Oregon women’s basketball star Sedona Prince virally exposes NCAA

Sedona Prince is like any other college athlete who works hard on and off the court trying to balance school and sports. She is preparing for one of the most stressful, yet exciting, times of the year as March Madness is upon the Oregon women’s basketball team.

But recently, Prince made national headlines and added national media attention to her already-full plate (not literally because, well, have you seen their meals in the bubble?).

Prince has been active on the content creation app TikTok and when it was time to head down to San Antonio, Texas, as a No. 6 seed, she turned her videos into an NCAA flaw-themed series.

The series exposed the NCAA in a big way

Her series started out positive as she posted a video of her journey down to Texas on a private plane with just 20 teammates and coaches. She was excited about the prospect of laying down to sleep in an empty row on a plane which is something no one has experienced.

Then she started showing her meals and how, um, underwhelming they were.

The meals got worse as her series progressed, starting with a decent lunch with sandwiches and finishing up with a mystery meat dinner. But it was the next video that drew national attention. It was the weight room issue. The difference between the men’s and women’s weight room was shocking.

Clearly upset, Prince showed that the women’s “weight room” was literally just a stack of dumbbells and compared it to the men’s which was a huge facility with dozens of weight training options.

Prince points out that the NCAA became aware that people were calling it out for the women’s weight room compared to the men’s and they claimed it was a “no room” issue. Prince debunked that in about three seconds, showing a massive empty room behind the stack of dumbbells.

Not a good look, NCAA.

And good for you, Sedona. It’s always good when a player uses their platform to expose inequalities like these because without being put in the spotlight, the NCAA would never change.

Hopefully the NCAA takes this media firestorm as a sign to change and start using that mound of cash to compensate players the right way and not with microwaved meals and poor workout facilities at the biggest tournaments in their respective sports.

Prince and the Ducks will take on South Dakota on Monday night at 7 p.m. PT.