In a move to help close the pay gap between men and women in college sports, the NCAA will now pay Division I women's basketball teams who play in March Madness games starting this year.

The Big South joked it is considering adding a “Toddler Timeout Zone” to “train proper pint-sized court storming etiquette and other fandom fundamentals.”

In a historic vote Wednesday at the NCAA convention in Nashville, the organization approved a plan to pay women's basketball teams for making the NCAA Tournament. Men's basketball teams have been reaping the benefits of the same revenue sharing plan for many years.

Beginning with the 2025 NCAA Tournament, women’s college basketball will finally receive financial “units,” just as the men’s teams have for years. Units are multi-million dollar payments the NCAA awards to conferences based on the number of games a given team plays in the March Madness tournament.

Women’s basketball teams will be paid for playing games in the NCAA Tournament starting this year, something that men’s teams have benefitted from for years.

NCAA members unanimously voted to introduce financial rewards — as it has for years with the men's tournament — starting this spring.