(Robert Willett/Raleigh News & Observer)"They're really good and they can knock you out. And we didn't get knocked out. And as a result, we hung in there and we won the last round. I'm not sure we won the whole fight, but the last round, we did, and we won the game. But we fought the entire time. We fought a really good fight."-- Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski.
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