U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris provided a detailed explanation on Thursday regarding the recent increase in popularity of women’s college basketball, referring to it as a “history lesson”. The issue lies in the fact that her account of history is inaccurate.

During a discussion with Spectrum News’ Tim Boyum, Harris confidently asserted that the rise in popularity of women’s basketball can be attributed to the absence of brackets in the women’s tournament in the past.

“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? 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. 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, 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:”

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Harris not only made a historical error by asserting that women’s college basketball started using brackets in 2022, but she also completed a women’s college basketball bracket in 2021.

As Mediaite reports, “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.”