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"I really think they’re a really good team. They just haven’t been fortunate enough to break through on the road. We wanted to make sure it didn’t happen tonight here, but they have shooting ability, they have size, they have defenders, they can block shots. We said we have to make sure Morandis and Pelle and Wilson don’t go crazy on us, and Pelle didn’t have a great night, but then Harrison had a great night. It was a weird night. "They’re a really good basketball team. We had to do some nice things, and maybe as nice a performance as I’ve ever seen by a kid who has an injury. When I took Wayne Simien out the last time, I said I don’t care if they score a hundred points in a row, I’m not putting him back in. If somebody offers me a million dollars, I’m not putting him back in. We said it’s going to be like an ankle: that he’s going to tweak it, it’s going to be a little painful for him, but he’s gotta be able to play through that. Twenty-one points, 13 rebounds. The whole team gets tomorrow off, and I told him he could even have the next day off. What he did was mind boggling, what he was able to do out there. Nick Collison was a man again tonight: 24 points and 14 rebounds. "Stephane Pelle didn’t have a very good game against us out there. I think he made his first shot and then didn’t make another one, but Wilson killed us. Tonight we were able to do a better job, and Pelle didn’t have a great night, but Wilson did. I think you have to congratulate them. They just kept coming at us, and we made some of the dumbest plays you’ve ever seen. We call a set play, send Keith Langford back door, and Jeff Graves throws it behind his back going out of bounds. But still, I’m as happy as I can be for getting a win, and as proud as I can be to be involved with Wayne Simien. "(Simien’s) shoulder is sore. The crazy thing is, on Sunday he played his tail off and gave us 18 minutes, then on Monday at practice he tweaked it again, and I thought he was gone. I went to the radio show and came back, and they said that he’d gone out and shot free throws afterwards with the rest of the team. Yesterday at practice he was fine. One time tonight he said he hurt it quite a bit, and I took him out and told him to go back to the locker room. I told Mark (Cairns, KU trainer) to stretch it or ice it or whatever, and I want to know for sure if he can go back in. If not, that’s no problem. But they’ve said he’s going to tweak it a little bit. He’s not going to do any further damage to it. He’ll be fine in June, but he wants to play. Kirk Hinrich last year in the tournament, and Wayne Simien. That’s about as tough as you can be. When he came back out, Mark said he’s ready to go. I asked him if he wanted to go right back in or wait a little bit, and he said, ‘Right now.’ That’s what you coach for, to have feelings about a kid like that. He’s just special."