Geno and Dawn exchange heated words as South Carolina advances (0:34) Geno Auriemma and Dawn Staley exchange heated words as South Carolina advances to the national championship game. (0:34) Associated Press May 4, 2026, 06:40 PM ET STORRS, Conn. -- A little more than a month after Geno Auriemma's UConn women's basketball team's title bid ended with a Final Four loss to South Carolina, the coach reflected on his heated postgame exchange with Gamecocks coach Dawn Staley. "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. "You just feel dumb for the way that it played out. We are all human, and we all do dumb [stuff]." Auriemma went over to Staley in the final seconds of South Carolina's 62-48 victory in Phoenix and appeared to chastise her. Coaches from both teams had to separate them.…