NCAA Men's Regional Semifinals and Finals: Anaheim Thursday, March 24, 2016 Anaheim, California that part of your game down. GRAYSON ALLEN: I mean, they're an athletic team and that plays into their defense. So I mean, they did a Brandon Ingram good job defensively. I thought we also missed some Duke shots around the rim. Could have gone up stronger to finish, but also credit to them for being there and going Duke - 68, Oregon - 82 up to challenge us.

THE MODERATOR: We are joined by Head Coach Q. Brandon, what surprised you most about Mike Krzyzewski, Grayson Allen and Brandon Ingram. Oregon tonight? Coach, an opening statement? BRANDON INGRAM: I don't think anything would surprise us. I guess, we knew that they were athletic. MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: First of all, congratulations to We knew they the ball, and we knew they Oregon. They were the better team. That was pretty spread out the floor and try to drive and kick and attack obvious tonight. They were an old, extremely well- the basket. So that's something that kept us on our coached team. Great athletes playing together and heels and they played well tonight. they knocked us back. They were always in control of the game. Right at the end I thought we could do a Q. Many NBA scouts have you going in the top two Texas A&M thing there when we got it down to 10 and picks of this year's NBA Draft. If this is your last got the three and it rimmed out. But then like amazing collegiate game, what will you remember most things have to happen. about playing at Duke? BRANDON INGRAM: Well, I'm not really worried about I'm proud of my team. My team had just a great, great that right now. I'm worried about finishing school and year. With the injuries and youth and limited guys, for just being with my guys. I love this team, and I'd do them in our league to win 25 games, and Sweet anything for this team. Sixteen, just a terrific group. A terrific year, and proud of them. Wish we could have played better, but It was amazing my freshman year to play with this Oregon didn't let us play better. competitive guy right here and being with the greatest coach and be with a bunch of competitive tough guys. Q. I'd like to ask Brandon this and if Grayson can So I'm just being with my guys right now. I love all of chime in afterwards: How pivotal was Jordan Bell's these guys. performance for Oregon and what were the biggest problems that he was posing for your team? THE MODERATOR: Questions for Coach Krzyzewski. BRANDON INGRAM: Of course he's a great player. He challenged us at the rim. When we attacked, he Q. Coach, looked like you spent some time talking blocked shots well and he just got after it. He brought to Dillon Brooks after the game. I wonder if you energy to their team, and we didn't attack strong and it could share what you spoke to him about and if showed up on the boards. you could address that. MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: Yeah, I just congratulated him. GRAYSON ALLEN: He's a very strong and athletic He's a terrific player. He's a terrific player. He makes player. He was going after everything, attacking the their team go. He doesn't have a position. He doesn't basket. He was going up to everything, and have a position. He plays all positions, and he plays shots that he didn't block he was altering. So he was them so strong. His versatility, Dana uses it so well. an X factor for their team. They have a few guys like that, but obviously he's the best one. He's the best one. Q. Grayson, a lot of what you guys try to do is predicated on the drive-and-kick. It looked like One thing I should have mentioned right away, Benson they bottled you up specifically on that. Can you had a great game. The threes he hit to start the talk about their defense collapsing and shutting second half, I thought we were in a good mood to get

