The seventh annual Go Pink with the Dragons basketball game will be on Friday, Feb. 7 when MSUM hosts St. Cloud State. Throughout the week there will be a number of events taking place around campus. Students will have the opportunity to sign up to be bone marrow donors during the week. There will be a table in the CMU on Tuesday from 12-2 p.m., Wednesday 10:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m.,
Thursday 5-9 p.m. in the CMU Ballroom and 9-11 in Nemzek Hall and Friday 5-9 p.m. in Nemzek Hall.
On Thursday there will be a Sanford Health Educational Presentation called Bone Marrow Transplant 101 that will have a leukemia survivor, a bone marrow donor, a doctor from Sanford Health and a bone marrow donor and MSUM professor.
On Friday, the first 150 people at the basketball games will receive a free pink pompom and the F-M Acro Lites and Acro II teams will perform at halftime of the men’s and women’s games.
A bake sale will be held at the basketball games on Saturday in Nemzek 113. All proceeds will go to the Go Pink scholarship fund.
The basketball games on Friday will be televised on WDAY 6.3 and on Midcontinent channel 596.
The women will also wear pink jerseys during the game on Friday. At halftime the Go Pink scholarships will be awarded.
Go Pink T-shirts will be sold for $10 at the MSUM bookstore, career center, athletic department and bone marrow registry varying times throughout the week.
Go Pink news courtesy of Dragon Athletics