Vice President Kamala Harris bricked this one.
Harris mistakenly said in a recent interview that the women’s NCAA Tournament only introduced brackets in 2022, which, well, is completely false.
A source told The Post, though, that the Vice President — despite using wrong verbiage — was referring to how the Women’s Tournament only received March Madness branding in 2022.
“Do you know — OK, a bit of a history lesson — do you know that the women’s teams were not allowed to have brackets until 2022?” Harris said in an interview with Spectrum News in North Carolina at a clean energy event. “Think about that, and talk about progress, ya know, better late than never but progress.
“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. This is the reality. People used to say, ‘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, we’re talking about star athletes who are incredibly gifted … It’s nice we are finally giving women in sports that kind of platform. I find it so exciting.'”
While Harris botched her message, the timeline for her intended statement is correct.
The Women’s Tournament only started using March Madness branding in 2022, which had previously belonged to the Men’s Tournament.
Brackets, though, have been a staple since the first Division I Women’s Tournament in 1982.
It did not take long for Harris filling out a women’s bracket in 2021 to resurface.
Harris actually tweeted a photo this March of her filling out her brackets and she only hit one Final Four team on both the men’s and women’s brackets — although her champion is alive in both fields.
The Vice President has undefeated South Carolina triumphing in the women’s bracket but had Stanford, USC and UCLA making the Final Four.
Instead, Iowa and Caitlin Clark, UConn and Paige Bueckers and NC State round out the remaining field in Cleveland.
On the men’s side, Harris chose UConn to emerge victorious from a Final Four field featuring Tennessee, North Carolina and Marquette.
The top-ranked Huskies instead will battle Alabama, and the winner of Saturday’s nightcap will then meet the winner of Purdue vs. NC State.
