Here's what Duquesne's coach and players said about facing BYU in the NCAA tournament.
Duquesne's Dae Dae Grant, front right, lays up the ball ahead of St. Bonaventure's Mika Adams-Woods during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game in the semifinal round of the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament Saturday, March 16, 2024, in New York. haven’t played each other in basketball since they met at Madison Square Garden on Dec. 28, 1953. The game ended in a 69-47 victory for the Dukes.
The two squads may not have been overly familiar with each other before being paired up in the first round of this year’s NCAA tournament. But ahead of Thursday’s game — a 10:40 a.m. MT tip — both teams have been busy scouting.How would you describe what BYU does so well offensively, and what’s going to be the major key for your team as a defense?Well, the closest thing that I have seen to BYU is BCU in our league. Very similar.
We’ve seen a lot of the things that they’ve done. It’s just a matter now of making sure that we’re the tougher team in the game. Because I think that’s probably an underrated thing with Brigham Young is they’re tough and hard-nose and throw forearms into your chest and test your toughness. And I think that’s something people don’t talk a lot about with them.To be honest, man, that would be on them and their scouting report, to be honest.
Shoot, we’re an up-tempo team. We like to defend and be physical as well as try and execute on offense. We have guards that can go as well as guys who can score in the low end and in the post as well. I mean, you could look for all-around aspect. We have guys who can shoot, guard, defend. It will be a fun game, man.Now that you have had time to look at BYU, ... what stands out about their team and the challenges that they pose?It’s kind of a game of contrasting styles I would say.
I feel like the key to the game is trying to get them to play our style and not fall into their style of play.I’ll have to say the same thing. You know, just focusing on our style of play. Something that stood out to me about their team was they have a passing five-man. So I feel like, if we can get a couple of deflections in the route, that type of style that they would like to run and get off and run their shooters off the line, I feel like we’ll be good.
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