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Do you know that women were not the women's teams
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Kamala Harris Wrongly Claims NCAA Women’s Basketball ‘Was Not Allowed to Have Brackets Until 2022’
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It’s never great to see an elected official make a clear and obvious mistake while speaking publicly. When the official is confidently making the mistake? Oof.
Such was the case Thursday when Vice President Kamala Harris mistakenly claimed that women’s college basketball players had not enjoyed the benefits of tournament brackets until just last year, 2022. Tournament brackets have long been a fixture of the NCAA women’s basketball postseason, but the “March Madness” copyright was only extended to the women last year.
Harris spoke with Spectrum News’ Tim Boyum behind the scenes at a Charlotte, North Carolina, event on Thursday, where she also explained how a call between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “candid and frank.”
As the discussion turned to lighter fare, like the spike in public interest in women’s college basketball evidenced by record television ratings from Monday evening game between Iowa and LSU, VP Harris mistakenly explained that the rise in popularity was largely due to a lack of brackets:
Mediaite reached out to the Vice President’s office for clarification and was told that Harris did, in fact, misspeak and that she meant to say that the use of the “March Madness” copyright was only made available to the women’s tournament last year.
As Ziggy has long preached, “pobody’s nerfect!” Nobody is immune to mistakes like this, but regrettably, this was delivered with an air of condescension by someone giving an insightful history lesson that is sadly wrong.
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Kamala Harris Wrongly Claims NCAA Women’s Basketball ‘Was Not Allowed to Have Brackets Until 2022’
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It’s never great to see an elected official make a clear and obvious mistake while speaking publicly. When the official is confidently making the mistake? Oof.
Such was the case Thursday when Vice President Kamala Harris mistakenly claimed that women’s college basketball players had not enjoyed the benefits of tournament brackets until just last year, 2022. Tournament brackets have long been a fixture of the NCAA women’s basketball postseason, but the “March Madness” copyright was only extended to the women last year.
Harris spoke with Spectrum News’ Tim Boyum behind the scenes at a Charlotte, North Carolina, event on Thursday, where she also explained how a call between President Joe Biden and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was “candid and frank.”
As the discussion turned to lighter fare, like the spike in public interest in women’s college basketball evidenced by record television ratings from Monday evening game between Iowa and LSU, VP Harris mistakenly explained that the rise in popularity was largely due to a lack of brackets:
The thing is that Vice President Harris knows that the NCAA women’s tournament existed — with brackets — in 2021, evidenced by a bracket she filled out herself and posted on the social media platform then known as Twitter. To wit:
Mediaite reached out to the Vice President’s office for clarification and was told that Harris did, in fact, misspeak and that she meant to say that the use of the “March Madness” copyright was only made available to the women’s tournament last year.
As Ziggy has long preached, “pobody’s nerfect!” Nobody is immune to mistakes like this, but regrettably, this was delivered with an air of condescension by someone giving an insightful history lesson that is sadly wrong.
