""For 41 years I've been coaching and, I don't know, 25 Final Fours. The protocol is before the game you meet at halfcourt. Anybody see that before?""
""I waited there for like three minutes. So it is what it is.""
""That's a little disheartening. This is sports, sometimes things like this happen.""
The women's national championship game featured no pregame handshake drama following a confrontation between UConn's Geno Auriemma and South Carolina's Dawn Staley. Auriemma expressed frustration over Staley not following handshake protocol after lineups were announced. Staley had previously embraced UCLA's coach and shook hands with assistants, but did not meet Auriemma at midcourt post-introductions. Auriemma waited for the handshake, later apologized, while Staley expressed disappointment over the incident overshadowing her team's title pursuit.
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