The N.C.A.A. acknowledges a $13.5 million budget gap between men's and women's tournaments.
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 | | Figures provided by the N.C.A.A. show that in 2019, its budget for the men's basketball tournament was nearly double that of the women's basketball tournament.Sarah Stier/Getty Images |
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The N.C.A.A.'s budget for its men's basketball tournament was nearly double that of its women's event in 2019, newly revealed financial data shows. |
The findings come in the midst of this year's basketball tournaments, where the disparities between the men's and women's tournaments have already drawn attention and outrage after images comparing the two workout spaces went viral. |
The men's tournament featured a well-stocked workout complex. Athletes at the women's tournament appeared to only have access to a rack of hand weights. The N.C.A.A. has since apologized and vowed to improve. |
But the $13.5 million gap in the 2019 tournaments will surely drive further questions about the organization's commitment to gender equity, Alan Blinder writes. |
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 | | Paige Bueckers and the Connecticut Huskies are matched up against Iowa in a game centered around two freshman stars.Daniel Dunn/USA Today Sports, via Reuters |
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Oral Roberts is only the second No. 15 seed to make it to the final 16 of the men's N.C.A.A. tournament. Can it become the first to make it to the last eight? Standing in its way is third-seeded Arkansas (Saturday, 7:25 p.m., TBS). |
In a tournament of upsets, the only game left in which both expected seeds have advanced is No. 1 Michigan against No. 4 Florida State (Sunday, 5 p.m., CBS). |
Two of the more compelling players in the country, both freshmen, meet in the women's tournament as Caitlin Clark, who led the nation in scoring, leads fifth-seeded Iowa against top-seeded Connecticut and Paige Bueckers (Saturday, 1 p.m., ABC). |
Here's a rare tournament where the semifinal is much more important than the final. The United States under-23 team meets Honduras: The winner goes to the Olympics; the loser does not. Whichever team wins won't mind too much if it loses in the relatively meaningless final two days later (Sunday, 5 p.m., FS1). |
Something different on the PGA Tour this week: the year's only match play event, in Austin, Texas. Who will join Dustin Johnson, Rory McIlroy and Tiger Woods on the roster of champions? (Final, Sunday, 3 p.m., NBC.) |
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