Tigers affected by shootings
LaVonte Young
Senipr Sports Reporter
Issue date: 2/18/08 Section: Sports
After the tragic shootings that took place on the campus of Northern Illinois , the school has announced that they will cancel athletic events from Feb 15- 24 for a week
of healing.
These events will cancel the Tigers Bracket Buster game against the NIU Huskies which was scheduled for Sunday Feb 24 at 1pm. All 25 scheduled sporting events have been cancelled.
"In a time like this basketball is not important,"said junior guard Bruce Price. "A basketball game can be replaced but a people lives can not". "Our prayers go out to the families of the victims, the university and everybody involved".
This would have been the fourth match up between the Huskies and the Tigers . The Tigers lead the series 2-1. NIU head coach Ricardo Patton was the assistant coach for the Tigers when they won back to back titles Ohio Valley Conference title in 1992-93 and 1994-94.
"I'm sorry that these senseless casualties and senseless actions took place on that college campus" said Head Coach Cy Alexander. "(Head)Coach Patton is a close friend of mine and I am happy that his family is safe".
With the cancelation of the game the Tigers will have an unusually long layoff before getting back to action. Big Blue will have a ten day layoff in between games from Monday Feb 18 game against Austin Peay , to Feb 28 game at Morehead State.
"This is an unusual layoff this part of the season,"said Alexander. This lay off will give us time to get a lot of practice in and for our players to get caught up in the class room.•
of healing.
These events will cancel the Tigers Bracket Buster game against the NIU Huskies which was scheduled for Sunday Feb 24 at 1pm. All 25 scheduled sporting events have been cancelled.
"In a time like this basketball is not important,"said junior guard Bruce Price. "A basketball game can be replaced but a people lives can not". "Our prayers go out to the families of the victims, the university and everybody involved".
This would have been the fourth match up between the Huskies and the Tigers . The Tigers lead the series 2-1. NIU head coach Ricardo Patton was the assistant coach for the Tigers when they won back to back titles Ohio Valley Conference title in 1992-93 and 1994-94.
"I'm sorry that these senseless casualties and senseless actions took place on that college campus" said Head Coach Cy Alexander. "(Head)Coach Patton is a close friend of mine and I am happy that his family is safe".
With the cancelation of the game the Tigers will have an unusually long layoff before getting back to action. Big Blue will have a ten day layoff in between games from Monday Feb 18 game against Austin Peay , to Feb 28 game at Morehead State.
"This is an unusual layoff this part of the season,"said Alexander. This lay off will give us time to get a lot of practice in and for our players to get caught up in the class room.•
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