{"id":70580,"date":"2016-03-22T12:41:58","date_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.uscho.com\/?p=70580"},"modified":"2016-03-22T12:41:58","modified_gmt":"2016-03-22T17:41:58","slug":"ncaa-apologizes-for-womens-championship-hats-featuring-the-mens-frozen-four-logo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/2016\/03\/22\/ncaa-apologizes-for-womens-championship-hats-featuring-the-mens-frozen-four-logo\/","title":{"rendered":"NCAA apologizes for women&#8217;s championship hats featuring the men&#8217;s Frozen Four logo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The NCAA has apologized for the men&#8217;s Frozen Four logo appearing on the championship hats given to Minnesota after the Golden Gophers won the women&#8217;s Frozen Four on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, the NCAA called it &#8220;inadvertent&#8221; but something that should have been caught before the hats were handed out.<\/p>\n<p>The issue was brought to wide attention Monday when championship game color commentator and former U.S. Olympian and Harvard player AJ Mleczko Griswold tweeted a photo:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Women&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NCAA?src=hash\">#NCAA<\/a> hats given to Nat&#8217;l Champ <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GopherWHockey\">@GopherWHockey<\/a> in Durham, NH. With men&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FrozenFour?src=hash\">#FrozenFour<\/a> logo. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/insulting?src=hash\">#insulting<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vL8XUDtovH\">pic.twitter.com\/vL8XUDtovH<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; AJ Mleczko Griswold (@AJMleczko) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJMleczko\/status\/711976194011484160\">March 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script charset=\"utf-8\" type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\"><\/script>The hat mistake drew scorn on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\"><p>. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJMleczko\">@AJMleczko<\/a> and yet we all still get equal opportunities ???? <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/TitleIX?src=hash\">#TitleIX<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NCAA?src=hash\">#NCAA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Hilary Knight (@Hilary_Knight) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Hilary_Knight\/status\/711998103302176768\">March 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJMleczko\">@AJMleczko<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GopherWHockey\">@GopherWHockey<\/a> freakin insult! <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/girlscanplay?src=hash\">#girlscanplay<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Georgie Catalano (@goaliefitness) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/goaliefitness\/status\/712004237715066880\">March 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-conversation=\"none\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AJMleczko\">@AJMleczko<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GopherWHockey\">@GopherWHockey<\/a> That&#8217;s typical and idiotic at the same time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Brian (@bsnider_22) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bsnider_22\/status\/711991275512160256\">March 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>In response to a question from USCHO about the mistake, the NCAA issued a statement:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We sincerely regret providing a championships hat with the men&#8217;s logo on the side panel to the University of Minnesota&#8217;s women&#8217;s ice hockey team on Sunday following its championship victory at the Women&#8217;s Frozen Four. This was inadvertent but should have been noticed and addressed. We are sending the Minnesota women&#8217;s ice hockey team new 2016 championship hats, which they have rightly earned. We apologize to the university, the athletics department and especially to the Golden Gophers championship women&#8217;s ice hockey student-athletes for this mistake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>NCAA championship logos <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncaa.org\/championships\/championship-logos\" target=\"_blank\">got a makeover this season<\/a>, and the women&#8217;s Frozen Four logo has the same shape as the men&#8217;s Frozen Four logo.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">These are the logos for the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s Frozen Four this season. I liked when they were unique. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/OK2Ndt0ch5\">pic.twitter.com\/OK2Ndt0ch5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8212; Todd Milewski (@ToddMilewski) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ToddMilewski\/status\/712015232399384576\">March 21, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement, the NCAA called it &#8220;inadvertent&#8221; but something that should have been caught before the hats were handed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":140328,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NCAA apologizes for women&#039;s championship hats featuring the men&#039;s Frozen Four logo - College Hockey | USCHO.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a statement, the NCAA called it &quot;inadvertent&quot; but something that should have been caught before the hats were handed out.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70580\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NCAA apologizes for women&#039;s championship hats featuring the men&#039;s Frozen Four logo - College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"In a statement, the NCAA called it &quot;inadvertent&quot; but something that should have been caught before the hats were handed out.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70580\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"College Hockey | USCHO.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/OfficialUSCHO\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2016-03-22T17:41:58+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.uscho.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/uscho_featured-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Todd D. 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