“I don't know how long I'll be here.”
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“I'm not worried about that. I'm a good kid.”
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“I wasn't into the game. My mind-set wasn't right. I sat down and talked to myself at halftime. The second half I relaxed. My head was in the game.”
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“I underestimated them a little bit, seeing how they lost to Nebraska. But that won't happen again. We won't underestimate anybody any more.”
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“They are taking it real tough. Everybody is mad. Jeremy Case is real mad. (Christian) Moody ... the seniors are real devastated about the loss.”
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“I don't think it'll be tough. A streak is a streak. Everybody loses a streak once in awhile.”
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“I was surprised. He didn't really say anything to them at halftime. All he said was they weren't getting on the floor enough. I don't think they're down about it. They just feel bad they didn't come with all they got tonight. I don't think they're down. They'll just come to practice tomorrow, work real hard, and get back on coach's good side.”
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“Coach said it's a mental thing, but it really does (affect you). Even Roby (Richard, CU guard, 15 points, 6-of-18 shooting) told me that he gets winded.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“You have to be ready for him. I can tell when he's going to pass. When he's feeling it, he's going to shoot. When he's having an off day, I know he's going to pass it so my hands are up.”
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“Every time I shot free throws, there he was shaking. It was nasty.”
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“We were just talking about that in the locker room, about how league play is different, and we're stepping up.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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“They said we were going to get killed in Big 12 play. We're proving people wrong right now.”
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“I could definitely see he was getting a little frustrated. I tried to talk to him a couple of times. I know how hard it is to be a freshman but he'll figure it out.”
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“I think that we earned some respect today. We still have a couple of big games ahead of us, and we are still going to try and prove people wrong.”
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“It just shut them up. You lost, what more can you say?”
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“He's got a big mouth. He told me 'a physical game's not your style; stick to finesse.' It feels real good to win when they're talking smack.”
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“I thought the game was about done. We had big doubts about coming back. Then the shots started falling, and we picked it up on defense.”
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“I'm surprised I didn't get a technical. I got real mad. I thought it was a foul.”
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“They were calling me up until a week or so before I decided to go to Kansas. I even took an unofficial visit there.”
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“We didn't really talk about it.”
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“I do think we deserve to be ranked. We did a little better than I thought.”
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“We wanted to win for Kansas.”
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“I thought someone was behind me. I was going to do something really crazy, like between my legs or something, and really make the [ESPN] Top 10.”
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“I'm trying to get on ESPN. That's what that is.”
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“I did that because I thought somebody was behind me. I was going to try to do something crazy, was going to try to go through the legs, get the crowd real hyped.”
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“I don't think they were prepared for today, because we knew in our heads that we were going to kill them.”
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“I didn't think it would be this easy, but things were just falling our way.”
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“Oh, that would be tough.”
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“It's going to be the biggest game of the year in the conference, playing against top-level talent on national television.”
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“It surprised me. I was getting the shots I wanted, I just was missing them. I was getting frustrated, I just couldn't get myself into the game.”
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“It's a debate out there as to who's the best team in the conference. It's time to settle who that is. We're ready for it. It's going to be pretty exciting. This time it's going to be on neutral ground so it'll be a lot more even.”
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