Adia Barnes, the head coach of the women’s basketball team has refused to apologise for showing two middle fingers and saying the f-word post the team’s victory against the top-seeded UConn team. 

Arizona Wildcats won by 69-59 in the NCAA tournament against UConn on Friday and her heat in the moment response was caught on camera by ESPN. 

In a press conference on Saturday, Barnes said she is not going to apologise for being herself. “I don’t feel like I need to apologize,” she said. 

She explained, “It’s what I felt with my team at the moment, and I wouldn’t take it back. We’ve gone to war together, we look around the room — and we looked around the circle, we believe in each other. So, I’m in those moments, and that’s how I am, so I don’t apologize for doing that, but I’m just me, and I just have to be me,” reported Fox News. 

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The head coach admitted that she did not realize the cameras were recording her but maintained her stance by saying, “I’m just myself.”

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Barnes further added, “There’s no strategy to it, “There’s no plan to be a certain way, I just do what I feel, which is good and bad. Because you saw at the end of the game, I honestly had a moment with my team — and I thought it was a more intimate huddle — and I said something to my team something I truly felt, and I know they felt.”

Arizona Wildcats were defeated by Stanford Cardinals in the final on Sunday.