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IU's Moren says Vegas tournament set back women's basketball

Indiana head women's basketball coach Teri Moren

The games were played in a large ballroom at the Mirage Hotel, with no seating for fans. (Pat Beane/WTIU)

The fifth-ranked IU women’s basketball team found itself all over social media this past weekend, but not for improving to 7-0 on the season.

The Hoosiers were one of 10 teams playing in the Las Vegas Invitational on Friday and Saturday. But the games were played in a large ballroom at the Mirage Hotel, with no seating for fans.

That led to outrage on Twitter and other social media platforms about a lack of respect for women’s basketball.

Indiana head coach Teri Moren said it was a setback for women’s basketball.

“As women's basketball coaches, we're trying to move our game forward. And, you know, it felt like because it got so many clicks on social that we had taken a couple steps backward in this moment,” Moren said. “And I shared that with the site coordinator.

“We completely missed on this opportunity, because you have a lot of really good teams that are here representing their conferences, and it would have been a great opportunity. I see all these other tournaments going on and footage of that, but this was a major miss, in my opinion, in terms of helping to grow this game.”

Moren said tournament officials apologized for the conditions.

“I think there are other people that need to apologize as well,” Moren said. “[Them] wanting us to come and play in this event and making, I don’t know, promises, if you will. But you know, this was not what was described to us as far as what the venue was going to look like, what the setup was going to look like.”

The Hoosiers won both games in Vegas, beating Auburn, 96-81, and Memphis, 79-64. But they lost star guard Grace Berger to a knee injury early in the opener.

Moren said the court conditions were not to blame for Berger’s injury, but the Hoosiers’ game Saturday night was delayed almost an hour because an Auburn player in the prior game was injured and it took EMTs more than 40 minutes to reach the venue.

“I think any good tournament has EMTs, all of the medical professionals on site,” Moren said. “And once again, you know, that wasn't the case. And so, another big miss for this tournament where there were a lot of things that should have should have been better, and they just weren't.”

Moren doesn’t dismiss the idea of playing in ballrooms outright. The Hoosiers played in a tournament in Nassau, Bahamas, last year that was staged in a ballroom.

“Another ballroom scenario, but it looked far different than the ballroom that we've played in the last two nights,” she said. “So, I don't want there to be this notion out there that playing in ballrooms is dangerous and so forth. That's not the case. But in this particular event, there were a lot of things that needed to be better.”

There’s been no update to the extent of Berger’s injury, but senior forward Mackenzie Holmes said it was up to everyone to pick up the slack.

“It doesn't matter what position you are or if you for coming off the bench or if you're in the starting five, everyone needed to step up just that little bit more,” Holmes said. “And I think that, you know, we had some girls who did that.”

Holmes did her part, averaging 26.5 points and 8.5 rebounds in the two contests. For the season, she’s averaging 20.0 points and 7.4 rebounds a game, both best on the team.

IU hosts No. 6 North Carolina in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge Thursday night.

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