Utah coach Lynne Roberts said her team experienced a series of racial hate crimes after arriving at its first NCAA Tournament hotel and was forced to change hotels during the event for safety concerns.

Roberts revealed what happened after Utah lost to Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAAs on Monday night. Roberts didnt go into detail but said there were several incidents that happened last Thursday night after the team arrived in the area for the tournament and were disturbing to the traveling party to the point there were concerns about safety.

Utah was staying about 30 miles away in Coeur dAlene, Idaho, and was relocated to a different hotel on Friday.

We had several instances of some kind of racial hate crimes toward our program and (it was) incredibly upsetting for all of us, Roberts said. In our world, in athletics and in university settings, its shocking. Theres so much diversity on a college campus and so youre just not exposed to that very often.

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