{"id":70883,"date":"2026-04-04T16:37:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:37:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/geno-auriemma-apologizes-for-uncalled-for-behavior-after-tense-exchange-with-dawn-staley\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T16:37:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T21:37:39","slug":"geno-auriemma-apologizes-for-uncalled-for-behavior-after-tense-exchange-with-dawn-staley","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/geno-auriemma-apologizes-for-uncalled-for-behavior-after-tense-exchange-with-dawn-staley\/","title":{"rendered":"Geno Auriemma apologizes for \u2018uncalled for\u2019 behavior after tense exchange with Dawn Staley"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>UConn coach\u2019s outburst came after Final Four loss<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Auriemma: \u2018No excuse for how I handled\u2019 situation<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>South Carolina coach says she is focused on title game<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>UConn coach Geno Auriemma has apologized for his actions during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/03\/uconn-south-carolina-geno-auriemma-dawn-staley-ucla-texas\">a heated exchange with Dawn Staley<\/a> at the end of the Huskies\u2019 loss to South Carolina in the women\u2019s Final Four.<\/p>\n<p>A visibly upset Auriemma went over to Staley in the final seconds of South Carolina\u2019s 62-48 victory on Friday night and appeared to chastise her. Coaches from both teams had to separate them. When the game finally ended, Auriemma walked off the court to the locker room without going back to shake hands with anyone from South Carolina.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/04\/geno-auriemma-dawn-staley-apology-final-four\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UConn coach\u2019s outburst came after Final Four loss Auriemma: \u2018No excuse for how I handled\u2019 situation South Carolina coach says she is focused on title game UConn coach Geno Auriemma has apologized for his actions during a heated exchange with Dawn Staley at the end of the Huskies\u2019 loss to South Carolina in the women\u2019s &#8230; <a title=\"Geno Auriemma apologizes for \u2018uncalled for\u2019 behavior after tense exchange with Dawn Staley\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/04\/geno-auriemma-apologizes-for-uncalled-for-behavior-after-tense-exchange-with-dawn-staley\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Geno Auriemma apologizes for \u2018uncalled for\u2019 behavior after tense exchange with Dawn Staley\">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-70883","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\/70883","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=70883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}