Ohio Wesleyan to Host 8th Annual Bishop Classic/Hoops for Hope Tournament
The Ohio Wesleyan women’s basketball team will host its eighth annual Bishop Classic/Hoops for Hope Tournament on Dec. 30-31. Admission is free, but contributions will be accepted to support breast cancer research. (Photo by Jane Suttmeier ’15)
DELAWARE, OHIO — The eighth annual Bishop Classic/Hoops for Hope women’s basketball tournament to raise money for breast cancer awareness, education, and research will be held Dec. 30 and Dec. 31 at Ohio Wesleyan University’s Branch Rickey Arena, 105 S. Sandusky St., Delaware.
The event will tip off at 6 p.m. Dec. 30, when the Battling Bishops take on the Franklin College Grizzlies of Franklin, Indiana. It will continue at 8 p.m., when the Hope College Flying Dutch of Holland, Michigan, take on the York College Spartans of York, Pennsylvania.
On Dec. 31, the tournament will feature Franklin vs. York at 1 p.m., followed by the Bishops vs. Hope at 3 p.m. Hope currently is ranked No. 14 in D3hoops.com’s weekly poll.
Admission to all Hoops for Hope tournament games is free, but monetary contributions will be accepted to benefit the Kay Yow/WBCA Cancer Fund®, which supports scientific research for women’s cancers. The fund operates in partnership with the V Foundation for Cancer Research. To date, the Ohio Wesleyan annual tournament has raised more than $5,000 for cancer research.
Ohio Wesleyan’s games are scheduled to be streamed live online at https://www.owu.edu/about/follow-owu/stream-owu/. The two-day tournament is sponsored by Amato’s Woodfired Pizza, 8 S. Sandusky St., Delaware.
For more Battling Bishop athletics information, visit www.battlingbishops.com.
Founded in 1842, Ohio Wesleyan University is one of the nation’s premier liberal arts universities. Located in Delaware, Ohio, the private university offers 86 undergraduate majors and competes in 23 NCAA Division III varsity sports. Ohio Wesleyan combines a challenging, internationally focused curriculum with off-campus learning and leadership opportunities to connect classroom theory with real-world experience. OWU’s 1,750 students represent 46 U.S. states and territories and 43 countries. Ohio Wesleyan is featured in the book “Colleges That Change Lives,” listed on the latest President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll with Distinction, and included in the U.S. News & World Report and Princeton Review “best colleges” lists. Learn more at www.owu.edu.