Admission is free, doors open at 5, game tips at 6. This Thursday Gary Williams hosts star-studded cast for benefit basketball game. Admission is free, doors open at 5, game tips at 6. Gary Williams looks ahead to Thursday's Celebrity Hoops Classic at Cole Field House where he shares the coaching sidelines with noted sports journalist John Feinstein.
Admission is free.
Doors open at 5 p.m. Tipoff is set for 6. Williams, who has guided the Terps to a school-record seven consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances, will coach a team of national and local celebrities against a team coached by nationally acclaimed author, John Feinstein. In addition, former Terp football great Boomer Esiason, former Washington Bullets Phil Chenier and Kevin Grevey and Johnny Holliday, the voice of the Terps will also donate their time to playing in the event. Following the game, there will be a cocktail reception and dinner honoring Paul Whetsell, president of Meristar Hotels and Resorts. Whetsell will be presented with the Alma and Alfred Hitchcock Cystic Fibrosis Foundation Award by Pat Hitchcock O'Connell, who has a grandchild afflicted with cystic fibrosis.