Bacot: “Honestly, I really didn’t see it. It looked like there was contact but I was just trying to go to the boards and follow it up. I thought we got a good look.”
Davis: “The refs do a good job of controlling the game and whatnot. Sometimes calls are missed. I didn’t really say anything more; it was just my initial reaction. It’s that type of game where things happen, and they don’t go your way.”
Ingram: “We got exactly what we wanted: RJ getting downhill. He’s the best scorer in the country and the National Player of the Year. He got the shot up and tried to draw the foul, but they didn’t call it. We got the offensive board, and I had a tip-in opportunity. I have to make my tip-ins. At the end of the day, they just won.”
ON HOW THE TEAM IS HANDLING THE LOSS WITH DUKE LOOMING
Bacot: “We’ve got to soak this one in. We’ve got to really feel this one and move on at practice tomorrow. We have a big game coming up on Saturday. We have to be ready for that. Luckily, the season isn’t over, and we have another day to go out and play. Big game on Saturday. I definitely want us all to soak it in and feel what happened and go into Saturday ready to play.”
Davis: “We are going to look back at the film and see what we did wrong and make up for that going into Saturday’s game. This is definitely a game that you don’t want to lose. The run that we were on and the streak that we were winning makes it hard to accept. We lost this game. How are we going to respond? We got knocked down. Are we going to stay down and feel sorry for ourselves, or are we going to get back up and fight?”
Ingram: “It hurts, but it’s a good wake-up call for us. We hadn’t lost in a while. I’d rather it happen now than later on. Thursday, we need to come out with a great practice and go hard for probably two hours and go at it. Really, just get back to the drawing board. Games like this happen. We’re all veteran players. We’re all mature. For us, it is going back to the drawing board and just realizing it is one game and not to dwell on it too much.”
ON WHAT THE TEAM IS TAKING AWAY FROM THE PERFORMANCE
Bacot: “Our identity all year has been just playing hard and being gritty, and they just did a better job of that than us. It’s a bad feeling. It’s terrible. You never want to lose. Nobody wants to lose. We just have to learn and grow from it. We have to have more urgency. We need to do a better job of coming together and taking over. We had a five-minute stretch where we didn’t score. We just can’t let that happen. We’ve got to find it early.”
Davis: “Sometimes you’ve got to get knocked down a little bit just to see how you respond. This could be a testament. This game was kind of needed, but it’s definitely a game we should not have lost.”
Ingram: “I think we’re going to come into Saturday with as much energy as we’ve had since the season started. We are going to come out, and we’re going to practice hard Thursday and Friday and get back to the drawing board. Just the little details, boxing out, playing harder and just getting that chip back on our shoulder. They wanted it more than us. We haven’t had a game where the team wanted it more than us. They took it from us.”
