GREENEVILLE, Tenn. — The Tusculum University men’s basketball team will host the second annual Jack Kilday Education Game this Tuesday morning (Dec. 2) when the Pioneers face The Crown College of Knoxville at Pioneer Arena. Special tip-off time is set for 11 a.m.
This is Tusculum’s annual game where the Pioneers invite area elementary school children to be their guests for a morning full of fun, games and college basketball.
Area schools scheduled to attend include: Doak Elementary, Tusculum View Elementary, Baileyton Elementary, Highland Elementary, South Greene Middle School, West Greene Middle School and Chuckey-Doak Middle School.
There will be face painting and activities prior to tip-off. There will also be in-game and halftime contests for the kids.
Fans are asked to allow for extra time for travel to the game as parking may be limited.
The event is named in memory of Jack Kilday who passed away in 2024. Kilday was an outstanding basketball and baseball student-athlete at Tusculum from 1955-1957.
The 1957 Tusculum graduate was a longtime educator, coach and administrator in the Greene County School System. He is remembered as a fiercely competitive girls’ and boys’ basketball coach at Chuckey-Doak, North Greene, Ottway, and Doak Elementary Schools. Following his 25 years of service teaching and coaching, he continued his career in supervisory roles as assistant principal and principal of Chuckey-Doak High School.
Kilday was inducted to the Tusculum Sports Hall of Fame in 1989 and later was the recipient of the University’s Sports Benefactor Award. He was also inducted as a Chuckey-Doak High School Knight of Legend.
Tusculum is 3-3 overall including Saturday’s thrilling 70-68 last-second win over Coker University.
Listen to the game from 95.5FM The Jewel beginning at 10:45am.
