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"We were much better offensively in the second half to shoot 58% after just 24% in the first half. But I'll tell you what: defensively we were sensational in the first half. There's no way any coach in America could want more from his club on the defensive end than what we got in the first half. That was the key. The Runnin' Horns surprised me tonight. I'm going to call Eddie Sutton (OSU coach) first thing. Tom's (Penders, UT coach) been getting on Eddie about not being able to run in this league. I was shocked, I don't mind telling you. I told (Penders) he shocked the dickens out of me, because I never expected them to spread the floor like that. They spread it and controlled the tempo and tried to run the clock down. And, boy, we were not prepared for that at all. But our kids just dug down deep, and all of a sudden the Runnin' Horns turned into the Walkin' Horns there for a few minutes. But you sit back and you think about it: that's a heck of a good plan, because it was totally unexpected. Our guys adjusted. We'd made two changes in our defense just for their style, and then all of a sudden they came out and did that, and we had to go back and go by the seat of our pants. But our kids defensively in the first half were really something. "I didn't know if we were ever going to get 20 for the game. I thought we were on 11 or 13 forever. It was so bad I even starting looking at the score, and I never do that. It was a low scoring game for a long time. That was maybe the loudest crowd I've ever heard in the Fieldhouse when we whent ahead 10-9. "Scot and Raef's rebounding was extremely important to us. Jacque and Jerod defensively, Jacque's leadership out there... it was a heck of a team effort. "Let's be honest about the fact that when Kris Clack and Reggie Freeman got in foul trouble that really hampered Texas. They're the two leading scorers they have. I was really happy that Brandy Perryman came in and played so well, coming back to his home state of Kansas (Garden City). I know he was extremely enthused and fired up, and really plaed well. I was really happy for him. But Clack and Freeman getting in foul trouble was something that really helped us. "I told Raef at halftime he ought to be rested, because he didn't play a lick in the whole first half. I did. I jumped on him a little bit, because he didn't do anything except turn it over. He had three turnovers the first half, and that was the highest number in any column across the board. But the second half he was really important to us. Paul got more active in the second half as well, even though Paul gave us some points in the first half. But Jerod, Paul, Scot, Raef... you can just go down the line. "A lot of it (KU's play in the second half) was because our defense continued to play. They were not running the shot clock down, so there's a lot of possessions in a game like that because we are going to run. Now one of these days we're going to find somebody that's going to outrun us, and we'll take a bow to them. But we like to run with everybody. I think our kids like that, and in the second half it got more to going up and down. Raef filled the lane on the break; Jacque made a great bounce pass to him for a dunk one time. The crowd was phenomenal tonight. I told Tom and their staff it was a shame that all the students weren't going to be back because they'd see really a wild place. But the Fieldhouse was rocking tonight. A lot of the students came back and they were pretty loud tonight."