The Farm :

Marketing is the Love 💘 of my Life, especially in my later years and everything that Stanford University did today was designed to enhance the two hours spent inside their Maples 🍁 Pavillion. Wow, did it work !!

The Band was highly entertaining, very colorful and not a single ounce of negativity directed at the visiting fans or players !!!

One of the two giveaway items today was a Stanford University Cardinal rally towel.

The court itself will forever be named in the honor of Coach Tara Vandervere, number two on the All-Time Wins list in Men’s / Women’s College Basketball 🏀.

The crowd was both knowledgeable and loud which was impressive 10 fold when you factor in the San Francisco 49ers were beating the Philadelphia Eagles at the same time. The 49ers play their home games a stones throw from The Farm 🚜

They had a bonus offer from a local restaurant for a free Cheeseburger 🍔 if Duke missed consecutive free throws in the second half and thankfully the home fans went home hungry….

The Cal- 🚆train dropped us off two miles from the Gym which created a beautiful hike 🚶‍♂️ across the gorgeous Campus !

The day was highlighted by spending it with the Love 💘 of my Life and watching  👀 a well played D1 College Basketball game. The fact that it was Kira Lawson and her Lady Blue Devils just iced the cake 🎂

The next stop ✋ on the picture perfect day was a great dinner 🍽 at the Blue Line Pizza in Burlingame

Tomorrow morning 🌄 we will head back  to St.George by way of Los Angeles and will turn our Basketball attention to the young Ladies who play for Howard Mayo as the Lady Cavaliers host Cave Spring High School 🏫 on The Hill…

The Hill, the Fort, the Farm, the Swamp, Death Valley and for the Smoot Family we will add the Horseshoe. Michigan has The Big House and Duke plays in the Bull City. See, Marketing is FUN!!!