Student makes pitch for 'white out'

In two "white outs" last season, the IU men's basketball team lost against two top-ranked teams -- the Duke Blue Devils and the Connecticut Huskies -- at Assembly Hall. That didn't stop IU sophomore Don Ueber from pushing Hoosier fans to turn Assembly Hall white when the No. 2 Wisconsin Badgers travel to Bloomington for Wednesday's game. \nShortly after IU's 76-61 victory against Michigan on Saturday, Ueber created an event on Facebook requesting all IU fans wear white shirts to the IU-Wisconsin game. The event received more than 500 confirmed guests Sunday evening. \n"It gives everybody something to do for the game," Ueber said in a phone interview. "It lets the team know it's a big game and we're behind them." \nThe white outs last year were events sponsored by the IU Department of Athletics and the Student Athletics Board. Ueber tried contacting the athletics department, but had not received a reply Sunday evening. \nThe sophomore did get a reply from an official with the IU Varsity Club, who said he would try to encourage alumni to participate in the white out.\nWhat Ueber really wants, though, is an IU win against the Badgers, and he remains undeterred that his Hoosiers are 0-2 in recent white out games.\n"It's something more to fight for, I guess. Kinda like Notre Dame and the green jerseys," he said.