IUPUI's Hunter coaches game shoeless

To raise awareness for a charity, IUPUI men's basketball coach Ron Hunter paced the sidelines shoeless in a game last night.

Hunter has been working with Samaritan's Feet, a nonprofit, Christian-based charity that seeks to put shoes on 10 million people over a 10 year span.

His goal was 40,000 shoes. But he's up to 110,000 thanks to the contributions of many organizations and donors.

"When we started this I thought 40,000 was going to be tough," Hunter said. "When they told me before the game we already had 100,000, honestly, I almost broke down in tears."

At that moment, he cried.

"Imagine if every coach would pick a game to coach barefoot and use their influence," said Emmanuel "Manny" Ohonme, a Nigerian who founded the charity four years ago. "We'd exceed our goals pretty quickly.

"And we're getting e-mails every couple of minutes from people who want more information or to say they just bought a pair," he said. "Plus, there's all these high school coaches around the country who say they want to coach a game barefoot."

What outstanding work by Hunter and all of the contributors to this charity. Truly remarkable people. Hunter will be ABC World News Tonight's "Person of the Week" tonight (6:30 p.m.).