Craig Smith was sensational. But really it was their whole club. They're just a heck of a team. I know they got off to a little bit of a slow start at 0-3 in the league, but they've played as well as anyone since then.

Craig Smith was sensational, but it really was their whole club. They're just a heck of a team.

He's been magnificent; he's been sensational. He and Wes have been great at working together and pushing each other. There's not a bad bone in that boy's body. If there is, I haven't seen it yet.

The big fellow was unbelievable. You have to feed the big guy and let him go. He was sensational.

Needless to say, we feel a heck of a lot better than we did after the Southern Cal game the other night. I thought we were really active defensively in the first half. If we had been flying around and having that intensity last Wednesday, the outcome would have been a lot better.

I called coach Smith [after the interview], and he asked me how I felt. I said, 'relieved.' He said, 'That means something better will come along.' Two months later, I was head coach at Kansas.