; Whereas, despite being subject to title IX, the NCAA provided inequitable benefits and services to women’s basketball teams in its 2021 Division I Tournaments, including inferior publicity, promotions, equipment, supplies, food, facilities, travel accommodations, and health care protocols and resources; Whereas these disparities are contrary to the letter and spirit of title IX, undermine efforts to ensure gender equity in sports and society writ large, and hold women and girls back from reaching their full potential; Whereas, on March 25, 2021, the NCAA announced the commissioning of a comprehensive review of gender equity issues in NCAA sports that was completed by the independent law firm Kaplan Hecker & Fink (Kaplan), and the results of their independent review were released in two separate reports on August 2, 2021, and October 25, 2021, which found that gender inequities at the NCAA stem from the structure and systems of the NCAA itself and provided an extensive list of recommended actions the NCAA should take to address these inequities; Whereas more than a year after the release of those reports, the NCAA has made progress on some of Kaplan’s recommendations, but has either not yet begun consideration or declined to implement others, including restructuring NCAA leadership so that the Vice President of Women’s Basketball reports directly to the President; and Whereas the NCAA leadership should make it a top priority to expeditiously and thoroughly consider all recommendations from the Kaplan report to ensure meaningful change: Now, therefore, be it