National champs from DePauw at White House Friday

The 2012-2013 DePauw University women's basketball national champion squad poses Thursday afternoon with the Capitol building in Washington, D.C., as a backdrop.

WASHINGTON -- DePauw University's national championship women's basketball team is in Washington, D.C., where the student-athletes and their coach, Kris Huffman, will attend a ceremony at the White House this afternoon in honor of the Indiana Fever, who will be honored for winning the WNBA championship.

President Barack Obama is expected to attend the 2:45 p.m. event in the East Room, which will be webcast at www.whitehouse.gov/live.

Members of the group began arriving in the nation's capital Thursday afternoon.

The Tigers were a perfect 34-0 this season and Huffman won three national Coach of the Year awards.

DePauw, which also took the national title in 2007, sealed the historic season on March 16 with a 69-51 victory over Wisconsin-Whitewater in the NCAA Division III national championship game, becoming the only team in Division III women's basketball history to win 34 games in a season.