Texas-DePaul ladies’s hoops exhibition to help Uvalde faculty

AUSTIN, Texas — No. 3 Texas will host DePaul in a preseason exhibition recreation Sunday with all ticket gross sales going to assist the town of Uvalde construct a brand new faculty after the Could taking pictures at Robb Elementary the place a gunman killed 19 college students and two academics.

The NCAA permits colleges to schedule public exhibition video games if they’re used to help a charity occasion for social justice points or to help restoration efforts from a catastrophic occasion.

“Typically you are feeling helpless wanting to assist any person,” Texas coach Vic Schaefer stated. “I felt like this is perhaps a chance for us as a college, as an athletic division and my program, to essentially attain out.”

Schaefer has pledged to donate $1,000 for each 1,000 followers who attend, and he would love not less than 10,000 tickets bought. The cash raised will go to the Uvalde CISD Shifting Ahead Basis.

“I am actually begging and pleading for our group to come back out, to do as a lot as we will to be part of serving to them rebuild and heal,” stated Schaefer, a Texan who famous as of Wednesday there have been 3,000 tickets bought.

The sport will likely be televised on the Longhorn Community.

“It’s for trigger and it is at all times particular to have the ability to assist out like this, particularly with the tragic occasion that occurred,” stated Texas guard Sonya Morris, who transferred from DePaul after final season. “We wish to have a whole lot of followers come out and assist us make an affect and unfold consciousness.”

Robb Elementary is completely closed and has been slated to be demolished. Uvalde officers determined that college students and households wouldn’t return to the positioning of one of many worst mass shootings in U.S. historical past.

Schaefer stated he considered an exhibition whereas he attending a basketball occasion in Chicago this summer season and approached DePaul coach Doug Bruno in regards to the thought. Bruno shortly accepted, saying he was honored Schaefer invited his staff.

“Sadly, the Uvalde tragedy may have occurred wherever,” Bruno stated. “As residents of the best nation on this planet, we have now an obligation to work to finish all violence, together with gun violence.”