The Utah women’s basketball team checked into a luxurious lakeside resort in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, last Thursday ahead of its first-round NCAA tournament game.
By the next morning, the NCAA was scrambling to find the Utes somewhere else to stay after they experienced what coach Lynne Roberts described as a series of “racial hate crimes.’
Roberts waited to reveal what happened until after Utah's season ended Monday night in Spokane with a 77-66 second-round loss to Gonzaga. The Utah coach described the incidents as “shocking” and said “no one knew how to handle it.”
“It was really upsetting,” Roberts said.