Connecticut women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma issued a second apology Tuesday night for his behavior after the Huskies’ loss to South Carolina in the Final Four last week. This time he mentioned Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley by name, something he did not do the first time he apologized for a heated confrontation between the two…
South Carolina coach Dawn Staley said she has spoken with UConn coach Geno Auriemma after the two had a heated exchange at the women’s Final Four on Friday. Staley, whose Gamecocks beat Auriemma and UConn before losing to UCLA in Sunday’s title game, is urging everyone to move on. Staley released a statement on Tuesday…
The once-unbeaten team has fallen. There will be a new champion of women’s college basketball. Just 40 regulation minutes separate heroism from heartbreak, inscription from blank space. No one wants to be on the sad side of a confetti drop. UCLA arrives in pursuit of its first NCAA title, while South Carolina goes for a…
PHOENIX — If Dawn Staley and South Carolina beat UCLA in the national title game Sunday, she would become the fourth coach to win four championships. UCLA coach Cori Close is looking for her first. After 15 years of building the Bruins to a program that could get to the Final Four, and a year later, the…
PHOENIX — The inadvertent consequence of dropping elite defensive squads into a Final Four in the desert is that the offense dries up. Add in the flint embedded on the sport’s grandest stage, and a brush fire is bound to spark somewhere. Which is how we found UConn head coach Geno Auriemma ripping into South…
South Carolina’s stunning upset win over UConn in the Final Four on Friday night was overshadowed by a bizarre incident between Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley and Huskies coach Geno Auriemma — two of the all-time greats — just before the final buzzer. The Gamecocks were up by 14 and running out the clock. Before UConn…
