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BIG 12 CONFERENCE MEN'S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPMarch 9, 2017Shaka SmartJarrett AllenAndrew JonesKansas City, Missouri West Virginia - 63, Texas - 53 THE MODERATOR: Okay, University of Texas has arrived, Coach Shaka Smart. His student-athletes are Jarrett Allen and Andrew Jones. Coach, we'll go to you for your thoughts on tonight's game. SHAKA SMART: Congratulations to West Virginia. They did what West Virginia does so well. They were the more aggressive team. Over the course of the game, I think there was a cumulative affect of the way they play. Obviously they shot the ball better from outside. That was a big difference as well. But congratulations to them. I think they have a great chance to win this tournament and make a deep run in the NCAA Tournament. THE MODERATOR: Questions for our student-athletes? Q. How much was West Virginia's aggressiveness, how much did that take you out of your game? ANDREW JONES: West Virginia is known to be playing hard and aggressive. That's their MO and their style of play as a team. At certain points of the game, them being overly aggressive on us, and on the bigs, took us out of our offense a little bit. JARRETT ALLEN: Andrew said it perfectly. They sped us up. We couldn't actually get into our flow and just congratulations to West Virginia. THE MODERATOR: Okay, guys. We will let you go back to the locker room. Questions for Coach? Q. Coach, how much was their aggressiveness, how much did that affect your shooting percentage? SHAKA SMART: Good question. I don't think it was affecting our shooting percentage as much as it affected our flow of what we were trying to do, which I guess in turn affected our shooting percentage. But, man, we got a lot of open looks that didn't go in. It's hard to be aggressive defending free throws, and we shot under 50% from the foul line. I think some of the possessions where we turned the ball over or forced up a bad shot, those are the ones where obviously we were really impacted by West Virginia and the way they defended. THE MODERATOR: Thank you, Coach, for coming. FastScripts Transcript by ASAP Sports   |
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