Game #3 of 3 takes us to Cedar City, Utah and the campus of Southern Utah University for a showdown between the Thunderbirds and the Mavericks of Texas – Arlington!

Western Athletic Conference opener for both teams and the visitors are slight favorites but the cool story here is the color commentator for the TV 📺 broadcast is clearly a fellow Seahawks fan and is watching the game while announcing this one! Classic stuff…

More to follow later….

UT-A needs a TO at 8:55, SUU leads 24-12!

Media TO at 7:38, T-Birds 🐦 lead 26 -18

One of the Mavericks missed both free throws so we just won 🏆 Free Cheese 🧀 Curds from Culver’s !!!!!

Media TO at 3:59, T-Birds 🐦 lead 32-28. McCreary hit four straight 3-pointers for the Mavericks…

Exciting first 20 minutes in the books 📚! Thunderbirds leading 41 -37

Seattle 10, San Francisco 3

Bonus Nugget from The Hill :

Quick ?????, What’s a Cheese 🧀 Curd ?

7:35 – Start 2nd half….

McCreary hits 2 more to spark a blistering 15 – 2 run 🏃‍♂️ for the visitors.

On a light hearted note 📝, we made the Jumbotron twice, including the Kiss 💋 Cam!

Media TO at 15:35, UT-A 52-43

Media Timeout at 11:41, down 63 – 52

Jumbo #3 – Muscle Cam….

Media TO at 7 :41

71-61, McCreary has 31 points and 7 rebounds….

End of 3rd quarter, Seahawks 10-3 and in the red zone…

Thunderbirds within 6 at 73 -67, Seahawks push lead to 13 – 3…

Final Media TO at 3:46, down 76 -71…

84 -77 @ 0:14.1, McCreary with 37

McCreary with 39 points and 7 rebounds = Electric

Saved by the Bell 🔔: The Cavalier College Years features Elijah Cox and his Randolph College Wildcats playing down in Raleigh, North Carolina !

Randolph College returns from a long break for the Holidays with a contest at William Peace University. The Wildcats last played back on December 16th against Greensboro College.

Today’s game is not on FloCollege but is available on YouTube. After today the team will move into ODAC play for the final 14 contests of the season.

Elijah Cox hit an early 3-pointer and currently has 3 points and two rebounds with 4:13 remaining in the first half. The Wildcats lead 30 -25 as they look to end non- conference play on a positive note.

We will keep up with the game and invite folks to check back and see how it ended.

Wildcats closed out the first half in a big way and lead 44 – 32 at the break. Cox has two fouls which limited our Cavalier to 14 of 20 minutes played in the opening half.

Wildcats win 82 – 72 !!!

Cox played 32/40 minutes and finished up with 11 points and 3 rebounds !

Well Done Sir, Well Done 👏

Wednesday 1/7 at Bridgewater is the next game for Elijah and the Wildcats.

We have a Captains Meeting taking place at The Fort ! Let’s follow some Basketball 🏀 X 7…Cavs Varsity wins 80 47

Basketball 🏀 Night 🌙 is set to begin and we will track five separate games from now until the end of the evening….

End of 1st, Cavaliers trail 17 – 12..

Carroll County trailed 16 – 4 at 2:07 of the 1st quarter, now lead 30 – 20 !!!

Using my fingers and toes to do the math…..

4 -16

34-22

A monster 👹 Run 🏃‍♂️ of 30 -6 over 10 minutes of action 🎬 !!!

Cavaliers advance to the Consolation bracket Finals !

This one will be a fun write ✍ later !!!

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We mentioned that we would be keeping up with seven games and Bill Gallimore has provided us with the second Final score.

Carroll County JV Boys 👦 fell short in their Semi-final tilt with Radford, 57-31 earlier today. Ryan Phillips and his team will play in the 3rd place game tomorrow.

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Games 3,4 and 5 are each a Women’s College Basketball 🏀 game…

Linda showing off her Jump Ball chops in the New Mexico State University versus the Greyhounds of Eastern New Mexico University

Game #4 on the list shows that Katie Lam and Roanoke College defended their home 🏡 court in their tournament opener and will play for the 👑 tomorrow

End of the 1st quarter at Pan American, Aggies 12, Greyhounds 5… (7:24/5:24pm)

Media timeout at 4:01 (2)

Aggies leading 18 – 11

Halftime score : Aggies, 20 – 16….

