It’s time for the Sunday Morning 🌄 Brew on a Day that is set to include Flights ✈️, a trio of Basketball 🏀 games and writing ✍ a Gamer for Anthony Barnes and our Cavaliers…

Travis Osborne and his Bible Verse of the Day:

2 Thessalonians 3:3 But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

The four shades 😎 of Basketball 🏀 today will be a nice mix of writing, watching 👀 on line( Furman Women) watching in person ( New Mexico State Men ) and keeping up with from a distance ( Duke Women).

Yesterday at Fort Chiswell, the Junior Varsity Cavaliers edged Narrows during the afternoon and the Varsity team fell 69-65 in the eighth game of the day. I have all of my notes 📝 from the day and later they will get wrapped around the thoughts of Head Coach Anthony Barnes.

For the third time this season, Alyssa Ervin and Furman University (6-6) is set to play a road game inside a SEC Gymnasium as the Paladins travel down to Gainesville to take on the Florida Gators. Depending upon your time zone, tip is set for 2pm Eastern and available to watch on the SEC Network.

At 7:30 am, we begin the trek over to El Paso, Texas in preparation for the Duke University Bowl 🥣 game on New Years Eve against Arizona State University.

This is relevant to the day in that the game story for Carroll County will get written across the two flights ✈️ over this morning.

Kira Lawson and Duke University Women’s Basketball 🏀 team is set to play todsy against an 11-1 Syracuse team up in the Dome. Duke, like Furman, sits at 6-6 and looks to get above .500 on the season but will face an uphill battle

The in-person Basketball 🏀 comes in the form of the Men’s team at New Mexico State at 3pm Mountain ⛰ time. In years past when Duke made it to a Bowl 🥣 game it was a quick get there and get back type of trip.

This year, with the challenges that Medication presents, it will be a five day/ four night loop. That is how Lacruses, New Mexico enters the mix.

Let’s take just a minute to say 👏👏👏 to the University of Virginia (11-3) for winning their 11th football game and a season for the first time in the schools history last night in Jacksonville !!!

https://augustafreepress.com/news/gator-bowl-blog-live-updates-throughout-the-day-from-jacksonville/

As Paul Harvey would say, now you know the rest of the story about Sunday, December 28th !

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…

Gone, but not forgotten, Lady Blue Devils are hosting a 10-2 Jackrabbits team tonight at Cameron Indoor Stadium 💙

If on the East Coast versus the West, we would be at Duke University Women’s Basketball 🏀 with Kira Lawson. Keeping an eye 👁 👀 on them while monitoring four other Carroll County games.

Duke leads 55 – 28 at the break !

Wrapping up a blissful Thanksgiving Day with another Women’s Basketball 🏀 twin bill and appreciative of everyone who took the time to say Happy Thanksgiving 😊 to us !

The Matchups :

South Carolina and Texas playing in the Championship game here in a few minutes. The games are being played in reverse order due to it being Prime Time (8pm on the East Coast).

This duel here could very well be a preview of the National Championship game in late March / Early April !

Dawn and her Gamecocks are a slight favorite and in the night cap, UCLA is a double digit favorite over Duke.

Linda will have her attention divided as her Blue Devils are facing Arkansas in Chicago while Texas – USC is taking place.

Media TO (4:03) 17 -15 UT

Texas 23 -19 after 10 minutes…. great stuff…

Media TO (3:26-2), Texas leads 31-27

Texas 33-29 (Half)

Duke Men leading 41-35 @ Halftime in Chicago.

Media TO (3:57-3), USC has taken the lead, 46-42.

Texas needs a TO, USC leads 50-42 (21-9 this quarter )…

50-46 USC with 10:00 to play ▶️.

6:14 – Dawn calls 📞 a TO, Texas leads by a basket 🧺.

Texas 16-4, from down 8 to up by 4

0:19.6 – USC forces a turnover, have ball down 64-62…

0:00.7 – Texas guard 💂‍♂️ hits a floater, Dawn calls 📞 TO…

7:05 pm PST – Texas wins, 66-64…What a game….

End of 1st – Bruins 30-7 after nailing five 3’s….

Trailing 32-7, Duke goes on an 8-0 run 🏃‍♂️ to make it 32-15 !

UCLA calls 📞 TO at 3:21, leading 34-21. Duke on 14-4 run 🏃‍♂️…

43-25 Halftime score (8:26 local)…

Down 54-35 @ Media TO (4:25)

Final Media TO (4:58), down 24, 73-49

All 5 Bruins are in double figures and the team is flirting with 60% from Deep.

Impressive !!

Down 30 with 1:48 to play, UCLA calls TO to empty their bench.

It’s time for the Thanksgiving Day edition of the Morning 🌄 Brew and today it includes watching 👀 Hoops with a Basketball 🏀 legend!

Morning 🌄 Brew

Travis Osborne with his Bible Verse 🙏 of the Day :

Psalm 100:4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

Howard Mayo with his Motovational Nugget for the Day : This actually comes by way of Marion Harris, proud Father 👨 of one of the Lady Cavaliers mentioned

Today will be the final page in the November to Remember with the Duke University Women’s Basketball 🏀 team. Their calendar month took them / us to Paris, France 🇫🇷, Cameron Indoor Stadium (2), Lynchburg, Virginia ➕ Greenbriar Resort in West Virginia ➕ Tampa, Florida and finally, two games in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Yesterday, during the Texas versus UCLA opener, I realized that we were sitting next to same Basketball Royalty 🏀. Even at 62 years old, it still makes me smile to meet someone who loves the game of Women’s Hoops in the manner that I do.

Denise Curry holds the distinction of being the All-Time scoring leader in the history of UCLA Basketball ! Just over 3,100 points scored for the Bruins, a mark that has her atop the list for the University, Men or Women and by a wide margin.

Later today our Blue Devils will face her Bruins in the night 🌙 cap of the two day event. When Curry isn’t watching the Lady Bruins, she’s helping Coach at Long Beach State University. Neat, Neat Lady 👩 to say the least and I’m Thankful to have shared a conversation about a sport that is so relevant to both of us.

Being Thankful is the specialty of the Day and I will wrap this up by wishing 🙏 everyone can spend today with someone who they 💘.

Many will watch football 🏈🏈🏈 of and on today but for Linda and I, we will be soaking up some more Womens Basketball 🏀.

Have yourself a Blessed Thanksgiving Day !!!