He's a competitor. He likes to get up in you... I thought he played a big part in what they did tonight.

At the half, I felt like we played well enough to stay in the game. I thought we were going to come back out in the second half and shoot a lot better than we did.

I have always thought that you start out the season trying to win the national championship. When that's eliminated, you are trying to go to the NCAA tournament. ... Our goal was to win a game in (the Big 12) tournament and then see what we can do from there.

The camera has really made a difference.

We just have to go back to practice and prepare. Defensively, we had some breakdowns tonight. We just have to go fix it and come mentally focused next time. I'm pretty sure it's going to be a big-time atmosphere in there with a lot of people. We just have to learn how to tune the crowd out and just play ball.

Whenever they're here it's something that's really important to me. It's something that I really take to heart because they don't get to see me play much.