Geno Auriemma ( U-CONN ), Dawn Staley ( South Carolina ):- Hard Fought Game

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Videos

Game

Highlights

  1. South Carolina Just Nudges Out UConn To Come Away With The Win | Feb. 5 | South Carolina vs UConn |
    • Videos
      • Video #1
        Channel:- HoopWatch Live
        Date Published:- 2023-February-5th
        Date Added:- 2023-February-9th
        Date Demoted:- 2023-March-26th
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Officiating

Coach – Geno Auriemma

  1. Geno loses his cool. A sip of water might’ve helped….
    • Videos
      • Video #1
        Channel:- JD’s Sports Tweets ( @JDsSportsTweets )
        Date Published:- 2023-February-5th
        Date Added:- 2023-February-9th
        Link

Post Games Interview

GameDay

Sunday 2023-Feb-5th
Coach – Geno Auriemma
  1. Geno Auriemma unhappy with officiating in UConn’s loss to South Carolina | UConn Post Game
    • Profile
      • UConn head coach Geno Auriemma was unhappy with both his team’s effort in the second quarter as well as the officiating in the Huskies’ 81-77 loss to the #1 ranked South Carolina Gamecocks on Sunday afternoon.
      • Coach Auriemma met the media after the game, and discussed where his Huskies need to improve, as well as the technical foul he received.
    • Videos
      • Video #1
        Channel:- SNY
        Date Published:- 2023-February-5th
        Date Added:- 2023-February-9th
        Link
    • Spoken On
      • Lou Lopez Sénéchal
Athletes ( Lou Lopez Sénéchal, Aaliyah Edwards, Aubrey Griffin )
  1. Geno Auriemma unhappy with officiating in UConn’s loss to South Carolina | UConn Post Game
    • Profile
      • UConn’s Lou Lopez Sénéchal, Aaliyah Edwards, Aubrey Griffin talk with the media after falling to No. 1 South Carolina.
    • Videos
      • Video #1
        Channel:- Storrs Central
        Date Published:- 2023-February-5th
        Date Added:- 2023-February-9th
        Link

A few days later

Wednesday 2023-Feb-8th
Coach – Geno Auriemma
  1. Geno Auriemma reacts to Dawn Staley’s comments, UConn’s back-to-back losses | UConn Post Game | SNY
    • Profile
      • UConn head coach Geno Auriemma reacts to the Huskies’ first back-to-back losses since 1993 under his coaching.
      • Geno also discusses Dawn Staley’s comments after Sunday’s game against the Gamecocks saying he was aiming his comments towards the officials and not Dawn and her team.
    • Videos
      • Video #1
        Channel:- SNY
        Date Published:- 2023-February-8th
        Date Added:- 2023-February-9th
        Link

 

South Carolina ( Gamecocks )

Post Games Interview

A few days later

Wednesday 2023-Feb-8th
Coach – Dawn Staley
  1. A full look at Dawn Staley’s defense of her team following Geno Auriemma’s comments
    • Profile
      • After UConn head women’s basketball coach Geno Auriemma suggested USC’s defense went beyond being physical, Coach Staley returned serve.
    • Videos
      • Video #1
        Channel:- News 19 WLTX
        Date Published:- 2023-February-8th
        Date Added:- 2023-February-9th
        Link
    • Spoken On
      • Geno Auriemma

 

In Words

U-CONN

Coach – Geno Auriemma

Wednesday 2023-February-8th

Yahoo Sports
Dawn Staley calls out Geno Auriemma, UConn after criticism following win: ‘I’m sick of it’

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Bruises

“I didn’t say anything for a long, long, long time,” Auriemma said. “And I just felt like — you want me to bring Lou in and see the bruises? It’s just appalling what teams do to her now. It’s not basketball anymore. It’s not basketball anymore. So that was the problem.”

Officiating

“If people have been paying attention seriously, I’ve been making that statement for 20-some years. Since Diana [Taurasi] was playing for us … In each one of those instances, everything I said was directed squarely at the officials, and not one other coach said a word,” Auriemma said. “Because you have a right to coach your team anyway you want. I have enough trouble coaching my own team.”But I can have a say in how officials call a game … If I’m never allowed to question an official without someone thinking I’m casting aspirations toward their team, that’s just asinine. If you’ve been paying attention, I’ve been saying that for 20 years.”

 

South Carolina

Coach – Dawn Staley

Tuesday 2023-February-7th

Yahoo News
Dawn Staley calls out Geno Auriemma, UConn after criticism following win: ‘I’m sick of it’

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Uplifting The Game of Basketball

“They play the right way, and approach it the right way whether they win or lose,” she said of her team, via The Associated Press. “We don’t denounce anybody’s play. They are always uplifting the game of women’s basketball, and when we were getting our heads beat in by UConn for all those years, I said nothing.”

Wednesday 2023-February-8th

Greenville News
Dawn Staley reveals strategy behind how she responded to Geno Auriemma’s complaints about South Carolina

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Narrative

Staley said Wednesday that she was frustrated by Auriemma’s complaints about South Carolina’s physicality because she does not want that “narrative” to impact the Gamecocks negatively in future matchups. She said she wanted to share her perspective on the game to counter Auriemma’s claim that it was one-sided.

“I just don’t like narratives that could hurt us in the future, so that’s why I addressed it,” Staley explained. “If it was just a one-off and I thought it was the end of it, but I don’t think it’s the end of it. If we have to play them again, that’s out there and I just want people to know that this is us and this is how we play … Even if everybody fouled out, I wouldn’t change how we play and approach the game.”

 

Human Beings

On her radio call-in show, Staley defended her team as “some of the best human beings that the game has ever had,” and said she felt that Auriemma’s comments invalidated the Gamecocks’ success. Sunday’s victory was the first in program history on the Huskies’ home court, and South Carolina also beat UConn last season in the 2022 NCAA Championship game.”I have never said one derogatory word about UConn or anybody else that’s beat us over the years,” Staley said. “I’ve only said that (UConn is) the standard, and I continue to say that they are the standard of college women’s basketball on the court.”

“He said his piece and I’m going to say my piece,” Staley said. “I’m going to protect our program and out team to make sure they’re OK … From a human being standpoint to see your name and your play described as that, it can play on their psyche. I’m just going to make sure it doesn’t.”

My Quick Take

  1. South Carolina Gamecocks
    • Lets face it the South Carolina Gamecocks play very hard
    • Covered same here
      • College Basketball – Women:- South Carolina ( Gamecocks ) Versus Maryland ( Terrapins ) – 2022-November-11th
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Referenced Work

  1. Tweeter
    • JD’s Sports Tweets ( @JDsSportsTweets )
      • Geno loses his cool. A sip of water might’ve helped….
        Link
  2. Yahoo Sports
    • Dawn Staley calls out Geno Auriemma, UConn after criticism following win: ‘I’m sick of it’
      Link
  3. Greenville News
    • Dawn Staley reveals strategy behind how she responded to Geno Auriemma’s complaints about South Carolina
      Link

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