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Roy Williams - "We tried to focus on Elliot Hatcher and Tyrone Davis. Tyrone had a tough day. He's not in the best shape physically (due to injuries). "BJ, Scot, and Raef did a good job on him. You look at Elliot's numbers, we tried to hold his percentage down. I'll go back and say Jacque Vaughn and Jerod Haase as a pair are the best defensive guards I've ever coached or been around. "I think that means both kids (Vaughn and Hatcher) are doing it defensively. I think there is a great deal of respect there. I'm not so sure there's a great deal of likeness. They go at each other really hard. "It was the kind of game I expected. We knew K-State would play extremely hard on the defensive end. I challenged our team. Our emotional level had to be the same as theirs. There were a lot of times today where I questioned that. "They seemed a little quicker to the ball. Some way, some how our guys found a way at the end of the game to have more points than they did. That's a sign of a very good basketball team." KSU coach Tom Asbury - "That game Friday (vs OSU) was absolutely necessary, and it was a war, and it affected us today. "I was worried coming into the game about our expenditure of energy and emotion. I was worried how much we'd have left today, and I think it was a factor. If we'd have played a finesse team today it might not have been a factor, but Kansas is a very physical team. "I was concerend when Kansas made that run (10-2 to open the second half). Our legs were dead anyway, but I was pleased with the effort we gave. "Without Pugh's and Robertson's threes, who knows what might have happened. Those might have been the keys, those two freshmen hitting those threes. "We have the best field goal percentage defense in the conference. That's what got us where we are. It's not our overwheliming offense. We shot 31 percent against the #5 team in the country, and we were in the game."