U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris gave a “history lesson” Thursday to explain the recent resurgence in popularity of women’s college basketball.
The only problem? Her “history” is very wrong.
In a conversation with Spectrum News’ Tim Boyum, Harris loudly and confidently asserted that women’s basketball’s increased popularity is due to the lack of brackets in past women’s tournaments.
do you know? Now, let’s study a little history. Did you know that women are not and women’s teams were not allowed to have a bracket until 2022? Let’s think about it. And what? that. Talk about progress. Better late than never to know about progress and what it has brought about. Of course, when I had the bracket, it wasn’t completely broken, but I won’t talk about the bracket. But you know, we love March She Madness. And granting brackets to women’s teams right now would help encourage people to talk more about women’s teams and watch women’s teams. Now they are being reported, but this is the reality of what was said to be a women’s sport. Who’s interested? Well, if you can’t see it, you won’t see it. But when you look at it, you realize, oh.
Sports fan Kamala Harris claims the NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament “wasn’t allowed to use brackets until 2022.”
As usual, she’s wrong. pic.twitter.com/QaRSsngSxP
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 5, 2024
oh? Rather, it’s like, “Oh.” Not only is Harris historically incorrect in claiming that women’s college basketball just started using brackets in 2022, but she filled out brackets for women’s college basketball in 2021.
So I used the #1 seed.I thought you were a fan of #2! https://t.co/lYGnY4lT9B
— Vice President Kamala Harris (@VP) March 18, 2021
The real “history” here is that the NCAA Women’s College Basketball Tournament has used brackets for quite some time. What’s new is the adoption of March Madness copyrights, which started last year.
as a media person report“Mediaite reached out to the Vice President’s Office for clarification and found that Ms. Harris actually made a gaffe and meant to say that her use of the ‘March Madness’ copyright was just for the sake of it.” I was told that now available I also participated in the women’s tournament last year. ”
Of course that’s not what she said! She said parenthesis, not march madness. Nevertheless, at least now we know she didn’t fill the slot in 2021.
