How Dawn Staley’s salary raise had a ripple effect throughout women’s basketball‎

Five years ago, when Dawn Staley returned to Columbia, S.C., from the 2021 NCAA Tournament in the bubble, she was left with a sinking feeling about how to talk with her players about the inequities the women’s teams had experienced during the tournament. That year, the NCAA made headlines as disparities between the men’s and women’s accommodations, facilities and resources were exposed. Staley was the first coach to publicly call out then-NCAA president Mark Emmert by name in a tweet, and though