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That was the second game of the season. Playing a team like Duke the second game of the season, that's something that's really hard to simulate. We've grown a lot, which is a good thing. That's 15, 16 games since then, we've matured as a team. We've had a lot of close games and our character and confidence have grown.

That would be like having Duke and North Carolina here in college basketball in the same week. We're proud of the fact that those clubs will come over here and play us, and it says we're going in the right direction.

That was definitely a monkey off our backs. Now that fear against Duke is gone.

That's the official day he will make an announcement. He could see himself at any of the three schools that were interested in him, that have been recruiting him the whole year, Florida, Duke or Rutgers.

I was proud of our team's effort. There were a couple of plays that I thought we botched there at the end that could've given us a better chance. But, I can't fault our guys' effort and how they competed. Duke played well down the stretch when they needed to and J.J. made all of the big plays.

Wherever the court is, that's where we're going. Wherever the opponent is, that's where we're going. Yeah, Duke is a great team. But we've played a lot of great teams here. We've been along for a phenomenal ride.

Well, in the past, obviously I just think Duke was better. And right now, I think that it's pretty even.

We played Duke on the road when they were No. 1 and that was a big challenge. This is going to be another challenge for us.

We do not assume the men at Duke lacrosse are guilty. Yet we are not surprised they find themselves in this predicament.

We're definitely going down there with the intention to win. If Duke is there, so be it.

We got frustrated. Duke does that to you. We tried to keep our composure, but we're a young team and this is a tough environment.

We finally got that win off, and I think that fear against Duke is just gone.

We handled a traditionally strong Duke team, and then played a very exciting game against Penn State, one of the better teams in the country.

We had won 17 games, but going into tonight we were 0-0. I knew Duke had lost, but these are different guys. They are more wrapped up in trying to become a good team, to become better individually and really sacrifice for one another.

We'll play anybody. I wouldn't have been mad if Duke came up as the No. 1 and we were there as the 16th seed against them. It doesn't matter.

We have the swagger to prove to the conference that we're good enough to win it. We feel like we can be the Duke of the mid-majors.

You know, Andrew is not Superman. He's fallible just like everybody else. He's not going to go out and just mow everybody down. If you had the opinion that it's Andrew Miller against Duke and it's just going to be like a knife through hot butter, you're not paying attention. Baseball is too hard to play, and you've got to give Duke more credit than that.

When I saw five of our guys slap the floor, it reminded me of Duke and I knew we were going to go away with the win. I don't teach that; they did that on their own. Our defensive intensity played a big role in our winning.

We know there are these questions in the community and on campus about why didn't Duke respond sooner. We thought, why not let someone who is independent come in and take a look?

We have a very athletic team and I feel like athletic teams give Duke problems.

We haven't practiced well since the Duke game, and unfortunately, maybe we needed a loss to recognize that. We didn't handle success as well as we would have liked.

The queen is a great mother and a great parent, and so too is the Duke of Edinburgh (her husband Prince Philip), and we used to have wonderful fun racing up and down here at weekends, we'd do all sorts of things.

We didn't run our offense effectively. We just stood around too much and made it too easy for Duke to guard us.

We played as hard as we could. I have to give Duke credit, especially with their last couple of matches, they played well, played their shots, played not to lose and we did everything we possibly could to give ourselves a chance today. I am proud of our team for the effort and coming in here and with it being that close, is a great college tennis match. Even though we lost, we got a lot better today with the effort we put forth. Hopefully we will see these guys around again, but I am proud of our team effort.

Well, I think that I've been learning how to, attempting to learn how to write for a trio. I've sort of taken a page out of Duke Ellington's book. I watched Ellington over the years and it didn't matter who got in that band, he found out what they could do good and then he wrote for them.

We didn't play that well. Justin Duke hit some big shots for us late. We're going to have to buckle down and play hard to keep winning.

We are grateful for the leadership and vision of Jim Knight and wish him well. Duke Health Raleigh is also very pleased to welcome Doug to our hospital family. He brings a distinguished career in health care along with a vast knowledge of our community.

We're doing the same things we always do. One of the main things is that Duke has earned its reputation over the years as a world-class institution because of our first-rate academics, as well as medical care and, yes, athletics.

We definitely wanted to play (Duke) again. With it being down here, it will be all Duke fans like it was today with all Carolina fans.

There are men in this courtroom who are walking around and breathing because Duke Cunningham put his life at risk. There is no doubt that all of the good that he did in those many years will be washed away.

We only have three or four places I'm aware of in the Triangle area that have digital mammography available right now. I know it's at UNC, Duke and Alamance in Burlington, for example.

We picked up at the start of the second half the way we finished the first. The Duke game was a tough loss. We know we could have won that game. All we could do was watch the tape of it and learn our lesson, not make the same mistakes again and that's what we did against Wake Forest.

We like the attention, because it brings recognition to the school. When I tell people I go to FAU, people used to say, 'Where's that?' But now because of coach Doherty and getting on ESPN2 and all that, they know. We get excited about that because we work as hard as Duke and we want people to see that.

