NCAA's Shockingly Different Treatment of Women's and Men's Basketball

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Ummm...NCAA, you have some explaining to do. Social media postings surfaced showing the horrible differences between the women's and men's weight rooms at their respective tournament bubbles. The NCAA Tournament is the biggest stage for both women's and men's college basketball. However, the women's tournament doesn't get the press attention and coverage that the men's tournament does. On this big of a stage, why is there still so much discrimination?

Let's take a step back and talk about what social media was saying. The women's weight room had ONE (yes ONE) tiny weight rack and the men's facility had squat racks, weights, and benches up the wazoo. There was even a time-lapse video posted showing the construction of this massive facility. Did you know that women don't need to workout or lift weights? Hmmmm....neither did I.

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Countless, WNBA stars Tweeted on the issue and expressed their discontent for the difference in treatment of women's and men's basketball that continues to persist in society. Many women's college basketball players also took to social media showing the facility and say how unfair it is. When will it stop? When will there be equality in sports?

Please watch the video below.

Here was the statement from the NCAA.

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From the video above, you can see that space is not a issue. The issue is people not seeing women as equal in the sports world. The issue is people not seeing that women need to train and lift weight too. The issue is that people still dismiss women's sports. I was watching the local news the other day and they were talking about March Madness and didn't once mention the women's tournament. If you Google "NCAA Tournament" it defaults to showing the men's tournament. Do people even know that there is a women's NCAA Tournament too?

If you aren't enraged by this, you're part of the problem. I sit here dumbfounded that stuff like this still happens. We have so much work to do.