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VIRGINIA COACH Pete Gillen
“Duke is a great team, maybe the best in the nation, but I thought we had agreat chance tonight when we tied the score at 30, but we couldn’t get over thehump. We needed some of the veterans to give us a boost. Devin Smith playedgreat, but we needed something more from our experienced players.”
“The end of the first half is a very important part of the game and it was keytonight. If we could have gone into the half down two or four, rather thaneight, it could have been the difference in the outcome of the game.”
“I think our freshmen did a very nice job tonight, giving us some good minuteson national television. Jason Cain did a nice job and Donte Minter wasterrific.”
“There were a lot of bright spots tonight, but we have a ton of work to do ondefense and rebounding.”
“We tried to use our 11 guys against their seven guys and there were somepositives with it, as we wore them down a bit, but we needed to get more out ofthat strategy.”
DUKE COACH Mike Krzyzewski
“Virginia had a great effort against us tonight. They came right at us.They’ve got a deep team. We started playing better defensively around theeight-minute mark and limited their penetration better.”
“Virginia penetrated very well and got us in serious foul trouble early. Butwe got great minutes from Nick Horvath and Lee Melchionni.”
“In the second half we executed very well. Sheldon Williams played very well.Chris Duhon played very well.”
(On Luol Deng’s play)
“It takes a little while to get used to conference play. It’s just different in conference. It just means more. He’s got to get used to that.”
(On going to Sheldon Williams in the second half)
“One of the reasons we went to him was just to get him involved in the game. He only played seven minutes in the first half, and we didn’t start him in the second half. Going to him was our way of getting him involved, and he really got back in the game.”