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"Give them credit, they came in here and beat us. We can talk about us playing poorly and all those things, which is accurate, but they had a lot to do with that. We had a chance to crack it in the first half and didn’t take advantage of it. Then we go up 12 in the second half and jack around. These young guys haven’t been in that many close games. They went zone and the pressure starting mounting, and we attacked their zone miserably. Guys were open, but we certainly attacked it miserably. Very disappointing, because we’re a better team than what we played today. I don’t want to blame it just on our ineptness because I thought K-State played very well. "They didn’t have many droughts the second half. The first half they did. It’s 26-18 at halftime, and if we had played a lick the last four minutes it would have been 34- or 36-18, and put them in a tough position to come back. Then the pressure mounted. The pressure is usually on the home team in a situation like that. They’re playing with nothing to lose and we’re playing like we’re trying to protect something. We didn’t make plays down the stretch, and we didn’t do a good job of getting guys in a position to make plays. We make them look like they had a world-class flex offense in the second half, and they were. We did a poor job there, and that contributed to them shooting the ball so well. "Mario did some good things. I can’t get too excited about anybody when you lose, but Mario did some good things. He played a lot of minutes, did a good job dictating tempo midway through the first half. But we had some guys really struggle today. Other than Sasha, we’re not getting, any, any points in the post at all, and that should be a strength of our team, but obviously it’s not. "It would be a lot easier to go to Missouri and play great if you had left Lawrence with some momentum. But if I’m not mistaken, K-State didn’t play very well against Nebraska, and they came over here and kicked our butts, so we’ll have to do the same thing and have that same mind-set going to Columbia.”