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#UNC guard Indya Nivar and center Ciera Toomey dressing room interviews
Mar 21, 2026
#UNC guard Indya Nivar and center Ciera Toomey dressing room interviews
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Could you speak to the defensive effort
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today?
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That I mean this team was shooting 35%
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from three-point range coming in and
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they made two. Yeah,
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that's our that's our that's what we go
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by defense is our and we take our pride
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in.
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I feel like our scout was really good. I
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also think that we gave what's her
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number their best player
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just a little bit too many points a
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little bit couple couple easy ones but
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we made sure everybody else didn't get
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any so I felt like you know our
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defensive effort is a team effort and
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everybody was locked in today. I mean
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you kind of had some cobwebs offensively
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early but the defense really
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kept them out. Um
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What what what was what was the
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How were you so effective defensively
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against them?
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Yeah
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as a team we know that's something we
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can bring every game. We know the
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offensive end is going to be ups and
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downs whether our shot goes in but the
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defense is something that's there every
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time and is consistent. We can always
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bring energy and we can always just make
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it difficult for the
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other team to score which helps us in
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the long run when we're not scoring as
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as well.
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But yeah just locking into the scout
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locking into our coverages and just
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staying connected on that end. And what
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about the
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offense you got from the Nyla and the
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Kianna today? Did they get get kind of
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get you going? Oh yeah.
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They're good players. They took what the
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defense gave them and they were able to
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knock it knock them down which gave us
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our rhythm everybody else a little bit
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rhythm and you know confidence to make
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our shots after.
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But this is one of those you usually
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you're facing the the best player on the
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other team but because it was a center
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that wasn't your your assignment. Is
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that kind of weird? Um it's not weird
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because it's always a team effort even
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if I'm guarding the best the best
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player.
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Yeah I feel like they kind of space the
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floor out and gave her one-on-one on one
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side a lot which is hard to help and
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help our teammates with so they had to
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be solid. She's a good player so she had
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to she might have had to make a lot of
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tough ones that we had to let go. And
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feel great to get a couple more home
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games when you thought you might have
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had your last.
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Oh yeah. As a senior you know it's
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always a blessing that to have these
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first two rounds here and to do it back
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to back years just really proud.
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Yeah never never counted our team out at
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the end and I was for sure like we
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earned it so glad to be here and glad to
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have our fans come out to get some more
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games. Thank you. Sleep their center was
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the big player to stop and you guys did
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a pretty good job. She didn't get many
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field goals. Can you talk about the
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strategy of
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stopping her? Yeah she going into it
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they did a really good job of preparing
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us on who she likes to make and
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everything.
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But we knew that like once you got in
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the paint she really likes counters and
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stuff so we were just making sure that
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we were sitting down not not falling for
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them not letting her get around us.
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And just knowing where she was at all
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times. She's the future of their offense
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so just trying to take that away. And
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most of her points came at the line but
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you didn't really put her at the the
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line second half. Yeah yeah we we knew
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that we were bailing her out a little
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bit. I mean that was universal that
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wasn't just 22 or whatever.
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But yeah she did she did get some
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obviously with the free shots so if we
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could go back we would definitely try to
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avoid those as much as possible. So you
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were listed as questionable for this
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game but you started you seemed to be
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fine. Are you good? Wait what was the
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question? You were listed as
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questionable coming into the game but
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you look you started you look fine. Are
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you good?
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>> Yeah yeah feeling great. Thank you.
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And
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just just the whole defensive effort
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today can you talk about how I mean they
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were they were shooting 35% from the
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three-point three-point range coming in
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and they made two.
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Yeah I mean defense is a huge part of
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the season. We've done a really good job
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of shutting a lot of teams down. I think
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I don't know if this stat held but I
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think we were like the best team at like
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holding teams below below their average
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throughout the ACC play.
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And we knew that that was going to be a
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huge part of the post season so we did a
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really good job in the last like 10 or
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however many days of just really locking
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in on the principles that we we like to
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focus on and just carrying that out
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tonight. But that that seemed to be the
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consistent thing for you guys. I mean
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sometimes the shots won't fall sometimes
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the offense kind of
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not not the best but the defense seems
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to be consistent. Yeah I mean throughout
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those nights that like
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our offense isn't where we want it to be
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we know we can count on our defense and
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that's what I think has got us the
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success that we we have this year. Okay.
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Thank you. Yeah thank you.
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