Moments after her team lost its second-round game Monday in the NCAA tournament, Utah women’s basketball coach Lynne Roberts revealed her players had experienced “racial hate crimes” last week on its first night at the tournament.
Utah players as well as band members and cheerleaders were assigned by the NCAA to accommodations in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, roughly 30 miles from the site of first- and second-round games in Spokane, Wash. On Thursday night, they were walking to a restaurant when a white truck near the team revved its engines before the driver yelled the n-word, then sped off. Another similar incident involving two trucks occurred when the group was leaving the restaurant around two hours later. Read More
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