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STORRS, Conn., Dec. 22 (UPI) -- Connecticut women's basketball Coach Geno Auriemma Wednesday sought to clarify comments about gender he made after his team set an NCAA winning streak record.
In his press conference following the Huskies' defeat of Florida State Tuesday for their 89th consecutive victory -- breaking an NCAA Division I record long held by the UCLA men's team -- Auriemma contended his team's accomplishments weren't being valued by male basketball fans.
He complained of "all the miserable bastards that follow men's basketball and don't want us to break the record."
Wednesday he told USA Today he wasn't "going to call anybody any names" and hadn't been seeking additional publicity for his team when made the comments, but was instead urging that "everybody to admire what these kids do and how they do it and how hard it is to do it.
"Like or not like it," Auriemma told the newspaper, "we made you pay attention. If you want to go back, go back. But for this little period of time, you paid attention. And you didn't have to, but you did."
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