We'll try to learn from that experience, and we'll try not to repeat it. All the credit in the world goes to Kansas.

As far as I'm concerned, I'm the coach at Nebraska until I hear different and I don't know anymore than that. I just try to coach our team and I'm very grateful for the opportunity to do that. We're going to keep our fingers crossed for a nod on Sunday night to play and that's where my focus is going to be.

He's a great player and has been on a really hot streak. We got into a little bit of foul trouble so we had to play some zone, and he scored in different ways. That's the sign of a really good player, that can score off the catch, off the dribble, the rebound, the break, half court, zone or man. He had a really good night. But he's been doing that so you know that going in.

I think we weren't as sharp as we needed to be and Missouri was aggressive and took advantage of our mistakes.

We've simplified things defensively. That has been a plus. But the biggest point of all this is the guys have taken more responsibility and helped each other.

I think most of the talk about this is just blather and too much cough-syrup sipping.