Scott Rich

Just as an anecdote, when I was on campus writing for the Chronicle, I was there for Austin Rivers' year.

I covered for the Chronicle Austin Rivers' one game where he came off the bench against Wake Forest after he had a couple really bad games, and Coach K tried to send him a message.

In the locker room, everyone's around Austin Rivers.

Everyone asked the question, okay, well, what did this send to you?

His response,

It didn't really send much of a message.

I know I'm a starter.

I'll be a starter moving forward.

And he just returned, and Austin Rivers was Austin Rivers for good and bad.

That's not what happened today.

I think Caden Boozer played his most complete games at Blue Devil.

I think his defense was much, much improved yesterday relative to what we've been seeing.

I think a little bit of that was he didn't have to guard Boopie Miller.

Everything's a little bit nicer when you're not guarding Boopie Miller, but he was...

playing better defensively.

He was communicating better.

He wasn't getting blown by and attacked the way we've seen in the past.

And that's what allowed him to stay on the floor to have the offensive impact he had.

He was on the floor for the second most amount of time.

Only his brother was on the floor for 30 more seconds.