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Financially Overlooked: Gender and Money in College Sports

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By The George-Anne contributor

With NCAA March Madness ending recently, it seems that we will be without college basketball for quite some time now.

Where did your mind go after reading that statement? Most likely, it went to the University of North Carolina’s championship win over Gonzaga in men’s college basketball on Monday.

Without specifying which gender in relation to March Madness, the majority of readers more than likely overlooked South Carolina’s 67-55 win over Mississippi State in the women’s college championship game on Sunday.

In sports, this phenomenon of overlooking women’s sports occurs all too often.