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Did you all see Head Coaches Geno Auriemma and Muffet McGraw dual interviews on yesterday? That was straight hate, disdain, and disrespect toward each other and I loved every minute of it. Muffet McGraw was pissed that UCONN's Breanna Stewart got National Player of the Year and let that be known. I never seen two coaches not hold back shat in an interview. I can't wait for this game.
No love lost between Connecticut, Notre Dame basketball coaches
NASHVILLE — If there ever were a sports matchup with organic hype, this is it: the first meeting of two undefeated teams in the final of an NCAA women's basketball tournament.
Add to that the sass, snark and sniping the coaches of those teams indulged in Monday, and Tuesday's game between Connecticut and Notre Dame has taken on an atmosphere that is multiplying the hype exponentially.
Notre Dame's Muffet McGraw said "hate" and "lack of civility" would be fair ways to describe her team's rivalry with Connecticut. Its coach, Geno Auriemma, delivered ripostes with a velvet shiv, an out-of-character approach that led him to say, "Who would have ever thought I would take the high road?
"Whenever I see the numbers and the things we've done, I kind of just shake my head," Auriemma said. "I would hate us too."
When the teams left the Big East Conference last year, each for a different conference, McGraw said Auriemma rebuffed Fighting Irish efforts to schedule a meeting this season.
"Let me just say it's not nice to fib during Lent," he replied.
Her reaction?
"I try not to get down to his level," McGraw said.
Her relationship with Auriemma: "We don't have a relationship."
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