Opening Statement:
"I thought Duke showed why they are a top-5 team in the nation. They just keep coming at you in waves. I thought we were able to hang with them just for a little while there early and when fatigue settles in, this is not the kind of team you want to play against. They're in superior condition. They've got great athletes. It's kind of like going into a heavyweight bout and you may get in a punch or two in the early rounds, but as the fight wears on they just keep wearing you out with those body shots. When you let your guard down, they don't score. They score 10 ... they score 12 ... they score 14. I just thought they were terrific tonight. I was very proud of our kids' effort. We were short-handed coming in. We got more short-handed as the game progressed. I was very proud of our kids' effort, but Duke is obviously the better basketball team."

On injuries:
"Mike [Douglas]'s shoulder came out again [with] I don't know five, six minutes to go in the game. It was pretty interesting because he dropped his shoulder, he looked at me and - we were all looking at him and immediately when we looked at him - I watched his shoulder pop right back in. You know you could see it go back in, so we pulled him out. [Nate Hutcheson] separated his shoulder early in the first half. We're not exactly sure how bad it is yet. We'll get that evaluated when we get home."

On Flenard Whitfield:
"I hope for Whitfield to come back about six weeks ago. Right now, we can't get these guys back early enough, but we keep dropping like flies. We're just going to have other people step up. They've done it so far. We'll keep working as a staff. We may have to move some pieces around, warm up some walk-ons. And I'm being serious about that because we do have a little bit of depth up front. We're not real banged up up front, but we're really hurting on the perimeter, so we may have to get Danny Loney ready at the three and see if we can move some pieces around."

On starting conference play:
"We always shoot towards conference play with our strength of schedule. So far this year, this is a game that we looked at just like we looked at Gonzaga and Purdue, Temple in the tournament in Puerto Rico, some of these things, playing six in a row on the road to start the season. We think that served us well. I really feel like that's a formula for getting a team ready for MAC play. We've been fortunate enough to do pretty well in the MAC. Our scheduling philosophy has been schedule tough early. You play at Duke. You play at Purdue. You play at Gonzaga. When you go play on the road in MAC play, there there's nothing you certainly haven't seen, any atmosphere that you haven't really gone up against so far."

Duke Head Coach Mike Krzyzewski

Opening Statement:
"I thought our team played well. We came out and not only played well offensively but defensively. They're a very good offense team and they're coming off a game where they had 91 points against Oakland and beat them by 18 at Oakland. I thought our guys were pretty focused. We took good shots. We hit a lot of threes, but I thought they were good threes. Our guard play at the point was outstanding. Quinn [Cook's] stat line to get eight assists and no turnovers and his ball pressure was really good. Tyler [Thornton] hit four-for-four from three. But again they were open shots and he knocked them down. And it was good to see Seth [Curry] get into a good rhythm. I think the injury that he had knocked him back a little bit. He had a tough three or four game stretch where he just couldn't get lift. I just think we were fresher and played well. One day's rest and Penn will come in here and be a pretty good team."

On what about Western Michigan concerned him:
"Their scoring. Steve [Hawkins] does a really good job of getting his guys good shots. He has a program there. They've been hurt with some injuries and I know one kid is not going to come back, but their starting forward hopefully he'll be back soon. They have a well-conceived offense. You can see that they're a really together group. It's a program. He's a very good coach and he's built a program there and they never quit. We were hitting everything. The crowd was great. We get all these Cameron Crazies from all over the world here and they're terrific. They'll be good. They have been good, especially the last couple of weeks. Their scoring concerned me. I thought we could score against them because we're bigger and a little bit more athletic. Their scoring concerned me."