The first thing I want to do is congratulate Jim Wooldridge and his players. They won at Kansas, they were good enough to beat Texas and they were good enough to beat Oklahoma.

The Kansas game was one that we felt like we should have won. Tonight was one that we probably shouldn't have. It's amazing how that stuff balances out, isn't it? But I have to tip my hat to our kids' will to win.

It seems this topic comes up every year on the conference call since Syracuse won the national championship. We see a lot of zone for obvious reasons -- because we have a hard time making 3s.

This is the first of my 12 teams at Oklahoma that have practiced harder than they played. They practiced and competed hard this week. But come game time they didn't play as hard as they should have.

Jim O'Brien gave him $6,700 or $6,800 [while in Kansas]. And the way I came to know this was Alex gave me the money to return to the coach. ... [O'Brien] actually gave it to Alex to send to his parents.

I think we're a top 10-type team. If this team stays healthy, we'll be hard to beat.