Portland, Oregon. (AP) – The first female sports bar in the country returns the scenario to one of the blunders of last year NCAA tournament.
The sports bra has acquired the Court With the lines of 3 incompatible points This caused a stir in the matches of the female tournament played in Portland, Oregon, 2024, and installed it as a new bar top.
The way in which the founder of Sports Bra, Jenny Nguyen, sees him, the court attracted more attention to the female tournament, and this attention underlined how the female team can no longer be a reflection afterwards.
And that, she said, is ultimately a good thing.
“For us, it is that the commemoration is in fact to change the story,” said Nguyen. “It’s like the silver lining of this, and in a way put it as a museum piece. And what better place to put it than in the sports bra? ”
Last year, when Portland welcomed Sweet 16 and Elite Eight Games, the court had 3 incompatible lines, with one side Approximately 9 inches of regulation at its top.
Five games were played on the field before the lines were redesigned for the regional final between Uconn and southern California. The NCAA said that error was the result of a human error in the finishing society.
The question of the court was only a series of problems during the 2024 women’s tournament.
In Spokane, Washington, the matches of the round for men and female coincided with a volleyball tournament for young people, forcing certain women’s teams to be housed in state lines in Idaho. The Utah women’s team said there, The players were subjected to racist abuses by a passerby.
In addition, a referee was fired at halftime from an opening match in Raleigh, North Carolina, due to a conflict of interest. Another player was removed from a game Remove a nose drill.
March Madness has been widely exempt from controversy this year on the side of women, which Nguyen considers a positive in the growth of female sports. This is why she made the old court a top to the bar.
“We think it is the coolest story of all time. Some other people might think that it is the biggest error of all time and that it commemorates a mistake and is like a scar on the tournament, and it is simply not the way we see it,” she said.
The sports bra, which opened in 2022, was the first in a Growing number of female sports bars across the countryIncluding Rough & Tumble in Seattle and a Minneapolis bar. With investments by the co-founder of Reddit, Alexis Ohanian, one of the owners of the owners of Angel City FC of the NWSL, the sports bra seeing to develop in additional markets.
Parties of the infamous court can also be incorporated into these future places, said Nguyen.
Similar to 2021, when the inequalities between the masculine and female bodybuilding rooms of the tournament prompted the NCAA to act – it is these incremental battles that lead to a better tournament for all women and their teams. “It’s just a wild ride,” said Nguyen, “but we’re here for that.”
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