Column: The NCAA must stop mistreating women’s athletics

women’s game as much as it does the men’s.

March Madness has been a crowning example of how great the NCAA can be.

The men’s tournament draws in millions of viewers per year as everyone watches the drama, excitement and heartbreak.

The women’s game, though, has been consistently mistreated by the NCAA and viewers. That may not seem the case at LSU where the women’s team has a lot of hype surrounding it and is breaking records.

The LSU’s women’s team has garnered the support of the whole state with Kim Mulkey’s electric attitude and fashion sense and Angel Reese’s tough play on the court. The team here has all the support it needs to continue to grow and become one of the best programs in the nation.

In March, as women’s history month, it’s interesting to see how the NCAA fails to support the

From underfunding games, to not building proper weight rooms in the bubble and making teams play in a hotel conference room, the mistreatment of women’s basketball by everyone has been disappointing to read about.

For example, a report published in 2022 by the NCAA itself reveals that men’s teams receive twice as much funding as women’s teams.

This is seen across all sports and is simply unacceptable for the women that work just as hard as the men to play the same game. Both programs need to be equally funded.

During the times of bubble play during the COVID-19 pandemic, teams were in need of gyms or work out rooms wherever they were staying, to stay in shape for the upcoming games.

The men’s teams walked into nice expansive and large weight rooms with everything