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Roy Williams - "I was pleased, to say the least, with our play, particularly in the second half. I think from about the nine-minute mark down to the one-minute, they didn't score a field goal. We put them on the free throw line a couple of times, but I don't think they had a field goal during that time. (KU was on a 19-4 run.) "One of the things I said to the team during a timeout in the second half was we've made our living all year long on the defensive end of the floor, and that old thing about you dance with the one who brung ya. And our defense has brung us, and that's what we wanted to establish and I think we did a good job of that. With eight minutes to play I asked them to play the best eight minutes they have all year, the most alert. I think we were good at the defensive end of the floor, we kept attacking at the offensive end. Kansas basketball means a lot of guys are contributing. "Wake Forest presented some challenges for us. Tim Duncan may be as good a shot-blocker as we've been around. Greg Ostertag gave me the impression he didn't feel like it was his night, so I went with Scot a little bit more. And Scot really rose to the challenge and accepted what Duncan was going to give him, and still came back and was very aggressive himself." Richard Scott - About halftime, when KU was down 26-30: "What I told them you can't print in the paper. We stressed to them they had another year or two at Kansas. We didn't. We told them to play for us, to help us out." Steve Woodberry - "What I said was X-rated. All three of us (KU seniors Scott, Woodberry, and Richey)said about the same thing. It worked: we won. This is my last go-round. I want everybody to leave everything on the court. If I'm going to lose, that's the only way I will go out." Jacque Vaughn - "I felt an urgency to help the seniors after halftime." Scot Pollard - "I heard their message. I had some other incentives too. I got dunked on the first half (by Duncan). I had to get him back." Dave Odom, WF coach - "I think they have the ability to beat any team in the country on any given night. Now Kansas has four nights to prove they're the best team. "Outside of the ACC teams, I hope Kansas wins it, because that'll help me sleep better during the summer months. "I thought we were in for one of those donnybrook finishes we've become accustomed to this season, but their defense toughened and we didn't meet the challenge. "Kansas played extremely well for 40 minutes, but absolutely terrific the last nine minutes."

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