Games 6 & 7 are taking place back in Utah as SUU and Utah Tech are playing their I-15 Rivalry games for the first time Tonight…

End of 3rd, Aggies 30, Thunderbirds 28…

Headed to Overtime, knotted up at 38 !

Meanwhile, how tall is the UTEP center from Italy 🇮🇹 ! Soooooooooo tall (6’3), that her University of the Southwest counterpart didn’t even try to contest the opening jump. First time I’ve ever seen that…

Just now heard from Coach Anthony Barnes so the actual writing ✍ will begin later tonight !

24 points were scored in the 5:00 OT after just 76 dropped in 40 minutes….

End of 1st quarter in El Paso and the Lady 👩 Miners lead 27 – 9

What do you do when you cross paths with a Big Fella carrying a Pickaxe ????

77 – 33, after the 3rd quarter…

This angle is to capture the Mountain ⛰ on the court….

Final Media TO at 4:56, Miners 95 – 35

The Thunderbirds take the I-15 rivalry game at home 🏡

That’s a Wrap !!!!

Our Monday Morning 🌄 Brew is focused on Day #2 of 3 at The Fort as the Boys head back up US-52 later today !Bonus Hoops at the Women’s College level…

Morning 🌄 Brew

Howard Mayo with his Motovational Nugget for the Day :

Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day :

Psalm 147:5 Great is our Lord, and of great power: his understanding is infinite.

At 5pm Mountain ⛰ Time we will complete a rather rare Hat 👒 Trick by watching 👀 the Aggies of New Mexico State University Women’s Basketball 🏀 team in person for a third time this season and in a third different venue.

Last month the team played at Southern Utah University and Utah Tech in the same week. No connection to the team, just kinda random..

Today we have another installment in the Saved by the Bell 🔔: The Cavalier College Years as Katie Lam and Roanoke College play day one of their two day Holiday tournament !

If the first four games of the Day don’t quench the thirst for Hoops, Game five would take place just across the State Line as the UTEP Women play inside of the historic Gymnasium named after Don Haskins.

Coach Haskins won a pretty significant game once upon a time….

Junior Varsity Basketball 🏀

Varsity Basketball 🏀

Cavalier College Basketball 🏀

Lascruses, New Mexico Basketball 🏀

University of Texas – El Paso Basketball 🏀

I think we have a theme detected !

Have yourself a Blessed Day 🙌

Let’s call 📞 this one the story about Anthony Barnes, Basketball 🏀 Moms, Marion Harris and what one does when all four local College teams are unavailable……

When both teams from Utah Tech and Southern Utah University are all off or away, you sneak further into the desert 🏜 for your basketball 🏀 action 🎬.

1pm PST Tip with the Running Rebels Men playing in the big part of the building at 4pm.

Head Coach Anthony Barnes just shared his thoughts on the game last night and here in a bit I will get started on the game story for him. Being that this one is as close to Christmas 🎄 as it is, this gamer will come with a OneofUs.Care twist.

Yesterday, it was one of the players Mothers 👩 that was helping me gather information and that triggered a thought process for me. Beginning with the starting lineup, I realized that I had experienced the privilege of meeting each of the Mothers 👩 involved.

Once that was in my brain 🧠, there was no turning back. So, where I would normally type Blake Reed it will say Sam’s Boy, Isaiah Easter = Vickie’s Boy, etc, etc, etc…. Nothing but neat Ladies across the board.

How does Marion Harris tie 👔 into all ? Mr Harris is set to be our eyes 👀 and ears back on The Hill as both the Junior Varsity and Varsity Girls are set to host games in our Christmas event!!

New Mexico (8-2) scored the first six points of the game before UNLV (5-5) went on a 28 – 4 run 🏃‍♂️….Momentum is real, especially in Basketball 🏀… End of 1st, 31 – 13

Late in the 3rd quarter over in Nashville, Kira Lawson and the Lady Blue Devils are closing in on a 6th victory.

54 – 32, Rebels at the break…

74 – 53 after 3…New Mexico swished a 3-pointer from beyond half court to end the third but it was ruled too late.

Now we are roughly 100 feet away for the Men’s Basketball game between UNLV and Fresno State. Fun Fact being Fresno State us the closet University to my hometown of Lemoore, California !

2 more free T-shirts 👕 and 2 noise makers….

Kevin DeHaven and Marion Harris are both in the Gyms on The Hill and we will create a separate post 📫 for Girls Basketball 🏀 !!

FresnoState 41, UNLV 39 at the break…