South Carolina head coach Dawn Staley has always been able to make light of any situation, even getting routed in the NCAA championship game.

South Carolina women’s basketball lost to the UConn Huskies in the national championship on Sunday. The defeat was a disappointing end to another great season for the Gamecocks, one in which they finished with a top-2 ranking in the AP poll for the fourth year in a row.

We lost to a very, very good basketball team. They beat our ass, but they didn’t make us like it. There’s a difference.”