{"id":71108,"date":"2026-04-07T15:57:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/dawn-staley-time-to-turn-the-page-on-final-four-skirmish-with-geno-auriemma\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T15:57:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T20:57:18","slug":"dawn-staley-time-to-turn-the-page-on-final-four-skirmish-with-geno-auriemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/dawn-staley-time-to-turn-the-page-on-final-four-skirmish-with-geno-auriemma\/","title":{"rendered":"Dawn Staley: Time to \u2018turn the page\u2019 on Final Four skirmish with Geno Auriemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Staley says she has \u2018great deal of respect\u2019 for UConn coach<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Auriemma had issued apology to South Carolina staff<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>South Carolina women\u2019s basketball coach Dawn Staley says it is time to move past <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/03\/uconn-south-carolina-geno-auriemma-dawn-staley-ucla-texas\">her Final Four skirmish with UConn coach Geno Auriemma<\/a> that became the talk of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>Staley released a statement on South Carolina\u2019s X account on Tuesday in which she expressed her respect for Auriemma and said the two have spoken since South Carolina\u2019s 62-48 victory in the Final Four on Friday night. The season ended with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/live\/2026\/apr\/05\/ncaa-womens-national-championship-south-carolina-ucla-live-score\">UCLA\u2019s runaway 79-51 win over South Carolina<\/a> in Sunday\u2019s national championship game.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/07\/dawn-staley-geno-auriemma-statement-final-four-skirmish\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staley says she has \u2018great deal of respect\u2019 for UConn coach Auriemma had issued apology to South Carolina staff South Carolina women\u2019s basketball coach Dawn Staley says it is time to move past her Final Four skirmish with UConn coach Geno Auriemma that became the talk of the tournament. Staley released a statement on South &#8230; <a title=\"Dawn Staley: Time to \u2018turn the page\u2019 on Final Four skirmish with Geno Auriemma\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/07\/dawn-staley-time-to-turn-the-page-on-final-four-skirmish-with-geno-auriemma\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Dawn Staley: Time to \u2018turn the page\u2019 on Final Four skirmish with Geno Auriemma\">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-71108","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\/71108","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=71108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}