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Refs? Handshakes? Why Geno Auriemma is to blame for post-game blowup with Dawn Staley in UConn loss

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Geno Auriemma's postgame meltdown is entirely his fault

Refs? Handshakes? Why Geno Auriemma is to blame for post-game blowup with Dawn Staley in UConn loss originally appeared on The Sporting News .

Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here . Geno Auriemma issued the groundwork for the post-game verbal altercation with Dawn Staley in the Women's Final Four national semifinal matchup between No. 1 UConn and No.

1 South Carolina for those listening at the end of the third quarter on the ESPN telecast Friday. "There were six calls called that quarter — all of them against us, and they've been beating the s— out of our guys down here the entire game," Auriemma told ESPN sideline reporter Holly Rowe . That's not coach behavior.

That's fan behavior. Once the fouls are being questioned by the losing team, then you knew where this was headed. The Gamecocks beat the Huskies 62-48 at the Mortgage Matchup Center in Phoenix on Friday.

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