Duke basketball holds off late rally to top Vermont

played like a team that thought we would just show up and win. That ’ s how you get beat."


’ s effort, it ’ s fight. Guys weren ’ t talking out there," Blue Devil point guard Quinn Cook said. "The first 30 minutes of the game we were all playing defense by ourselves. You give a great team like that confidence and the basket is like the ocean out there. They hit some tough shots."

"Those are the kind of situations when we show our immaturity," Krzyzewski said. "Right after that was our worst. [We felt like,] ‘I got enough. Now we got it, we’re good now.’ No, we’re not good, there are 15 minutes to go in the game and they’re shooting over 60 percent from the floor."

"It ’ s nothing to be happy about," Parker said. "We can ’ t just win by one point and be on the verge of losing. We got to do better. We didn ’ t do a good job today."

"Our guys do not understand that what they see on tape is not what they’re going to see that night or that afternoon," Krzyzewski said. [Our opponent is] playing against [my team], they’re playing against [our] history, they’re playing against me. We’ve got a good hand here, and you’ve got to play your hand every day, because the team that plays against you is going to play their hand ultimately."