Big-Time Sports Fan Kamala Harris Says NCAA Women's Tournament Wasn't 'Allowed' To Have Brackets Until 2022

Vice President Kamala Harris took a break from ignoring the border crisis on Thursday for a quick trip to Charlotte, NC to announce $20 billion worth of climate and clean energy products across the United States. Given that a camera and microphone were within a few feet of her, she of course had to say something that was both ridiculous and untrue, and this time around the subject was the NCAA Women's basketball tournament.

According to Harris, the women's tournament was not "allowed" to have brackets until 2022 which she then implied that without a bracket, fans weren't able to "see" the women's games being played.

This is - you guessed it - completely false. The first NCAA Women's Tournament took place in 1982 where 32 teams were seeded and put into a bracket just like we see the 68-team field bracketed today. Harris was 17-years-old when the first NCAA women's tournament bracket was put together. One would imagine she would remember such a big day in women's sports, but then again, she didn't need the talking point back then as a teenager.

Harris can't speak for too long without complaining about something, so she decided to make up information about the women's hoops tournament with a poor attempt of complaining about discrimination between the men's and women's tournaments.

"Do you know, a bit of a history lesson, that the women's teams were not allowed to have brackets until 2022," Harris asked the reporter who shook his head in agreement. "Think about that. Talk about progress, better late than never. Because what that has done, how we love March Madness, and even just now allowing the women to have brackets and what that does to encourage people to talk about the women's teams, to watch them, and now they're being covered."

"This is the reality, people used to say ‘women’s sports, this isn't interesting,' well if you can't see it, you won't be. But when you see it, you realize oh."

It's also worth noting that Harris acknowledged her husband filled out a women's bracket back in 2021. It must have been one of those bootleg brackets only world ‘leaders’ and their significant others can get a hold of.

The blatant lie about the women's tournament not having brackets until two years ago is the obvious takeaway here, but the word vomit that followed that statement about not being allowed to "see" the tournament due to the lack of brackets is a hall-of-fame sequence from Mrs. VP.

The word she was actually looking for here was ‘care,’ people didn't ‘care’ about the women's tournament until there were brackets. That would be a lie too, of course, both because women's brackets have been around for over 40 years and because women's hoops fans have cared about the tournament for decades upon decades.