We kind of drafted a response, but we want to identify those key issues and communicate with Duke in the hope that they will respond so that we can change our response.

You have to believe Duke and North Carolina and Maryland are all going to be teams in the postseason that are going to be very successful. They've proven themselves throughout the season.

This time of year, people kind of expect Duke to still be playing. We are excited because we want to accomplish something for ourselves as our part of this storied program.

We avoided it. We'll put our friendship aside tomorrow and duke it out.

To this day, 'The Duke and I' remains particularly close to my heart; I felt it was the novel in which my writing took a huge leap forward.

The one thing that stands out in my mind is the field goals we gave up after missed free throws. If I am not mistaken, the Duke shooter got two offensive rebounds on missed free throws. I think in both of those cases they resulted in follow-up three pointers.

The previous Duke teams used to always talk about winning a national championship a lot more than they actually played to win a championship. This team is a little bit different. They don't talk as much about it. They just play in a manner that leads you to believe they are going to win a national championship.

While I have urged and do urge everyone to cooperate with this inquiry, unavoidably, we have to look to the Durham police to take the lead in the investigation. Duke does not have the power to compel testimony from citizens of this city, and it lacks access to warrants, DNA records and other confidential information.

Under this bill, Duke Cunningham still would be able to get away with trading bribes for earmarks.

We've been on a pretty good roll and certainly played a bad game tonight. Texas didn't become a bad team after Duke (a 31-point setback December 10) and we didn't become a bad team after these 40 minutes. We certainly aren't going to dwell on that.

We all know how powerful the web can be for raising political money. Well, if you're game, the Duke Cunningham Legal Defense Fund is apparently ready to accept your donation.

We had a good opportunity against Duke and we lost that one. Here's another opportunity for us. We've got to be ready from the tip-off.

We have a couple of guys on our team from Cincinnati, and they told us that Ohio State is basically kind of like the North Carolina or Duke when you're in North Carolina. We're kind of around that every day. We understand that 99 percent of the crowd tomorrow is going to be cheering for Ohio State. But we're OK with that thought, I think.

This was a big statement game for us. People were saying we were overrated. They were writing us off. The only losses we have are to Duke and Tennessee.

We knew early on that Duke was going to try and pressure us, do what they do best and get in lanes. Our team was able to fight through that, and we scored some easy baskets on them. We did a nice job in the first five or seven minutes, and after that, they knew they would be in a contest.

We knew Duke was going to be very good this year, there is a reason they are No. 1. I really think we are on track. We're still training really hard. I feel like we ran well. We never peak early so we're a long ways from where we want to be at the end of the year, but I feel satisfied that we are in the right place.

You have to look at the program in the big picture. You can't just look at it in relation to the wins and losses. I mean, I suppose I could've made a change after the Duke game, but I didn't really see that as being a viable option. You just can't go and make an impulsive decision after the second game of the season.

What happened in Cincinnati, is I actually met Duke Ellington and many of the great musicians of that time simply by my going to all these nightclubs.

What Coach would call it is, it's a Duke play. We needed a big play at that point, and we made one. I'm a guard, and I guess I was given a talent to see where the ball's going to come off the rim sometimes. That's what happened, and I just chased down the ball.

We, his remaining friends, have spent the last day with Duke praying and talking about a new chapter in Duke's life, a chapter of service to God,

We think it's important for diving that this relationship continues, and Duke wants to make sure anything it's associated with is of the highest caliber,

You have to take a breath and relax, and understand that -- particularly someone in Duke Cunningham's position -- they're not going into a prison with a lot of violent and dangerous prisoners.

This, of course, is a very special year for Duke in many ways.

This thing at Duke isn't going to wake up anything. You'd like to think that it would. You'd like to think this is one of those things that you talk to your kids about at home, that it's a teaching moment. But here's what people want to know about it - that it didn't happen, or that it didn't happen as it was first reported. And that's the unfortunate part - because something wrong happened there.

We did a nice job of handling the first five to seven minutes of the game. We told our guys Duke was going to come out in those first few minutes and try to get us on our heels and that if we could work through that we'd be in good shape. That's what happened. A tone was set and I think they knew they were in for a contest all night.

We went to Duke this year as decided underdogs. Our job is to prepare our guys; we watched a number of segments of film.

Boxing will be a huge legacy but a lot of people have Duke stories that have nothing to do with boxing.

Bill was an enormous Duke fan. You weren't with Bill very long before Duke sports came up.

Every time Duke would grab the momentum, we would grab it right back with our offense.

And these are the sons of Aholibamah Esau's wife; duke Jeush, duke Jaalam, duke Korah: these were the dukes that came of Aholibamah the daughter of Anah, Esau's wife.

Ever since I was a kid and I saw Grant Hill and Duke and all those guys in the tournament, I wanted to be in it. Now I have my chance to do it. I want to make it special.

Duke will not build a new power plant, but LS Power might. They'll make the decision. It will be their obligation to execute the lease agreement Duke signed.

Duke was masterful. That's what beat us. It looked like Duke was fading some, we had some action, but we couldn't get that big hit.

