Inaugural Hoops4ALS Men’s Basketball Games Between Pitt & Duke to Be Held in January
1/7/2024 1:18:00 PM | Men's Basketball
- The ACC Matchups Will Serve as the First Hoops4ALS Initiative to Promote Awareness of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and support groundbreaking research.
- Funds raised During Game Will Support ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI), University of Pittsburgh's MDA-ALS Center and Duke University's ALS Clinic.
PITTSBURGH -- The Pitt and Duke Men's Basketball programs have partnered to announce the inaugural "Hoops4ALS" games, which will be played Jan. 9 (Petersen Events Center) and Jan. 20 (Cameron Indoor Stadium). Hoops4ALS is a group dedicated to uniting basketball coaches, players, and fans to raise awareness for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) — also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease — and promote research and advocacy to help those dealing with this fatal disease and to support those working to find a cure.
Tickets for the Jan. 9 matchup in Pittsburgh are available HERE and through the Panthers Ticket Office 800-643-7488.
The Hoops4ALS committee, made up of Pitt head coach Jeff Capel III, Tom Haberstroh, P.J. Murphy, Chuck Haberstroh, Kate Fagan, Adam Wilson, Gary Godfrey and Marc J. Spears, have partnered with the ALS Therapy Development Institute (ALS TDI) to support their work to discover and develop effective ALS treatments. As the world's foremost discovery lab focused solely on ALS, ALS TDI collaborates with top researchers from around the world, including those at Duke's ALS Clinic and the University of Pittsburgh's ALS-MDA Center.
For each of the Hoops4ALS basketball games, both the Pitt and Duke Men's Basketball teams will wear Hoops4ALS warmup shirts pregame and both coaching staffs, managers and other basketball personnel will wear 'Hoops4ALS' pins. Both venues will feature in-house announcements and scoreboard display with an ALS TDI fundraising appeal, while ALS patients, caregivers and researchers will be recognized on court during a timeout.
In addition to the fundraising initiative, Pitt and Duke men's basketball programs are coming together to honor and pay tribute to those fighting ALS and those we have lost to the disease in the basketball community. In 2017, Jeff Capel Jr., a legendary coach in the basketball community, passed away due to complications related to ALS at the age of 64 while Capel III was an assistant coach at Duke.
THE TREE – The Players' Tribune – Jan. 26, 2017
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