NCAA Coach Details ‘Racial Hate Crimes’ Against Players

University of Utah women’s basketball coach Lynne Roberts said that her players were subjected to “racial hate crimes” while staying in a hotel in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, last week during the NCAA tournament.

“We had several instances of some kind of racial hate crimes toward our program,” Roberts said in a press conference on Monday, adding that it was “incredibly upsetting for all of us.”

She continued: “You think in our worlds—you know, in athletics and in university settings, it’s shocking—there’s so much diversity on a college campus, and so you’re just not exposed to that very often. ... Racism is real, and it happens. And it’s awful. So for our players, whether they are white, black, green, whatever, no one knew how to handle it.”

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