NCAA allows school to move up opener, allows player battling inoperable cancer to play

As reported by Fox Sports, a college basketball player with an inoperable brain tumor who has been told she has weeks left to live will get her dying wish, thanks in part to the NCAA, which allowed Mount St. Joseph's University to reschedule its season opener to allow freshman forward Lauren Hill to play.
Hill, a standout at Lawrenceburg (Ind.) High School, originally committed to play for Mount St. Joseph's — located about 30 minutes east of Lawrenceburg, in Cincinnati —€” on her 18th birthday, Oct. 1 of last year. Less than two months later, on Nov. 20, 2013, Hill was diagnosed with diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, a cancerous tumor in her brain stem with a survival rate of zero percent.
Doctors initially gave Hill a best-case estimate of two years to live, but after an MRI last month, Lauren learned that her tumor had grown and that she probably wouldn't make it to the end of the year.

"I'm not scared of leaving, because I won't be here," Hill told WKRC Local 12 in Cincinnati. "But the people I worry about are the people I'm leaving behind. . . . I never gave up for a second, even when they told me that I had a terminal diagnosis. I never for a second thought about sitting down and not living life anymore."

Hiram agreed to reschedule the game to play at Mount St. Joseph's on Nov. 2, and the NCAA made the obvious move and granted the schools an exception to make the rescheduled date and location official. If all goes well, Hill will have a chance to put on her No. 22 jersey and take the floor one last time then.