If it's 1 vs. 2 or 21 vs. 22, with the Maryland-Duke game for the last 16 years, all that other stuff is meaningless. It's a very, very competitive game.

245

It was so difficult to get there and get so close and wonder if we'll ever have the opportunity to get back there again. It took a while to get over it.

235

I thought we came out with good levels of intensity and aggressiveness. For a first game, we played pretty well, but we have a lot of areas to improve. We'll take this one and move on to next week against a very good Villanova team.

197

It just kind of takes the bite of Saturday out a little bit. We don't have all week to have that hangover on us. We had a nice win today.

178

We have a different sense of confidence going into this year. We know we're going to get everybody's best, very similar to our basketball team. We go from the hunter to the hunted. That's something we have to understand and be able to take it a notch higher.

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