"It doesn't need to be this way. Sending thoughts and prayers to my teammates who have kids there. To the parents who have to worry about their children...we're the only country that lives this way. The college football cycle has been in the news a million times, and are we going to report about this? Like it's the guns. We're the only country that lives this way,"
"She continued, "Parents should not have to be worried about their kids. I have a teammate who has a daughter who is in the basement of the library because she doesn't know what's going on there, and she's flying there tomorrow.""
"With tears filling her eyes, Gottlieb said she was "proud of the fight that we had," but her team's "attention to detail wasn't good enough to win the game or compete as well as we wanted to compete against them." In her team's first loss this season at home, she said they will "get better from it.""
USC head coach Lindsay Gottlieb learned after the game about a mass shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and eight others wounded. She said she discovered the news in a group chat with former Brown teammates and expressed sorrow and frustration, questioning U.S. gun culture and noting parents' fears during final exams. Gottlieb described a teammate's daughter sheltering in a library basement and preparing to fly to Rhode Island. She emphasized safety and peace as priorities over basketball and later assessed her team's loss to UConn, citing poor attention to detail and affirming the team will improve.
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