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Off the cuff: After the game, UNC coach Roy Williams said, "That was an extremely competitive, yet somewhat ugly basketball game. You have to congratulate both teams' defense, because I thought both teams played so hard. It was a struggle for us to find a play to run or to find a shot that we could make. "There were a couple of uncharacteristic turnovers late, but [Tyler Zeller] made a big time play. We ran about three different set plays and we kept getting shots. We messed up on the defensive end late in the game and let Zeglinski get a wide-open shot to challenge. We were very lucky that it didn't go in. That's the bottom line. We did have all the fouls, so we wanted to try to use them and not give them too much time to run a play. "Sometimes that worked and it helped us. At two or three seconds left, when Harrison [Barnes] was on the line, I thought that was it. But we gave them another chance, and we were very lucky. Harrison [Barnes]'s turnover, and Reggie [Bullock}'s turnover; you have to give Virginia credit because they came up with the turnovers. John [Henson]'s play inside when he got switched off with Jontel [Evans] and blocked the shot, that was big. I thought [Tyler Zeller] was huge for us today, we passed the ball to him and his play was big. If you go down the stat sheet line, he's 7-11 and nobody else comes close: 4-10, 3-15, 0-6. He carried us a great deal of the time."
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