Here is some of what Krzyzewski had to say about his team’s victory.
Opening remarks
I’m really excited about the way we played this afternoon. I thought our kids, after playing the late game last night, and Virginia played us so well… we seemed to have a lot of energy. Our defense was outstanding. We got one of the best halves we’ve had al season, and I think that carried over into the second half.
On his backcourt
Daniel (Ewing) was a big key again and with he and Chris (Duhon) – defensively – we made a change. We put Chris on (Rashad) McCants and Daniel on (Raymond) Felton and I thought defensively we shut them down and they did not have a big number games. I thought that was one of the keys to the game.
On being in the title game again
We’re excited about playing in the championship game. We’re going to play against a really hungry outstanding team.
On the adjustments made after last Sunday’s loss to UNC
Defensively… just a couple of subtle things. Offensively, we just executed a little better. We started the game making just one pass and shooting. Once we started making three passes, it was like how we played against Virginia in Charlottesville (Va) about a month ago. That was one of the things we did not do in Chapel Hill. Therefore, we were a quick offensive team and they didn’t have to play much defense and we were really rested on offense. Today they had to play defense, and they can, they are a good defensive team, but that hurts the offensive team. There was nothing drastic (on the changes). We should have been doing that anyway.
Senior writer Andrew Jones is in his seventh year with Inside Carolina. He also covers the ACC for the Wilmington Star-News/Morning Star and can be reached via e-mail at: AndrewJones@AM630.net.