CROWN POINT | Coming off the most successful year in the franchise’s illustrious history, with a record-breaking 62 box office records and more than 2,000,000 smiling fans, the iconic Harlem Globetrotters, in partnership locally with Showtime Sports & Entertainment LLC. and the city of Crown Point, will bring their eye-popping 2010 World Tour to Crown Point.

Sponsored by Campbell Soup Company, Spalding, and America’s Best Contacts and Eyeglasses, the Harlem Globetrotters will take the court at 7 p.m. Jan. 19 at the Crown Point High School gymnasium, 1500 S. Main St.

Tickets start at $15 and are available online at ticketweb.com. Individual and group ticket information can also be found on the Harlem Globetrotters’ official Web site, harlemglobetrotters.com.

Wholesome family entertainment known worldwide for thrilling fans young and old and making cherished family memories will be in store for the Hub City crowd as the Globetrotters’ high-flying show brings some of the most extraordinary athletes and entertainers on the planet to Northwest Indiana.

Now in its 84th consecutive season of touring the world, the Globetrotters line-up features Big Easy Lofton and Flight Time Lang, recently teamed up in the Emmy Award-winning CBS reality hit, "The Amazing

Race," the always hilarious Special K Daley, dribbling magician Scooter Christensen, and ball handling wizards Handles Franklin and Ant Atkinson.

Sports Illustrated praised the Globetrotters' show as "the sports equivalent of comfort food," in its March 2009 feature article titled, "Still Crazy After All These Years."

"The Harlem Globetrotters are the epitome of world-class family fun," said Michael Kenney, the Globetrotters’ senior vice president, live event marketing.

Now in its 84th year of basketball entertainment, the Globetrotters will perform nearly 270 shows in more than 200 cities in 44 states, the District of

Columbia, five Canadian provinces and Puerto Rico through the first week of May 2010.

The Original Harlem Globetrotters have played in 120 countries on six continents, entertaining more than 130 million fans and crossing barriers between cultures, societies and people from all walks of life. The

Globetrotters are one of only six teams to be inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

For the latest news and information about the Harlem Globetrotters, and to purchase team merchandise, visit harlemglobetrotters.com.