Color us unimpressed the NCAA gives March Madness players Wi-Fi

Wow! Amazing! Such mind-blowing generosity! Did you know the NCAA provides free hotel Wi-Fi access for March Madness players? 

Well, the NCAA does provide free hotel Wi-Fi access for March Madness players and it really wants you to know it provides free hotel Wi-Fi access for March Madness players. 

Now excuse us as we convulse in laughter. 

This all started when UNC-Asheville guard Trae Bryant posted a since-deleted tweet that read: "We need wifi at the hotel. Have some school work to do @NCAA"

Now, the NCAA constantly stresses that college basketball players are student-athletes, and therefore amateurs, and therefore not entitled to any piece of the billion-dollar March Madness pie. Given this, Bryant's tweet about apparently not being able to get online to his homework became a thing late Wednesday. 

Then the NCAA sent out this rather odd, defensive and petty tweet.

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Hmm. A couple questions. Doesn't Wi-Fi pretty much come standard at most hotels these days? Or is there some special network just for March Madness players? 

We reached out to the NCAA for clarification, but have yet to hear back. 

So to recap: March Madness players power a billion-dollar business yet are barred from receiving any compensation beyond scholarships for their labor. If they are deemed to break NCAA rules, the NCAA can strip their college eligibility and hurt their future professional chances. 

But they get free Wi-Fi! 

So let's just, like, call it even? Not exactly, NCAA. Not exactly.