{"id":565398,"date":"2026-04-05T04:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565398\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T04:45:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T04:45:13","slug":"lip-readers-decipher-heated-geno-auriemma-dawn-staley-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/565398\/","title":{"rendered":"Lip readers decipher heated Geno Auriemma-Dawn Staley exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple of lip readers have tried to decipher <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/happened-between-dawn-staley-geno-011449958.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:what happened between UConn coach Geno Auriemma and South Carolina coach Dawn Staley;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;what happened between UConn coach Geno Auriemma and South Carolina coach Dawn Staley&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">what happened between UConn coach Geno Auriemma and South Carolina coach Dawn Staley<\/a> on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/last-time-uconn-womens-basketball-010425984.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Staley&#039;s South Carolina team defeated Auriemma&#039;s UConn team;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Staley&#039;s South Carolina team defeated Auriemma&#039;s UConn team&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Staley&#8217;s South Carolina team defeated Auriemma&#8217;s UConn team<\/a> in Friday&#8217;s Final Four game in Phoenix. Afterward, the two got into a heated exchange that caused Auriemma to storm off the court without postgame handshakes.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>A couple of eagle-eyed lip readers seemed to clock the exchange as <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/geno-auriemma-blasted-fans-meltdown-012912262.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Auriemma;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Auriemma&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Auriemma<\/a> being mad at Staley not shaking his hand pregame, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ForTheWin\/status\/2040246748984025538?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:which the two clearly did;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;which the two clearly did&quot;}\" class=\"link \">which the two clearly did<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/dawn-staley-reacts-bizarre-geno-013912561.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:Staley;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Staley&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Staley<\/a> seemingly pushed against that accusation in the moment.<\/p>\n<p>More lip readings should come out soon, but here&#8217;s your first glimpse at what might have gone down.<\/p>\n<p>What an ugly moment to cap an awesome game.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on For The Win: <a href=\"https:\/\/ftw.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/ncaaw\/2026\/04\/03\/lip-readers-geno-auriemma-dawn-staley-final-four-exchange\/89461879007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Lip readers decipher Geno Auriemma-Dawn Staley Final Four exchange;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Lip readers decipher Geno Auriemma-Dawn Staley Final Four exchange&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Lip readers decipher Geno Auriemma-Dawn Staley Final Four exchange<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A couple of lip readers have tried to decipher what happened between UConn coach Geno Auriemma and South&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565399,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[133472,2083,37762,99,434],"class_list":{"0":"post-565398","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wnba","8":"tag-auriemma","9":"tag-dawn-staley","10":"tag-geno-auriemma","11":"tag-sports","12":"tag-wnba"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=565398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}