He played hard, and he hustled. I saw him playing with some enthusiasm ... while everyone else on our team, you'd have to question.

Being able to get this agreement is another step for OU to be a player in the college basketball landscape.

It's a neutral floor, everybody's nervous, everybody wants to be a part of it. It's the greatest month of the year.

They're a great team, but I like our chances if we play like we did against Southern Utah. I think we're starting to get it. We're getting to the free-throw line and making them.

They played a phenomenal game against us. They shot the ball extremely well, which is what they do. We didn't defend them well, and they pretty much had their way with us. They pretty much dominated the game.

This is phenomenal for our program. We get two home games at the Palace and television rights. For the next four years we can tell recruits that they get a chance to play against Michigan State and play them at home. This is the next step for us from making the tournament to becoming more than a 15-minute program.

We play very fast and like to press. And we need a point guard that can distribute and score.

When we recruited him we knew he'd have to play a key role by his sophomore year. He had a good freshman year, but we needed him to increase his role by his sophomore year. Am I surprised at how he's done? No. Glad? Yes.

We came into the game as a very good rebounding team and nobody had done that to us this year. I don't know if we got tired or what but give them credit they just killed us on the boards the last 10 minutes of the game, I mean everything went to them and that was the difference.

He's doing very well for us. He's fitting in very well and doing what we want. We feel he's one of our defensive stoppers. We usually have him guard the other team's best wing player.