Geno Auriemma felt 'like a dumbass' after Final Four blowup with Dawn Staley, not worried about impacts to legacy
"I did what I did, I apologized for it and moved on."
Geno Auriemma was very harsh on himself as he walked into the locker room after their Final Four loss to South Carolina. It wasn’t the loss that was dominating the moment, though. Instead, it was his interaction and blowup with South Carolina coach Dawn Staley.
“When I walked in the locker room afterward, the coaches were shaking their heads, ‘You couldn’t hold it in for five more second? ’” Auriemma said on Monday, via the Hartford Courant . “And you feel like a dumbass for the way it played out.
We’re all human and we all do dumb [stuff]. ” Auriemma had to be physically pulled away from Staley in the final seconds of the Huskies’ 62-48 loss to the Gamecocks in the Final Four. The two got into it, and Auriemma ended up walking off the court on his own without shaking the Gamecocks’ hands.
Geno Auriemma exchanged words with Dawn Staley in the final seconds of South Carolina and UConn’s Final Four matchup. pic. twitter.