The league's been all about freshmen this season, therefore people have the perception the Big 12 is not as good as it's been in the past.

He played very hard and tried to do everything he could to help us win. I'm proud of his effort.

In my opinion, there's no one in the conference that's playing better. Any success that we've been able to have, he's the key reason for it.

They are going to do everything they can to win this game.

I wanted them to take it to the basket. I wasn't on the court. From where I sat I thought maybe we should have a chance to shoot free throws. The referees didn't see that.

It wasn't our offense that hurt us, it was our defense. They had guys that could shoot the ball. We were supposed to make them bounce the ball first, and we didn't do that. We came out with a hand up, and that's not good enough.

They play hard. They play together. They have more of a vision. Everyone understands what everyone else is doing, because they've been playing together for a long time.

They probably have the second-best (inside players) in the conference. Obviously Texas has the best, but Nebraska's three guys average 20 rebounds a game. They're killing people in terms of rebounding.

There were a bunch of competitive kids on both sides.

There were five situations on their free throws where we had four guys in the lane to their two, and they still came up with the rebound. That's unconscionable. To me, that's the worst play in basketball - and it happened five times.