Hillsdale Basketball Teams to Support WBCA’s "Pink Zone" Program Saturday, Feb. 20

Release information courtesy of Brad Monastiere, Hillsdale College Sports Information Director

Hillsdale, Mich. - For the third year in a row, the Hillsdale College men’s and women’s basketball teams will do their part to help support breast cancer research through the WBCA’s Pink Zone program.

The Charger teams will join the program at their regular season home finale Saturday, Feb. 20 when they host the basketball teams from Michigan Technological University. The women’s game tips off at 1 p.m., with the men’s game to follow at 3 p.m.

The Hillsdale College Student Athlete Advisory Committee has been active at raising funds throughout the community over the past two weeks for the Pink Zone program. SAAC will have T-shirts for sale at both the men’s and women’s games this weekend, and the Charger women’s basketball teams will don pink warm-up T-shirts before their game against No. 4-ranked Michigan Tech.

Both basketball teams will wear pink shoelaces at the games in an eff ort to raise awareness of the Pink Zone program. All proceeds from T-shirt sales at the games will go towards the Pink Zone project.

The WBCA began this program, formerly known as “Th ink Pink,” in 2007, as an initiative to raise awareness of breast cancer throughout college campuses and communities.

In February 2009, the Hillsdale College women’s basketball team wore special pink jerseys as part of the program, and the subsequent auction of those jerseys, raised several hundred dollars for the WBCA’s Pink Zone program