'...gender inequities were baked into the very fabric of the tournaments and how the tournaments were viewed by the NCAA.' A scathing review has found the women’s teams received less resources than the men at the NCAA Tournament this past March.
From the first practice to the Final Four, the bells and whistles for the women’s NCAA Tournament this year lagged way behind those at the men’s tourney.
At almost every step after that, the report found, the men’s tournament went full speed ahead for well-equipped weight rooms, spacious lounge areas at its hotels and tournament sites while those running the women’s event did not have similar resources. The firm’s deep dive also discovered that COVID-19 testing procedures differed in the two tournament bubble sites, men getting daily rapid polymerase chain reaction tests while women were required to have just one PCR test a week along with daily antigen testing.
— Food. Men ate from a buffet-style layout at hotels while women were limited to prepackaged meals until the disparity was made public.
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