Article 5XGVX Googling ‘March Madness’ still defaults to men’s games

Googling ‘March Madness’ still defaults to men’s games

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Nicole Wetsman
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1239416138.0.jpg UConnn's Paige Bueckers faces off against UCF players Tay Sanders and Alisha Lewisin in the second round of the tournament. | Photo by M. Anthony Nesmith/Icon Sportswire via Getty Images

Sweet Sixteen games in this year's March Madness tip off tonight and tomorrow - all exciting games (like reigning national champions Stanford vs. Maryland) and one that is going to be deeply stressful for me personally (Connecticut vs. Indiana - go Huskies).

You'd be forgiven for thinking that the games started yesterday, though. As of this writing, searching sweet sixteen march madness" pulls up a schedule box for the men's tournament, which did have that round start yesterday. The women's games are relegated to a ribbon at the bottom.

This is the first year that the women's college basketball tournament is able to use the high-profile March Madness branding. The change came after an uproar over the embarrassingly inequitable...

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