Duke University is monitoring the situation and cooperating with officials, as are the students.

Duke showed why they're the No. 2 team in the country the last five, six minutes. We had a few shots that weren't falling at the end of the game.

Duke really had a fantastic crowd and made it tough for us to get a win on the road. It was a great environment for college tennis and I am really proud of the way our guys competed tonight.

Duke played well down the stretch when they needed to, and J.J. made all the big plays.

Duke now has speed and is as gifted athletically as they've ever been. They have a tremendous amount of depth.

Duke loves his wife and his kids, and their support, as well as the support of a few close friends, has sustained him through these last few difficult months.

Duke is the premier basketball program in the nation. For us, this is a great opportunity, and to me, it is an honor to go to Duke and play. Playing Duke will be a great experience for our kids and will certainly prepare us for the wars we are going to have to play in the Big Ten.

Duke is really good. There's no question they are good.

Duke is probably our biggest rival, but Florida State is a close second. Since our freshman year, we've kind of knocked heads with Florida State. It's just been very competitive.

Duke is not unique. I have worked at a lot of women's centers around the country, and I don't know of any school around the country where it doesn't happen.

Duke is a very significant player in college men's lacrosse, and to lose them even for the remainder of the spring is a significant blow to the picture of college men's lacrosse. It's why we all are so concerned and so interested in Duke's wanting to get this thing started again. It's a very important piece of the college lacrosse puzzle.

Duke is a team everyone either wants to play for or play against. And tonight we showed good character by going down and then coming back against a crowd that really wasn't with us.

Each and every one of those young men who were present at this party categorically deny that any assault of any description took place. The entire Duke lacrosse team looks forward to the results of the DNA test in order to clear their names.

Duke insisted that he do his own jump,

Duke has more good players than any other team in the country right now. You can say (North) Carolina is talented, Tennessee is talented and Maryland is talented. But look at Duke's roster, the size and speed and quickness and shooting and experience and depth. You name it, they've got it all covered.

Duke has already done more ... than any other institution facing a crisis in the 21st century.

Duke had quite a few one-on-one opportunities and faced a lot of breakaways. He did a good job of making saves and holding us in there.

Duke had a real strong period in the first period. He kind of held us in there.

Duke Ellington doesn't name himself. He's nicknamed by his friends because of the manner in which he dresses, the manner in which he presents himself. He embodies all of that aristocratic tradition that made Duke Ellington noticed as a member of some kind of aristocratic class.

Duke did a fine job. It was a quality start and he gave an opportunity for the club to win. I don't know how much more you can ask.

There's a family atmosphere at Duke. Once you commit to Duke and go to Duke, you're part of the family forever. I really, really like that. Coach K has a good relationship with you as a person. I'm not saying the other coaches don't. I'm saying that Duke was the place I needed to go.

There's no ifs, ands or buts about it. They played great 'D.' It's a tough way to go out. You all saw the Duke game. They held them to 54 points.

I started to work at the Colony in March 1958. I remember my first day because the telephone started to ring, and it was Sinatra, three for lunch, his usual table; Onassis, two for lunch, usual table; the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, Leland Hayward, Truman Capote, all wanting their usual tables.

I've been in their situation enough times where you come in and you feel like you've got every answer to every question that comes up. And you know the only way you can lose is if you don't play to your ability. I'm sure Duke feels the same way. (Duke) plays in a manner that leads you to believe they're going to win a national championship.

The whole thing is so predictable. This is a form of sexism that is so mainstream that people don't even blink their eyes when they learn the Duke lacrosse team hired a stripper. In a perfect world, that would not be sexist. But this is a world where one in four college women are sexually assaulted and women can't walk on campus at night because of the threat of violence from men.

The rivalry is very much alive. You see a Duke shirt on Franklin Street on a Friday night and they are going to get comments.

I've said all year long that Virginia Tech is one of three or four best teams in the league. I really believe that, and I said that before they were a 45-footer away from beating Duke at Duke. ... I think they're an NCAA Tournament team at the end of the year, and I strongly believe that.

It was very apparent that Duke wanted this game and they went after it in a much more aggressive, determined way than we did. Quite a difference in how their defense affected what we did offensively and what we did to them. They pretty much ran what they wanted to run. They handled traps. Defensively, they disrupted us and we did not disrupt them.

It was very apparent Duke wanted this game and they went after it in a much more aggressive way.

The thing I don't like is that they've got really good players and a really good coach. That's a bad combination for us. They'd be a tough game for Connecticut or Duke or anybody that would be sitting here talking about it. We're Belmont, so it's a tough game.

Teams focus on stopping Jamel (McLean) and Duke (Crews).

Performance pressure in this stage has had an impact. When you think of Duke historically, they have folded. But there is a different presence. Gail has made it a concerted effort to take pressure off of this group. I sense that they're ready.

People have always doubted us and questioned our intensity. We've gotten used to it. They didn't think we had a chance last year when he had to play Duke and Kentucky (in the Sweet 16 and Elite Eight).

Now, ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to play for you the Duke Ellington classic 'Take the Train' eh?