Organizers of the hugely popular, and lucrative, US collegiate basketball tournament known as the March Madness were under fire Friday for disparities in the facilities offered at the men’s and women’s events.
University of Oregon sophomore Sedona Prince launched the debate with a social media video of the “weight room” offered at the women’s tournament in San Antonio — showing a small rack of free weights with no benches or other amenities.
“Lemme show y’all the men’s weight room,” Prince said as her video cut to a well-equipped gym at the men’s tournament in Indiana.
Let me put it on Twitter too cause this needs the attention pic.twitter.com/t0DWKL2YHR
— Sedona Prince (@sedonaprince_) March 19, 2021
Prince scoffed at the NCAA’s initial respo…
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