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Roy Williams - "Let's start by talking about Jacque: as tough as can be. This morning at the shoot around, and I know this is beginning to sound redundant because last week it was Scot, but I really didn't think that he was going to play. (Vaughn suffered a knee strain in practice.) I told our staff at the pre-game meal I thought there was a 20% chance he would play. The only way I would play him was if he confidently felt like he would be okay. This morning he didn't feel that way. But he did a lot of stretching after he got back to the hotel and then came here and really warmed up hard and said it felt better and said he wanted to try it. It's hard for me to deny him anything. "I congratulated him with the team because he's the all-time assist leader in Kansas history. There's been a lot of good players there, but nobody gives it up any better. He's just an outstanding kid and as tough as you can be and a heck of a player. "17 out of 19 (free throws) is the best we've ever had while I've been here, but today it was 18 out of 19. It was a lot of poise down the stretch. It was a great atmosphere, a great crowd. I feel for Jimmy Calhoun and his staff and his kids, because they've been facing a lot of adversity this week. (UConn starters Kirk King and Ricky Moore sat out pending an investigation into NCAA violations.) I've said many times, there's three or four good agents out there, and the rest of them crawl out from under a rock every day. They found another one up here that crawled out from under a rock. It's a tough thing for his kids, yet they banded together and were very motivated and did a heck of a job against us. Seven out of nine (field goals) to start with. I kept telling our kids, 'It'll come back. It'll come back.' And basically we were really good defensively in the second half. "Billy has the ability to shoot the ball, and it's up to us to get him opportunities. We had two set plays where we got it to him, and he shot it in. And he made one other one when Paul forgot to set the screen, and (Thomas) penetrated and made it." UConn coach Jim Calhoun - "We challenged these kids just to play with more energy than Kansas. Just play harder than Kansas. Give yourself a fighting chance. They gave themselves a fighting chance, so I'm very proud of our kids. "I'm very impressed with Kansas. They came into a building where a team was playing with emotion, energy--and we played as hard as we possibly could play--and they're a terrific, terrific basketball team. They're coached by certainly as good a coach as there is in the country in Roy Williams."