Virginia men's basketball head coach Tony Bennett St. Bonaventure postgame press conference.
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00:00 Tough way for the season and obviously in a game this tight and this low score on you,
00:06 free throws even that much more credible. Absolutely. First, a credit to St. Bonaventure.
00:14 You know they have five seniors and they played like experienced seniors. They made all their big
00:19 free throws and they made some two tough threes. I think that we're pretty well defended. You know
00:26 again you can only go in real time. So they made the big shots when we were up four or five and
00:32 they hit them. We'll see on the calls and all that that hurt for Reese to pick up his fifth call.
00:38 That was big but a credit to them. They were they were tough and made some plays but just like the
00:44 we had a chance against North Texas to you know salt the game away really and what we shot a lot
00:50 of free throws in the day in between and came in today and shot a lot and but you know you miss it
00:56 front end of a bonus maybe one out of two and you're not gonna make a lot but those when you
00:59 get into these kind of games you're trying to advance every little thing matters and so that
01:04 that certainly hurt. Mike. Tony this is a second straight game that Armand shot the ball really
01:10 well. I know it's a long way away for next season but do you like that he ends with that kind of
01:15 momentum? So I said you know the value of us you know being rewarded with an opportunity to play
01:20 in the NIT was you know I thought you know today Cody wasn't you know he didn't have a strong game
01:26 but I thought Cody played well in the first two games and I thought well that's that's good he
01:31 played well you know against Louisville there so it was good for him to kind of have a stronger
01:37 finish but Armand for him to discover you know knocking down some shots making some plays that
01:43 that's invaluable experience to be in these tournament settings and to make some plays
01:48 really only Kihei and he didn't have a strong game today you know only Kihei has played in
01:53 multiple postseason games you know Reese did last year one in the ACC tournament then we got shut
02:00 down and then one in the NCAA tournament after being quarantined for a week so that was important
02:07 for our guys to be in these kind of settings and that's that was valuable so some guys got some
02:11 experience Armand and Jaden had not played on teams that had been into the NIT or NCAA so from
02:17 that standpoint was good and yes of course with Armand you know seeing him make some of those
02:21 shots and stretch the lead and you know do that I thought it was important.