2014 Hiram vs. Mount St. Joseph women's basketball game
| 2014 Hiram vs. Mount St. Joseph Play for 22 |
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| Date | November 2, 2014 | ||||||||||||
| Arena | Cintas Center | ||||||||||||
| Location | Cincinnati, Ohio | ||||||||||||
| Attendance | 10,250 | ||||||||||||
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| Network | Fox Sports Ohio / Fox College Sports | ||||||||||||
The 2014 Hiram vs. Mount St. Joseph women's basketball game, billed as Play for 22, was the first game of the 2014–15 NCAA basketball regular season. The Division III game between Hiram College and Mount St. Joseph University (MSJ) was originally intended to be played at the Hiram campus in Hiram, Ohio on November 15, 2014. However, the game was moved to November 2 to accommodate Lauren Hill, a Mount St. Joseph freshman who had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and wished to play in one college game before her death. The game was also moved to Cincinnati, initially to the MSJ campus in nearby Delhi Township and ultimately to Cintas Center on the campus of Xavier University.
Lauren Hill (October 1, 1995 – April 10, 2015) had been a star basketball player at Lawrenceburg High School in the Indiana town of the same name, located about 30 miles (48 km) west of Cincinnati. On her 18th birthday in 2013, she committed to play at Mount St. Joseph. However, as she was preparing for her senior season at Lawrenceburg High, she was noticing problems with her game. As she would tell a reporter from WKRC-TV in Cincinnati in late 2014, "I wasn't keeping up with the other girls. My ball handling was sloppy so I just figured I was out of shape." After further problems in the following weeks, she thought that she had suffered a concussion, and her family took her to Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center. On November 20, 2013, less than two months after committing to MSJ, she was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG), a rare type of brain cancer that normally affects children age 5 to 7. The cancer, which grows from the brain stem, is inoperable and is not considered survivable.
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