IndyStar's Justin Mack and David Woods discuss Andrew Smith's death and his impact on Butler basketball. Clark Wade / IndyStar.com
These young people, they died too soon – but first they showed us how to live. Lauren Hill with her face swollen from the steroid treatment for brain cancer, Andrew Smith with his head bald from chemotherapy for leukemia. Both of them refusing to die their death.
Both of them choosing instead to live their life.
They are linked by youth and cancer and basketball, and by something so much bigger.