"Congrats to Virginia Tech. I think their team is a reflection of their head coach. They're tough, physical, they execute, they stay with the plan, and they're just a very tough-minded team. They had some guys step up for them. (Tyrece) Radford, he's just a really good downhill driver, he made shot after shot. David N'Guessan came off the bench and hurt us... I thought we did a really good job on (Keve) Aluma and (Jalen) Cone. I thought our team really matched the physicality of the game, and I think that's reflected in the offensive rebounds we got, and just the overall way we played. I really liked the way my team adjusted in the second half, I was really disappointed in the first half. One of the things we preach on offense is playing off two feet and shot faking. And it's no disrespect to Virginia Tech, but they shouldn't have nine blocked shots in the first half. A lot of it was us just flying in there trying to score off one foot. In the second half, we went off two feet, shot faked, got them off the floor, and made plays at the basket or got fouled. We didn't shoot free throws as well as we normally do, that probably hurt us. And we didn't get to the ball in both halves, which is kind of surprising as physical as the game was. Late [in the game], they got an offensive rebound when we had the inside position. Aluma got it and scored. We lost (Hunter) Cattoor at the end of the shot clock, he made a three. And then we called a timeout to run a set that was going to be wide open and one of our guys didn't execute. So those are things we've got to clean up moving forward. I'm proud of my team, and we'll keep coaching them and they'll keep playing hard."