Marnelle Garraud's Thanksgiving weekend last year wasn't like anyone else she knew. The rest of the world was trying to figure out how to manage having turkey dinner during a pandemic, but the Lynn, Massachusetts native was on the court on the Wednesday before the holiday, warming up for her first game of the 2020-2021 season against New Hampshire.
Games before Thanksgiving typically aren't the best attended when people are trying to either hit the road or catch a flight, but an eerie feeling swept through Conte Forum as she warmed up. Nobody was in the stands, the benches were spread out, and the sound system in the arena was testing sound levels for artificial crowd noise that would, to an extent, supplant the lack of people supporting her Boston College Eagles.