Some college basketball players taking part in the men’s NCAA basketball tournament on Friday pushed a knee during the national anthem before their games began.
Players in Colgate and Ohio State were seen kneeling during the national anthem before their game. Colgate, a number 14 seed, was getting no. 3 to tackle Arkansas. Ohio State players were seen kneeling before their game against Oral Roberts. According to the Associated Press, players from Virginia Tech, Florida and Drexel also knelt before their games.
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College basketball players began kneeling during the national anthem this season to protest racial injustice and police brutality. But there are still a number of problems since the start of the season.
Before games played Thursday and Friday, players in Michigan, Rutgers, and Iowa encouraged the NCAA to end amateurism so that student-athletes could benefit from their names, images, and parables. Those players tweeted their demands to the NCAA with the #NotNCAAProperty.
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Players also hit the NCAA for the difference between the bubble setup at the Indianapolis site, where the men play, and the San Antonio site, where the women play.
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Photos and videos were circulated on social media Thursday and Friday showing the differences in weight rooms, food choices and weight bags that men and women get during the tournament.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.