Coach Cries Foul Over Ill-Equipped Vegas Women’s Basketball Tourney

Indiana Hoosiers women’s basketball handler Teri Moren was shocked when she arrived at The Mirage this weekend to assure the setup for the Las Vegas Invitational tournament this weekend, according to multiple reports. The tourney took station inwards a dance hall with folding chairs for the audience instead of bleachers. Even to a greater extent unforgivably for a professional sporting event, at that place were no protection personnel or paramedics on hand.

“We’ve played inward ballrooms before,” Moren told ESPN. “I don’t need in that location to be the whimsey that playing in ballrooms is dangerous. But in this special event, there were a lot of things that needful to live better.”

The deficiency of paramedics almost proved grievous on Saturday, when Auburn Tigers player Kharyssa Sir Ralph David Richardson slammed into the level with foursome minutes left against Centennial State State, appearing to bang her head. EMT personnel took 50 transactions to come on the view and care for her.

Richardson was transported to a local hospital, but Auburn – which won its spunky 74-73 – tweeted that she was snappy and responsive.

The day before, another accidental injury was sustained inwards the tourney by IN safety Grace Berger, when an Auburn Tigers player collided with her right leg a minute of arc into their game. The Hoosiers star guard sat on the bench with water ice on her knee, and was kept out of Saturday’s 79-64 triumph o'er the Memphis Tigers.

“I opine any goodness tournament has EMT and all that, medical professionals on site,” Moren told ESPN. “And erstwhile again, that wasn’t the case. Another bountiful misfire for this tournament. There were a lot of things that should hold been better, and they simply weren’t. I was rattling frustrated having to look on that moment for Auburn.”

Floor Violation

Moren showed ESPN correspondence the shoal had inward March with tourney theater director Bryce McKey, who promised the Hoosiers that the setup would resemble the Athletes Unlimited professional person women’s league. That took station Jan. 25-Feb. 15, 2022 at Sport Center of Las Vegas.

But situation coordinator Ryan Polk told ESPN that tourney organizers realized too later(a) that this was not the case.

“We’re rattling sorry,” President Polk said. “The lawcourt docket and the lighting, that choke up hasn’t been a difficulty. However, we wanted to have got full-on bleachers. We hold now notified The Mirage we can’t be coming again…”

Moren told ESPN that there were “other people who likely want to apologize” for what happened this weekend. In a break up Zoom question with sports reporters, she went as far as locution that the tourney localise women’s basketball game “a twosome of steps backward.”

“We are trying to make a motion our spunky forward,” she said on that call. “We make an obligation to produce our game, and we completely missed on this opportunity.”