Feb. 13, 2008

Durham, NC - North Carolina Central University will participate in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) 2008 "Think Pink" Initiative, a nation-wide effort by the WBCA to increase breast cancer awareness.

The Lady Eagles will take on the Lady Bears of Livingstone College Saturday, February 16, at the McLendon-McDougald Gymnasium. Tip-off is at 2 p.m. The game will feature the Lady Eagles taking the court in pink uniforms that were provided by Russell Athletics.

The week of February 8-17 is the designated week for the WBCA's "Think Pink" initiative with activities going on across the country with more than 600 teams committed to join the fight against Breast Cancer. The WBCA's "Think Pink" initiative is a global, unified effort for the Women's Basketball Coaches Association's (WBCA) nation of coaches to assist in raising breast cancer awareness on the court, across campuses, in communities and beyond.

For more information on the WBCA's "Think Pink" initiative, please visit the WBCA website at www.WBCA.org/thinkpink.asp.

Also this will be senior night as NCCU says goodbye to three senior members of the men's and women's basketball teams: Casey Daniel, Jennifer Hukill and Charles Futrell.