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.

Bob Knight

Bob Knight

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We have really harped on trying to play every possession, trying to play for 40 minutes. I think we came closer to that tonight than we have all year.

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.

We just watched it again on tape. You can tell they were trying to foul him, but they're not getting a really good hold of him. It's a judgment call. Fortunately, it went our way.

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

We haven't decided. We're trying to get more scouting information on both teams before we make up our minds. We're leaning toward Cargill, but we won't decide until (today).

— Larry Knight

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