John Brady Quotes on Night (6 Quotes)

Defensively that was a key for us, because you saw the game (Aldridge) had the night before last. And we knew if he did that against us, we had no chance to win the game. So you've got to compliment Glen specifically and Tyrus Thomas as an assist in the way we defended him today.

I think on any given night, any good college basketball team can beat another one, particularly in a tournament situation.

We played hard all night. I thought we did some very good things on the fly against a talented team tonight. I am happy with the overall effort that we gave.

We're usually 69, 70 percent at the line. If you're not making field goals, the next thing you try to do is try and make it up at the foul line. We had 28 free throws, but we couldn't make those, either. It was that kind of night for us.

Each year brings its own Cinderella types of teams. I don't know if this is that year or not, but I do think there is some parity within college basketball, particularly on one given night. Any good team can beat another one in a tournament situation. But our particular team is quite young.

We did a nice job of handling the first five to seven minutes of the game. We told our guys Duke was going to come out in those first few minutes and try to get us on our heels and that if we could work through that we'd be in good shape. That's what happened. A tone was set and I think they knew they were in for a contest all night.