{"id":70844,"date":"2026-04-03T21:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/geno-auriemma-and-dawn-staley-have-tense-postgame-exchange-after-south-carolina-shocks-uconn-in-final-four\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T21:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:05:18","slug":"geno-auriemma-and-dawn-staley-have-tense-postgame-exchange-after-south-carolina-shocks-uconn-in-final-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/geno-auriemma-and-dawn-staley-have-tense-postgame-exchange-after-south-carolina-shocks-uconn-in-final-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley have tense postgame exchange after South Carolina shocks UConn in Final Four"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Gamecocks end Huskies\u2019 winning streak at 54 games<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Auriemma appears to skip postgame handshake line<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Staley: \u2018If I did something wrong to Geno, I had no idea\u2019<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UConn coach Geno Auriemma and South Carolina coach Dawn Staley had a heated exchange on the sideline after the Gamecocks beat the undefeated Huskies 62-48 in Friday night\u2019s semi-final of the NCAA Women\u2019s Tournament. South Carolina ended UConn\u2019s winning streak at 54 games and secured a return trip to the national championship game.<\/p>\n<p>As the two went to shake hands with 0.1 seconds left, Auriemma appeared to go to shake Staley\u2019s hand and began yelling in her direction. Staley responded with words of her own. Assistant coaches went to calm the two sides, and UConn inbounded the ball to end the game.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/03\/uconn-south-carolina-geno-auriemma-dawn-staley-ucla-texas\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gamecocks end Huskies\u2019 winning streak at 54 games Auriemma appears to skip postgame handshake line Staley: \u2018If I did something wrong to Geno, I had no idea\u2019 UConn coach Geno Auriemma and South Carolina coach Dawn Staley had a heated exchange on the sideline after the Gamecocks beat the undefeated Huskies 62-48 in Friday night\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley have tense postgame exchange after South Carolina shocks UConn in Final Four\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/geno-auriemma-and-dawn-staley-have-tense-postgame-exchange-after-south-carolina-shocks-uconn-in-final-four\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley have tense postgame exchange after South Carolina shocks UConn in Final Four\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}