"I hope it's obvious that I'm an integral part of this team," the senior guard said yesterday. "I think that gets overlooked. People say if I would've left, I wouldn't be in the Final Four. But Duke might not be here without me."

"There were times I'd look at old tapes of games and say, 'Hey, I was open,' " said Henderson. "But the main focus was Danny Ferry. Hey, Danny's a great player. He's making a million dollars now. But sometimes I think it hurt us. When you have one player as your focus, you don't look to your other options and other players don't have a chance to develop."

"They pressure the perimeter and they're stronger than we are athletically there," added Krzyzewski. "We have to make sure we don't turn our backs, or we won't see things that are available. If we do see inside, we're bigger. We have bigger targets to go to."