BURNABY, B.C. -- Simon Fraser University will honour the memory of Canadian hero Terry Fox by raising a banner displaying his name and No. 4 that he wore as a student-athlete on the Clan junior varsity basketball team to the West Gym rafters on Red Night -- Saturday, December 6.

Red Night is the NCAA Division II Great Northwest Athletic Conference season opener for both SFU basketball teams where fans traditionally wear red in support of the Clan.  

The banner-raising ceremony will take place prior to tip-off of the men's game beginning at 7:30 PM.  During the ceremony Terry's original jersey will be presented to the Fox Family, represented by Terry's brother, Fred Fox. The original No. 4 jersey will be displayed in the Terry Fox Collection at the renamed Canadian Museum of History in Gatineau, Que, which will open in April 2015, coinciding with the 35th anniversary of the Marathon of Hope.

Tip-off to the women's game on Dec. 6 is at 5:15 PM.

SFU will face conference rival Western Washington University Vikings in both games on Red Night. The Clan men are running the "seven-seconds-or-less" offence made famous by Steve Nash and the Phoenix Suns. SFU leads the NCAA Division II in scoring, averaging 126.7 points per game -- 40 points more than their closest Great Northwest Athletic Conference opponent.

The women's team is led by senior guard-forward Erin Chambers. The senior forward was Player of the Week after leading the Clan to a pair of victories last week and flirting with a triple-double in one contest. Chambers is averaging a conference-leading 26 ppg.

Game tickets are $10 for adults, $5 for visiting students and $2 for children, seniors and SFU staff. SFU students are admitted free with a valid student ID card. Group rates are also available here.

Fox was a Simon Fraser University student and member of the junior varsity basketball team coached by Alex Devlin prior to losing his right leg to bone cancer in 1977 at the age of 18.

The No. 4 jersey belonging to Fox was officially retired in 2005 in honour of SFU's 40th birthday and the 25th anniversary of the end of Fox's cross-Canada run for cancer research. It is one of four jerseys retired by SFU's basketball programs and will be the first to be raised to the West Gym rafters.

The No. 12 jersey belonging to former Canadian Olympian and current NBA coach, Jay Triano, the No. 24 jersey of two-time NAIA Player of the Year, Michelle Hendry, and the No. 13 jersey belonging to NAIA all-time assist leader, Andrea Schnider, have all been retired.

The Clan men will host an exclusive dinner at Club Ilia on campus for alumni and supporters beginning at 5:00 PM on December 6. The dinner will be attended by Fred Fox and will feature a pre-game chalk talk with Simon Fraser head coach James Blake and a guest speaker. Tickets to the Red Night dinner are $75 for adults and $20 for children, and include a game ticket. To reserve tickets email tickets@sfu.ca or call 778-782-4056. More information on the Red Night Dinner is here.

The Fox legacy lives on to this day. More than $600 million has been raised worldwide for cancer research in Terry's name through the annual Terry Fox Run that is held across Canada, including on campus at Simon Fraser University, and around the world.

In addition, the Terry Fox Humanitarian Award Program was established in 1982 to commemorate Terry's courage and tenacity in his cross-Canada Marathon of Hope. The Terry Fox Humanitarian Award recognizes the benevolence of young Canadians and encourages them to continue in their humanitarian work while attending college or university in Canada.