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"The first half was good. We ran well and we defended well; really did everything pretty well. Just had too many turnovers. The second half was sloppy. We played a lot of young guys, and it was really sloppy. Twenty turnovers. Twelve in the second half. Guys lost a little interest to start the second half. There's no doubt about that. Keith never got involved offensively, but we still scored 50 points the first half. I thought our young guys did some good things. Our starters only scored 44 points, and you win by 40. I wouldn't have expected that before the game started. "Looking at our schedule, I didn't know when we were going to have a game that we could play our young guys so many minutes, but this was the game. "The player of the game in my eyes was Michael Lee. Dub did great and got 20 (pts) and 13 (reb) in 23 minutes, which is unbelievable, and didn't miss a free throw. But when Mike came in, he sparked us. In the second half when we didn't have anything going, he came in and sparked us and did really well. Aaron started off the game shooting a three when he'd been struggling shooting the basketball. So there were a lot of good things that happened tonight. But I think how we shared the ball and had energy and how fast we ran from defense to offense probably pleased me the most. "We've got to tighten up a lot of things. A lot of carelessness. Russell's way too careless. Fans need to come with a facemask on with Darnell because that one pass could have broken somebody's nose. I was scared for the Jayhawk over there. It almost took the Jayhawk's beak off. We've got to get better passing the ball. But I thought our big freshmen did well. They produced. Everybody got a chance to play. It was a fun night, and we really needed this. We needed to play well so we could get our swagger back a little bit. "We guarded 'em the first half, and they missed some shots. If they'd have just shot it bad, they would have probably shot it 10-26. But they shot it real bad the first half. Even their open looks they didn't hit. The second half we didn't guard 'em near as good. And they're playing short-handed. That's not the same team as last year, but they'll get better fast. He's a terrific coach. Our fans were fantastic tonight, and we jumped on those young guards early. "We can talk about (Nevada's run in the NCAA tournament), but what we'll remember is we got our butts waxed in Reno. They had us down 20 at half. I think they ended up winning by 10 or so. It was a pitiful performance by us, and at that time we did not know how good they were. I hope our fans are juiced for that one, because we definitely owe them one."