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Roy Williams - "I was worried about how Nebraska's problems (several players skipping practice Monday to talk with AD Bill Byrne) were going to affect both their team and ours. I think if you see a team coming in that's lost six in a row, and we're on a big high because of winning at Iowa State, that you have a tendency, human nature, to take things lightly. I was very concerned about that. Then we go off and it's 13-3 or something like that, and I told our staff, 'I don't like this,' because I felt like our guys would think it was gonna be easy, and I didn't think it would be. Sure enough, that came back to haunt us a little bit. They (NU) made a great run midway through the second half. But after they took a one-point lead, I thought we were really good. We got the ball inside, Scot dunks the first one, then Jerod gets one, we get it back inside.... We just did a lot of good things at that point. "The few threes we got tonight were important. But I thought what was really bad was all the threes they got. Tyrone (Lue) was five for six, and Eric (Strickland) was four for five from the three-point line. And they hurt us on penetration. We overhelped, and then all of a sudden they're throwing it out there and a guy's wide open. Sometimes people miss those shots, but Nebraska's kids didn't miss 'em tonight. I was happy for Tyrone to the extent that he came back closer to home (Raytown, MO) and played well, but let him do that against Kansas State or Missouri. He doesn't have to do that over here. "We had Jacque and Jerod and Paul defensively guarding their three perimeter poeople, and we stared out with Paul on Jaron Boone. But Strickland bothered us so much, we swithced and put Paul over there just because of a little more size, and then Jerod had Boone. And at the end we even went another way and put Jerod on Tyrone and let Jacque chase Strickland around the screens, and Paul was on Jaron. We've always felt, give people a different look and not the same guy guarding them all the time where they get used to them, and I think that was important. But a couple of our guys came off the bench and did some nice things. Ryan robertson in the first half was very important to us when Jerod and Billy were stinkin' it up. Then in the second half I was concerned about our matchups during that run, and Calvin came in, and I decided to got with Jacque and Calvin together. It was one of those things were you're searching to see if something can work, and this one worked this time. "I have a hard time believing that anybody in this league is having a better year than Jacque Vaughn is having. If somebody wants to say that's campaigning, they can say what the dickens they want to say. But I have a hard time believing anybody's having a better year than that kid is. "I told Danny (Nee) that after they took the one-point lead we really played. I was trying to make sure he knew it wasn't just a bad effort on our part. We had to really play. I feel that he's probably feeling pretty good about his team competing like that. I think that's what you ask kids to do all the time. I feel for Danny. I said before, Danny's a friend. It was not handled properly. Kids make mistakes just like coaches do, and that one wasn't handled the right way. But those kids showed some competitiveness tonight. And they need to keep doing that, and good things will happen." NU coach Danny Nee - "We competed, and we played toether. We played smart. We just couldn't sustain it. Kansas stepped up and showed why they're ranked so high. "The distractions (players skipped practice to complain to the AD) ended last Wednesday. We rectified our problems, and now we trying to win a basketball game. "Our shooters are just not hitting. We played hard at Oklahoma State and we shot 34 percent. It's like a piece of crystal. You squeeze too hard and it breaks. "(Jaron Boone) has been struggling. But when he comes out of it, I think we're going to come out of it, too. "My team could have bellyed-up and quit anytime and lost by 25. We answered any questions about if we'd play hard or play as a team. We answered both those questions. Now we're going to build on it."