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"I think they (UT fans) were leaving early. I even had a couple of our players telling me that. We really played well. We had a couple of stretches of two or three plays that were, well, I just call them dumb plays. But other than that, we were really good again. We didn't shoot the ball nearly as well as we did against Colorado, but we rebounded much better, got more opportunities. Early in the game, first play we get a layup. Second play we get a four-footer. Next time we turn it over on a two-on-one, and the next time we get another layup, but we have no points. I told our staff what we're doing is really good, we just need to capitalize on it. And that's what we talked about at halftime on the offensive end: we're getting good shots. Let's just capitalize by putting them in the net. And then in the second half it just kind of snowballed on Texas. Billy got hot and hit three or four three-pointers in a row. Paul stayed active. "You can go back and look, but until this year, Billy's really played poorly every time his mom showed up. I even had a talk with him before she came the day he ended up breaking the three-point record. But games that she's been there this year, he's really played. And I hope she can make a few more of them if he's going to shoot it like he did in the second half today (19 points on six three-pointers in the second half). "Paul was tough today, and the crazy thing was he sprained his ankle a little bit. I asked him, 'Is that your knee?' He said no. Then I said, 'Was it the same ankle,' because it might have been the different ankle from what it was the other time. But he just tweaked it a little bit, and we always try to get him out immediately and try to see what it is. He immediately said he was ready to go back in. Needless to say, it didn't bother him very much. "Texas has a tendency to get you out and spread you, and if you're tentative at all, all of a sudden you're trying to play offense from 30 feet. I didn't want our guys to be tentative. We said let's attack and try to get it closer to the basket, and we did a much better job of that in the second half. They were tyring to trap and run a little matchup, but Ryan did a good job getting the ball to people. And we took it to the basket pretty well, too."