Rev #1 by #170 at 2016-03-25 04:52:00 GMT page 1 of 3 going and he knocked down those two. To get eight amount of minutes, the situations that he was put in. assists and only one turnover, he's like an unsung hero He had a fabulous year for us, and that's what I'll for their team, with all the athletes and the blocked remember. shots and all of that. The game he played, the floor game and the shots he hit were terrific. I'm proud of him. I love the kid. There is no way we have the season -- we've had a terrific year. Not a Q. Mike, you've been to the Elite Eight many times. good one, we've had a terrific year, and he's one of the It will be the first time for Dana Altman. What main reasons for it. In his profession, hopefully he's would you say to a coach who has been doing this going to be a pro player, but the service, the best thing a long time -- you could say, because I was in the service and a MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: Well, congratulations first of all. captain in the Army, is "well done", and that's what I That's what I'd tell him. For any coach who gets there, would say to him, "Well done, son. Well done." that's an honor, and you don't know if you're ever going to get there again. You're one step away from -- I think Q. I know it's really fresh, but taking a step back, as a coach, we all would like to win National looking back, would you say that this team met or Championships. But you cross a certain bridge when exceeded your expectations coming into the you go to the Final Four. And some of the great Tournament? coaches in the history of our game have never gotten MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: Well, we expect to win every time to the Final Four. So you're one step away. we go on the court or else I shouldn't coach, you know. That doesn't mean we're going to, but when we started I think every coach knows, especially him, he's been the year, we had four guys coming back, who only one coaching for three decades. I mean, he's a really good of them started, from the National Championship and coach. He understands that. He's coaching against we have a lot of young guys. Then we lost our best another really good guy. You talk about two of the rebounder and leader on the court. Our team could not really good guys in the profession, he and Lon are even have been in the Tournament. Instead this group pros. But that's one step away from utopia, and I don't of kids fought like crazy and went through a gauntlet of know, National Championships, the penthouse, and Louisville, Virginia, North Carolina, and Louisville, and wherever utopia is. Thank goodness we've been there we won three and almost won the fourth one and it a few times. made us. It knocked us back, too. It knocks a lot out of you, but it defined the season and put us in a position Q. Coach, the offensive rebounds and the where we're No. 4 seed and pretty good. rebounds in general were again a point of emphasis and a big discrepancy -- I wish we could be more fresh and all that, but you go MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: Not as big as it usually is. We're into all those battles, you can't be. That's why I'm not 20 or 30 behind. proud of my guys. I mean, they still battled at the end. There was a part of that game where you could just get I don't think the rebounding had much to do with it blown out because they're hitting threes and they're tonight. You know, the blocked shots, their athleticism playing so well and they're in control. All of a sudden, where you think you're open and then they're so good again, I'm not saying -- not like I believe in the Easter laterally and then they have guys that go vertical. That Bunny, don't tell anybody, or fairy tales, but when we combination, if you do get past the lateral on the drive, got it down to 10 and Brandon had the three at the top, boom, the other stuff is there. That combination was, I've been involved in stranger things. I thought my to me, something you just don't face very often. You team, if you hit that, they're gutsy enough to win. So can't -- first of all, we don't practice that much, we can't, that's why I love them. but you can't simulate that. Actually, rebounding-wise we weren't as bad. It was just the other stuff. It wasn't smooth for us tonight, but, again, playing them it's not going to be very smooth. They're so good. Q. Coach, I know he wasn't up here earlier, but Marshall Plumlee, his last game for Duke. What Q. How long do you think about a game like this will you miss most about him but not only that but before you have to switch your mind and prepare the fact that there won't be a Plumlee on your for coaching Team USA? roster next year? MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: Yeah, well, I owe it to my group MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: I'd rather not talk about the to be their coach and make sure that they feel the pride Plumlees. I'd rather just talk about Marshall. No kid that we feel for them in what they've done, and then has improved more in one year in my 36 years here at make sure as they move on, whether it's a freshman to Duke than Marshall. He was as important a player as a sophomore, whatever, that we put them in the right we could have especially after Amile got hurt, the spot.

Rev #1 by #170 at 2016-03-25 04:52:00 GMT page 2 of 3 But, you know, I have a hard time when you lose and you've been a loser. When you lose and you've been a winner, I'm okay with that because not everybody wins. That's why winning this whole thing, there aren't very many. There's only one team that's going to win this whole thing.

So I take pride in what my guys -- they were winners this year, and I want to make sure they feel that and then they get in the right spots academically, basketball, what Brandon is going to do, Marshall, all these kids. That's my responsibility.

But I'll be ready. I've got a little medical procedure I've got to take care of, but I'll be ready for USA.

Q. Mike, when you look back at your scouting of Oregon, what does Jordan Bell offer that Chris Boucher does not, even though they're both tall, they're both post players and they're similar in that regard? MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: Well, they're both good. They're two of the best shot blockers in the country. You know, Boucher is somebody that stretches you with shooting and Bell is athletic and inside. But both of them protect the rim. When they have both of them in the game, it's tough to get there.

But they're both terrific players, so there's not going to be that much difference except that one shoots threes and the other one doesn't.

Q. Apparently after the game Dillon said that you told him that he was too good of a player to be showing off at the end like that -- MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: I didn't say that.

Q. He said of you that you were right. MIKE KRZYZEWSKI: You can say whatever you want. Dillon Brooks is a hell of a player. I said, "You're a terrific player." And you can take whatever he said and then go with it, all right?

I want to thank all of you. I want to thank all of you, and thank you, especially, for following us and following us so well during the year. I appreciate the invitation to play in this great tournament more than anybody. We've been in it longer than everybody, and we lost to a hell of a team. We lost to a hell of a team. And all the volunteers that make this tournament what it is, we want to thank them for that because it's the greatest show on Earth, and it's the greatest show on Earth, and it's an honor to be a part of it. All right. Thank you.

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