"Four incredible games. The last couple, especially, they've been like a well-oiled machine," Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. "They're a team that you need two or three days' preparation for, to put in your defensive game plan. And it still might not work.

"They're the team they thought they were going to be at the beginning of the year. … They probably got tougher and built more character and became so close. And it shows up in these last 15 games or so that they've played."

"They have such good movement," Krzyzewski said. "When you're going against incredible movement, you have to have incredible talk. That's the toughest thing to teach a young team defensively, is constant communication.

"Mike, he's such a good coach. Their offense is very precise."

Krzyzewski spoke to Murphy in the tunnel.

"It really starts with the energy that Murphy gives them and the leadership that he gives them," Krzyzewski said. "He's a tough player.

Just wow. Look, I wanted to
congratulate -- those kids deserved -- they played
lights-out basketball and have played lights-out basketball
in order to put themselves in a position -- look, they were
2-7 at one time in our conference. Look, in my profession I
respect the other guy, and they deserve the utmost
respect, and that kid is their leader. He's a tough player.
He's a tough player, and I wanted to make sure that he
knew that Duke University feels -- Duke basketball feels
that way about him.

"We got beat by some really good competitors tonight."

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