Jahlil Okafor's face was buried in his hands. He just fouled Frank Kaminsky for his fourth of the game and he knew he was headed back to the bench.

Wisconsin's game plan was working and their savvy upperclassmen, led by the consensus Player of the Year. A seven-foot center who can shoot in and outside the arc, as well as post up the best of defenders, Kaminsky was having his way with Okafor, who may have never looked more like a freshman than he did Monday night.

"My coaches told me to stay ready and that they were going to let me finish the game off," Okafor told GoDuke.com's sideline reporter after the game. "My teammates picked me up."

That was how the Duke Blue Devils won the fifth NCAA Men's Basketball National Championship, all under coach Mike Krzyzewski. Okafor was considered a strong possibility for the NBA Draft's top pick before he even took the court for Duke, but he only registered 10 points and three rebounds.

Justise Winslow, another highly projected draft pick, also saw limited playing time due to foul trouble. Grayson Allen came off the bench to score 16 for Duke. Amile Jefferson only scored two points on one field goal attempt, but he toughly defended Kaminsky in Okafor's stead and pulled down seven rebounds.

"If you look at the stats tonight, two of my players had a combined two points, Matt [Jones] and Amile [Jefferson]," Krzyzewski said in his post game press conference. "They were incredible, those two kids on the defensive end."

Re-enter Okafor. With the Badgers fighting bitterly to keep the game close late, Okafor registered two major field goals, one on a ball Winslow saved from going out of bounds and another on an offensive rebound.

Despite freshman guard Tyus Jones' red-hot shooting and Allen's spark off the bench, Duke needed contributions from all over. Lost amid the standout freshmen was senior guard Quinn Cook, who came to Duke the season after Krzyzewski's last national title and suffered through the Mercer upset last year.

Duke's senior captain saved his best basketball for his last season, averaging 15 points per game and a .453/.395/.891 shooting line.

"We realized that this team had something special and we knew that this was out last time together, our last 40 minutes together as a team and we wanted to give it our all," Cook told reporters after the game. "We talked about it, we dreamed about it, we constantly reminded each other all year about it.

"We finally put ourselves in that situation."