Geno Auriemma reflects on heated moment with Dawn Staley: 'We are all human'

Addressing a group of reporters for the first time since the Final Four, UConn women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma said that he feels “dumb” for his heated exchange with South Carolina coach Dawn Staley after UConn’s national semifinal loss.“When I walked into the locker room afterward with the coaches, you are just shaking your head, thinking, ‘Five more seconds, you couldn’t keep it in for five more seconds,'” Auriemma said Monday in an interview with reporters at UConn’s training facility. “You just feel dumb for the way that it played out. We are all human, and we all do dumb (stuff).”Advertisement