Is it time for men to start playing women’s basketball?

Published April 10, 2024 9:49am ET



University of South Carolina coach Dawn Staley completed a magical championship season. Her team went undefeated, and she won her second college basketball championship in three years and third since 2017. She is unquestionably one of the sport’s greatest coaches of all time. 

However, she won those titles coaching a women’s team against other women in women’s basketball. She would not have won any of those titles if she coached against a team of men, particularly against a team of men claiming to be women. Despite this, Staley made an inexplicable comment over the weekend before her team’s championship game against the University of Iowa.

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