BALDWIN: College freshman, Lauren Hill, was clearly the star of the court Sunday night.</s>BALDWIN: I tell you, this young woman, her name was plastered on posters in the stands. Her number painted on fans' faces. Listen to the cheers. And cheers for her team echoed through the jam-packed basketball arena. Why? Because the 19 year old is playing her first and, most likely, her last college game. Hill is dying from a rare form of brain cancer. And when doctors told her she didn't have much time left, her school asked the NCAA if it could move up its season opener game by two weeks allowing Hill to play. And play she did. She scored the first two points of the game, becoming the first college player to sink a basket in the 2014-2015 season.</s>LAUREN HILL, BASKETBALL PLAYER DYING OF RARE BRAIN CANCER: I don't want it to be my last game and I don't plan on it being my last game and even if I can't play, you know, if I'm in a wheelchair by then or anything that happens, I'm still going to try to be there with my team and be there to support them because they've always been here to support me. And now that more people know about this story and awareness, I'm so happy that people know about it now and that we can get some research going and hopefully find that home run cure for cancer. And even though I'm probably not going to be around to see it, but it's going to help a lot of people. And it's going to help everybody and that's why we need to keep staying with this and not just ending with this game.</s>BALDWIN: My goodness. What strength she has. In fact, legendary women's basketball coach, Pat Summitt, presented her with the Most Courageous Award there on the hardwood. This is a distinction normally reserved for a woman's coach or player during the final four. All of this after weeks of national support for Hill in the form of the hash tag campaign, #LayupsforLaurenchallenge, taken up by the Cincinnati Bengals and Garth Brooks. And Hill led her team to a 66-55 victory.
Dying Basketball Player Plays in the NCAA.