Smith says locker room dancing was just a spontaneous thing

Tubby Smith wasn't in on it.

Apparently, this is just the Gophers coach's reaction to a much-needed win, some locker room fun and, hey, a catchy song.

In the locker room video that's gone viral, Smith appeared to instigate a dance party to Ke$ha's "Die Young," a meaningful song based on the matchup.

Smith led with a nice solo breakdown, which was promptly followed by an excited team jumping and dancing.

"He surprised me," Andre Hollins said. I didn't know what was going on."

Smith had been giving his postgame talk when assistant coach Vince Taylor yelled "Hit it," Hollins said.

The head coach took off immediately shimmying side to side to the glee of his players.

Trevor Mbakwe took it a step further, lifting his coach off the ground and THROWING HIM OVER HIS SHOULDER IN A FIREMAN'S CARRY.

When I asked Smith whether Donna (his wife) got nervous when she saw that in the video, Smith shook his head.

"I freaked out," he said. "That's what I was more concerned -- that he would drop me on my head or something. But he's a pretty strong guy!"

Said Williams: "We like to see coach happy like that, and in order to see him happy like that, we've got to keep winning. So, we're going to come in every day with the same mindset, we're going to come in like we're on a losing streak to work every day. We're just going to keep coming going out there and playing hard so maybe you guys will get a couple more videos of coach dancing."

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