Texas exhibition to help build new Uvalde school

AUSTIN, Texas -- No. 3 Texas volition big DePaul successful a preseason women's hoops accumulation crippled Sunday, with each summons income going to assistance the metropolis of Uvalde physique a caller schoolhouse aft the May shooting astatine Robb Elementary wherever a gunman killed 19 students and 2 teachers.

The NCAA allows schools to docket nationalist accumulation games if they are utilized to enactment a foundation lawsuit for societal justness issues oregon to enactment betterment efforts from a catastrophic event.

"Sometimes you consciousness helpless wanting to assistance somebody," Texas manager Vic Schaefer said. "I felt similar this mightiness beryllium an accidental for america arsenic a university, arsenic an diversion section and my program, to truly scope out."

Schaefer has pledged to donate $1,000 for each 1,000 fans who attend, and helium would similar astatine slightest 10,000 tickets sold. The wealth raised volition spell to the Uvalde CISD Moving Forward Foundation.

"I'm truly begging and pleading for our assemblage to travel out, to bash arsenic overmuch arsenic we tin to beryllium a portion of helping them rebuild and heal," said Schaefer, who noted that arsenic of Wednesday determination were 3,000 tickets sold.

The crippled volition beryllium televised connected the Longhorn Network.

"It is for a bully origin and it's ever peculiar to beryllium capable to assistance retired similar this, particularly with the tragic lawsuit that happened," said Texas defender Sonya Morris, who transferred from DePaul aft past season. "We privation to person a batch of fans travel retired and assistance america marque an interaction and dispersed awareness."

Robb Elementary is permanently closed and has been slated to beryllium demolished. Uvalde officials decided that students and families would not instrumentality to the tract of 1 of the worst wide shootings successful U.S. history.

Schaefer said helium thought astir an accumulation portion attending a hoops lawsuit successful Chicago this summertime and approached DePaul manager Doug Bruno astir the idea. Bruno rapidly accepted, saying helium was honored Schaefer invited his team.

"Unfortunately, the Uvalde calamity could person happened anywhere," Bruno said. "As citizens of the top state successful the world, we person an work to enactment to extremity each violence, including weapon violence."