EUGENE — Saturday started off bad for the Texas Southern women’s basketball team and it didn’t get any better on the court against No. 1 Oregon.

A duffel bag containing the uniforms for the visiting Tigers was taken from a conference room at the Graduate hotel in downtown Eugene Saturday morning, according to Eugene police, who were called at 10:13 a.m. Saturday. Police said there was no information on the suspects as of 4:50 p.m. following TSU’s 99-63 loss to Oregon at Matthew Knight Arena in which the Tigers were forced to play in their practice jerseys, with some featuring numbers made from athletic tape.

TSU coach Cynthia Cooper-Dyke praised the hotel and Eugene police for their efforts in finding the missing uniforms.

“We left to organize our film; we came back to the holding room they were gone,” Cooper-Dyke said. “We looked everywhere for them. It was just a great show of support that the city gave us. ... Up until the last moment we were hopeful we would find them or someone would anonymously drop them off but it didn’t happen."

Oregon coach Kelly Graves sympathized with TSU, sharing an anecdote about having his team having to play in practice uniforms years ago when they went missing at a laundromat.

“That’s never fun,” Graves said. “I’ve seen teams do it, believe it or not. It was probably 20 years ago I asked a coach, ‘how come you were in practice gear? And he said we practice better than we play.’”

Cooper-Dyke said TSU will have new uniforms shipped to meet them before their next game at Iowa State Tuesday.