March 28, 2025

Marian to host basketball game between Gibault and Resource Treatment Center

By Sean Gallagher

In tournament time in high school basketball in Indiana, it’s not unusual for games to draw thousands of spectators. That’s a big part of what “Hoosier Hysteria” is all about.

But not for the teenage boys who fill the roster of the team for Gibault Children’s Services in Terre Haute, a ministry founded by the Knights of Columbus in 1921. For more than a century, Gibault has helped children suffering from mental illness, developmental disabilities and difficult family situations.

At 7 p.m. on April 11, though, the team will get a chance to play on a big stage in the basketball arena at Marian University’s Physical Education Center, 3200 Cold Spring Road in Indianapolis. Gibault will go up against a team that night from Resource Treatment Center in Indianapolis.

Tickets for the game are $10. Proceeds from the game will support both Gibault and Resource Treatment Center.

Giving the event more of a big game feel will be Marian’s cheerleading squad and DJ B-Swift, the in-house emcee at Indiana Pacers basketball games.

A slam dunk contest at halftime will feature current Indiana Mr. Football Mark Zackary, a senior at Ben Davis High School in Indianapolis who has committed to play football next fall at the University of Notre Dame.

While Keenan Haucke of the Knights of Columbus Council 12387 in Carmel, Ind., which is sponsoring the game, sees the game as a good way of raising funds for Gibault, he is looking forward more to the experience it will give to the members of its basketball team who have often experienced many hardships in their young lives.

“If the kids go out on that floor and there are 2,000 people cheering them on, it will be the best night of their lives,” he said.
 

(To purchase tickets for the basketball game between Gibault Children Services and Resource Treatment Center at 7 p.m. on April 11 at Marian University, go to cutt.ly/GibaultGame.) †

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