be J.T. Yoho.

The Wright State freshman, who said his great, great grandparents started the store, is three games into his college basketball career and already leads the unbeaten Raiders in scoring, field-goal percentage, 3-point percentage and rebounds.

And, by the way, he’s now played 85 minutes in those three games and committed two turnovers.

Friday, the 6-foot-6 forward scored a game-high 15 points to lead Wright state to a 56-44 victory over North Carolina A& T in its home opener at the Nutter Center.

Yoho comes from quite a basketball pedigree. His mom, Sandi, is the second-leading all-time girls scorer at Eastern Greene High School and his cousin Toby had the old Solsberry Gym named after him. Still, the way he’s started his college career has surprised everybody from Raiders coach Billy Donlon to his old high school coach Andy Igel to J.T. himself.

“To be honest, I’m even a little surprised at how I’m playing,” Yoho admitted. “My teammates are finding me and I’ve been able to hit the shot.”

He had a lot of experience at that; he’s Eastern Greene’s second all-time leading boys scorer with 1,504 points. But the transition from preps to the college game often starts out bumpy.

“If I told you I wasn’t surprised I’d be lying,” Donlon said. “He’s playing tremendously well. I knew he had a good basketball I.Q., but I didn’t know he’d show this kind of gumption and emotional even keel right off the bat.

“I know everybody will focus on his shooting (he’s averaging 15.3 points per game), but he’s playing defense. If he wasn’t, he’d be fouling. And best of all, in the first two games he played 52 minutes without a turnover. Tonight he had just two and that’s over 85 minutes now.”

And the first turnover came on an offensive charge.

Solsberry is 20 minutes southwest of Bloomington and Yoho, as you might guess, grew up a huge Indiana Hoosiers and Bobby Knight fan.

“Basketball is pivotal in that area,” said Donlon. “They’re talking about it in the spring down there, in the fall, all 12 months of the year. It’s like high school football in Florida.”

Friday night a couple of dozen family members and friends made the three-hour trip to watch J.T.

“I’m a little surprised at how well he’s doing, but not that he’s calm out there on the floor,” said Igel. “That’s the way he’s always played. He started all four years for me in high school.”

Sandi Yoho, who is the middle school’s athletic director and was a coach, said some of the savvy comes from her son beginning his career as a point guard: “He started as a freshman … in Indiana.”

Back in Solsberry – population 35, claimed Yoho’s dad, Jay – the town has just the general store, a post office and a fire station.

“We had a stop light, but then I-69 came through and we lost that,” Yoho said

That, too, may be changing.

Now J.T. Yoho is making everybody stop and look.