This week, United States Vice President Kamala Harris tried to give the world a bit of a “history lesson” about women’s college basketball, but it sounds like she’s the one who actually needs to the history lesson.
During a recent interview with Spectrum News, Kamala Harris incorrectly and bizarrely claimed that women’s college basketball teams “were not allowed to have brackets until 2022.”
“Do you know? Okay, a bit of a history lesson. Do you know that women were not. The women’s teams were not allowed to have brackets until 2022,” Harris said. “Think about that. And what? That. Talk about progress. You know better late than never, but progress and what that has done. Because of course, when, you know, I had a bracket and it’s not broken completely, but I won’t talk about my bracket.
Sports Fan Kamala Harris claims the NCAA women's basketball tournament was "not allowed to have brackets until 2022."
As usual, she is wrong. pic.twitter.com/QaRSsngSxP
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) April 5, 2024
“But you know, just how we love we love March Madness. And even just now allowing the women to have brackets and what that does to encourage people to talk more about the women’s teams, to watch them now they’re being covered, you know, and this is the reality people used to say are women’s sports. Who’s interested? Well, if you can’t see it, you won’t be. But when you see it, you realize, oh.”
It’s not clear what Harris is trying to say, whether she is claiming that the women’s tournament didn’t exist before 2022 or whether she’s claiming that people were not allowed to create bracket predictions for the women’s basketball tournament before 2022. Either way, she’s completely incorrect, and she got absolutely blasted for it on social media.
Here's Harris in 2021 (a year where women's college basketball supposedly wasn't "allowed to have brackets"), tweeting about … her husband's women's bracket. https://t.co/K2qoxezOpF pic.twitter.com/UiMuZzl4iN
— Zach Parkinson (@AZachParkinson) April 5, 2024
Do politicians just say things and think the internet doesn’t exist lol https://t.co/fEvADL5PRs
— Mitchell Deter (@mitchyd_CSU_12) April 5, 2024
Prior to 2022 women’s basketball only had Venn diagrams https://t.co/uPkM9xJghj
— Sean Agnew (@seanagnew) April 5, 2024
Reporter just nods along at her lies https://t.co/tUIziP24fb
— Matt Batzel (@MattBatzel) April 5, 2024
Has anyone figured out what she was talking about here? The women’s tournament has had “brackets” for literally decades. https://t.co/ISIbqznBPl
— Andrew Wagner (@andrewwagner) April 5, 2024
It’s downright hilarious how she sits there and just spouts off a blatant lie with such confidence and ease lol. Like anyone with a sliver of sports knowledge doesn’t know she’s 100% factually wrong. https://t.co/bK87sUJzr5
— JKuhn (@h8rproof82) April 5, 2024
But no really, what is she talking about here? Is there some context we're missing? What does she mean women's teams were "not allowed to have brackets until 2022?" Please help. Really trying to understand here. https://t.co/3Ic1KaclPX
— Conn Carroll (@conncarroll) April 5, 2024
The NCAA Women’s Basketball Tournament began in 1982. And since the beginning, fans have been able to make their predictions on a blank bracket, just like the men.
