It's going to be the biggest game of the year in the conference, playing against top-level talent on national television. |
Julian is always playing around... non-stop even when everyone else is serious. He's happy over everything. At first, I was wondering about him, but I like that. He's a cool guy. |
Nah, I ain't never done that. |
Nah, I hate it. I was still kind of sleeping in the first half. I woke up, though, when they broke into our lead in the first half. |
Oh, that would be tough. |
Really, that's the way he's been playing all the time in practice. But he hadn't been playing that much in games because of stuff. |
Russell coming back in was a real big deal. He helps relieve the pressure a lot on me and Mario (Chalmers, 21 points of 6-of-9 shooting and 6-of-9 free throwing), and he's starting to become a real good scorer. He was ready to get back out there. He was pretty mad about getting the two fouls. |
There's a debate out there about who the best team in the conference is. This team is trying to prove it's us. |
They are taking it real tough. Everybody is mad. Jeremy Case is real mad. (Christian) Moody ... the seniors are real devastated about the loss. |
They said we were going to get killed in Big 12 play. We're proving people wrong right now. |
They were calling me up until a week or so before I decided to go to Kansas. I even took an unofficial visit there. |
They were really overemphasizing jumping on my right hand. They were trying to force me to go left. Kentucky tried it, but I was still able to get around it. I can go both ways, but I like going to my right hand. My left is a little weak. |
We all came in being this and that. But we don't have egos. We want to be a team. We knew we had to be something special for this team to do something, but we knew we had to do it together. I think we've done that. |
We didn't really talk about it. |
We finally proved to people that we can win tough games. We wanted to prove we were the best team in the Big 12. |