Indiana University women’s basketball coach Teri Moren ripped the “disappointing” environment of the Las Vegas Invitational tournament over the weekend, which took place inside a hotel ballroom at The Mirage Resort and Casino.

In now-photos on social media, a game between Indiana and Auburn was played in a fully-carpeted  90,000 square-foot event space that had no stands for spectators. There were chairs placed around the perimeter of the court, however, there appeared to be limited attendance.

Moren said situation was a “major miss” for the progression of the women’s game, and that her No. 6-ranked undefeated team was given a different idea of what the venue would look like.

“I think there are other people that probably need to apologize as well for wanting us to come and play in this event and making promises, if you will,” she said. “This is 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…

“What is disappointing was the aesthetics; it’s not a fan-friendly environment. As women’s basketball coaches, we’re trying to move our game forward. It felt like because it got so many ticks on social, that we had taken a couple steps backward in this moment, and I shared that with the site coordinator [Ryan Polk].

“We have an obligation to grow our game, and we completely missed on this opportunity because you have a lot of really good teams that are here representing their conferences. 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 did not condemn playing in ballrooms, however, the coach explained that in this particular instance, the court aesthetics should have been held to a higher standard.

“We’ve played in ballrooms before. We were in the Bahamas last year: Another ballroom scenario, but looked far different than the ballroom we’ve played in the last two nights,” she said. “I don’t want there to be the notion that playing in ballrooms is dangerous. But in this particular event, there were a lot of things that needed to be better.”

The Hoosiers said that in March, the tournament’s director, Bryce McKey told them that the event would have a similar court setup to that of the Athletes Unlimited professional women’s league, which took place in Las Vegas earlier this year.

McKey was not in attendance at the tournament on Saturday, as he was at a different one in Daytona, Florida over the weekend.

Polk told ESPN that he apologized to players, coaches, fans and referees about the tournament conditions.

“We’re very sorry,” he said. “The court and the lighting, that stuff hasn’t been an issue. But we needed to have full-on bleachers. We have notified The Mirage we won’t be coming back again. This is a one-time disaster in terms of events. It definitely did not go the way we thought or planned. We just severely missed the mark when comes to the spectator side.”

Moren also dismissed speculation about the court after controversy erupted on social media due to multiple injuries, including Indiana guard Grace Berger — who suffered a knee injury on Friday that sidelined her for Saturday’s 79-64 victory over the Memphis Tigers.

Prior to the Indiana-Auburn game Saturday, Tigers forward Kharyssa Richardson sustained an injury while chasing a loose ball in a game against the Colorado State Rams.

The game was delayed with four minutes to go in the fourth quarter of the Tigers’ 74-73 win over the Rams, as Richardson awaited medical attention. She was taken to the hospital after it reportedly took more than 40 minutes for paramedics to arrive to the court.

“I don’t read a lot of social [media],” Moren said. “But this notion that the floor … there’s no problem with the floor. The injury to Grace did not happen because of the floor.

“[But] I think any good tournament has EMT and all that, medical professionals, on site. And once again that wasn’t the case. Another big miss for this tournament. There were a lot of things that should have been better, and they just weren’t. I was very frustrated having to watch that moment for Auburn.”

Indiana defeated Auburn and Memphis in the tournament to remain unbeaten through seven games. IU hosts North Carolina in the Big Ten-ACC Challenge Thursday night.