Last modified: Tuesday, March 19, 2013
Hoosier Nation well represented in Dayton, Ohio, as IU begins NCAA tourney action
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 19, 2013
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. -- When the Indiana University men's basketball team heads to Dayton, Ohio, this week to begin its pursuit of a sixth NCAA tournament title, its members will have the backing of a significant alumni base in Dayton and the Greater Cincinnati area.
More than 18,000 Hoosier alums currently reside in Dayton and Greater Cincinnati, which includes counties in Indiana, Kentucky and Ohio. They're being counted on to "show their stripes," along with Hoosiers who will make the 139-mile trip from Bloomington, Ind., to the University of Dayton Arena for IU's second-round tournament contest Friday, March 22, against the winner of Wednesday night's game between Long Island University Brooklyn and James Madison University.
IU has 2,109 alumni living in Dayton and 16,576 alumni living in Greater Cincinnati. They are among 570,000 living IU alums who represent the third-largest alumni base in the nation and will be able to follow their Hoosiers throughout the tournament at a special website, showyourstripes.indiana.edu, hosted by the IU Alumni Association.
The website includes information about tournament travel packages, tournament gear, tickets, downloadable images for use in social media and alumni game watches around the nation. Additionally, local residents and visitors to Dayton will also be able to join fellow fans at Flanagan's Pub, which will serve as the headquarters for pregame pep rallies, game watches and the Big Red Warm-Up starting three hours before each IU tip-off.
While the basketball team looks to showcase the skills that earned it a No. 1 seed, Hoosier alums in Dayton and Greater Cincinnati continue to make considerable contributions within their communities. The roster of notable IU alumni in those areas includes:
- Laura and Paul Brunner, CEOs of the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority and Tire Discounters, respectively. Both graduated from the IU Kelley School of Business.
- Jerome Conley, assistant dean and university librarian, Miami University of Ohio, former mayor of Oxford, Ohio, and graduate of the School of Library and Information Science.
- Miriam "Mimi" and Ted Morris. Mimi is assistant director at the Dayton and Montgomery County Public Library. Ted is a former research analyst at the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Both graduated from the School of Library and Information Science.
- Marc Pritchard, global marketing and brand building officer, Proctor & Gamble, graduate of the Kelley School of Business.
- Mark and Rosemary Schlachter. Mark is a well-known author, broadcaster, writer and photographer and graduate of the School of Library and Information Science. He is based out of his native Cincinnati, where he lives with his wife, Rosemary, who earned her master's degree from IU in English.
- Nancy Swanson, vice president at Proctor & Gamble, graduate of the School of Journalism.
- Carolyn Washburn, editor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, graduate of the School of Journalism.
These and other IU alumni continue to burnish the reputation of a university that once again saw several of its schools receive high marks from U.S. News and World Report in its recently released annual Best Graduate School rankings and boasts a strong tradition of both athletic and academic excellence. To this end, IU is the only university in the country to place two players on the 2012-13 Capital One Academic All-America basketball team this season. Sophomore Cody Zeller, of Washington, Ind., was named a First Team Academic All-American and senior Jordan Hulls, of Bloomington, Ind., was named a Third Team Academic All-American. They are the 10th and 11th players in program history to earn the honor and the first since Luke Recker received the distinction in 1999.
