Cedar City, Utah – The Thunderbirds mens basketball 🏀 team returns to action today (hopefully) at 5pm MST versus Northern Arizona which is located in picturesque Flagstaff. Cedar City is a beautiful place that sits roughly an even mile in the air and goes by the title Festival City, USA. This title comes from the large number of Annual events that take place in the area which range from theater to farming.

The Big Sky conference runs on what I call flip schedules as the same two schools will be playing a Women’s game today down in Flagstaff. SUU was to have played at home on Thursday but those games were rescheduled due to Covid concerns within the visiting team.

Dixie State University is the home of the Trailblazers located in beautiful St. George, Utah and the folks in the Athletic Department have been more than a little busy.

DSU started out as a Junior College before making the move up to Division 2 and are now in the middle of the Four Year transition period to become a full fledged member of D1. The folks in charge of the Western Athletic Conference invited the school to join the league in all sports except Football as the Trailblazers will remain as an Independent member of the FCS on the gridiron 🏈.

Tonight’s Men’s Hoops game found the Abilene Christian University Wildcats in the visitors lockeroom. A quick look at the over/under line (for the purpose of expectation of play ) had set up some high hopes at 150.

That number of 150 has one thinking about two teams playing the game at an up and down pace but that simply wasn’t the case. Both teams ran a very patient half court offense while playing aggressive man to man defense. For the better part of the game the teams breaking 100 total points was in serious doubt but eventually DSU settled into an offensive groove and played the second half to a 33-33 tie. The crowd was listed at 917 for the 64-50 decision and it should be noted thar while the crowd was small in size the Marketing folks kept them entertained throughout the evening!