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INDIANAPOLIS – Two students from Indiana schools will have a chance to play three-on-three basketball with presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
High school students who registered 20 people to vote and university students who signed up 30 new voters for Indiana’s May 6 primary were eligible to be chosen for the game.
Obama’s campaign announced Monday that Marion High School junior Blake Hancock and Indiana University-Kokomo freshman Kory McKay have been chosen to play. Hancock will select two friends to match up against Obama, McKay and one other person. The date of the game has not been decided.
Thirty-eight other students from around the state who helped in the Obama campaign’s voter registration effort will also be invited to meet the Democratic senator before the game. The campaign said Indiana was chosen because of its rich basketball tradition.
Obama was a member of Hawaii’s championship high school basketball team in 1979. A recent YouTube video clip shows him casually sinking a three-point shot at a school gym in South Carolina during a visit to promote his education policies.
Obama’s campaign staff said the game would likely be played according to standard three-on-three rules, in which the first team to reach 11 wins.
Obama is battling Hillary Rodham Clinton for the state’s 72 electoral votes that are still needed to sew up the Democratic nomination for president.
