INDIANAPOLIS — Tuesday night’s game against No. 22 Creighton will be the last time this season Sean McDermott’s mother could see him play basketball in Hinkle Fieldhouse. But Kim McDermott is awaiting Selection Sunday for 15th-ranked Butler's NCAA tournament destination.
“My hope is that it’s close enough that it’s feasible for me to go,” she said.
Considering she has been working, coaching and traveling during a 3-month-long cancer fight, there is every chance she will be cheering the Bulldogs and her son during March Madness.
Kim is scheduled to undergo surgery Thursday for thymoma, a rare condition afflicting 1 in 1.