I remember in the last 2 minutes of that game Voskuhl and Freeman really hit the boards. One of the Gonzaga big men later said that at the end of the game “UConn really crashed the boards on us at the end and that was the difference in the game.”
One other thing I recall about that game is that Gonzaga had a small guard who hurt UConn some with dribble penetration, which most teams couldn’t do because of Moore. Duke, on the other hand, didn’t have good penetrating guards. Langdon was a stationary shooter and Avery, the point guard, was also a 3 point shooter and not such a great penetrating guard. They also weren’t particularly good on defense. The best defender on that Duke team was Battier. He was a similar type of player to Freeman except he could shoot from deep, but like Freeman was a dirty work kind of guy who was great especially at taking charges. The problem with Duke is that he was the extent of their toughness and they were also kind of young.
