Benefit basketball game on tap

The Rock Chalk Roundball Classic KU alumni basketball game will tip at 7 p.m., June 18, at Free State High. Game organizer Brian Hanni reports more than 30 former Jayhawks will participate. They are being announced one per day on the Rock Chalk Roundball Classic’s Facebook page.

First-year KU football coach David Beaty will play in the basketball all-star game.

Others to play include current San Francisco Dons coach Rex Walters, as well as Cole Aldrich, Mark Randall, Greg Dreiling, Wayne Simien and many more. Tickets are on sale at 23rd Street Brewery, Legends and AAA Topeka. Proceeds go to local families battling cancer.