Shields	Petteway	Parker
----------------------------- 1 2 total Incarnate(NR) 33 41 74 NEBRASKA (NR) 32 41 73 -----------------------------

Nebraska Hea Coach Tim Miles

On when he realized this could turn for the worse

"Not until we fouled the kid on the second three. Then I thought, 'Oh boy. This isn't good.' I knew they were good, and I knew Kenny (Burmeister) was good about the tempo. He had some guys that could make plays. And when we found out about Moses' injury, we knew that was going to hurt our defense. And it did. We have to be better than that."

On Moses' injury

"I'm not quite sure. It sounded like he hit the back of his hand on the back of the backboard. I'm not quite sure. It was in practice yesterday. That will be 2-3 weeks at least. We hope to have him back by conference play "

On Terran's in-bounds turnover

"Well, first of all; when was the last time you saw him take it out? That is not his job. I made a mistake of not calling timeout. That is my error. At the same time, I trust my guys and we just ran an out-of- bounds play to Shavon. So there were two errors there. Well I think Terran thought he could just get it in quick and get it to Shavon quick, and we would be okay. I thought we were on the right track, but I think we lost our poise, and we certainly paid the price for it. Tarin (Smith) normally takes it out."

On what he says to his guys from here

"I'm not trying to calm him down, I promise you that. You have to compete. You have to have a competitors' mentality. You cannot be afraid of consequence. If you are going to be successful in life, there is some risk involved. Were is your mind? Are you worried? We all have to deal with fear, worry and doubt in this life. Everybody does. So we all have to navigate through fear, worry and doubt; they are the three biggest, de-motivators in life. If you can't handle them, you can't be successful. Or it is no fun to live with or be around. I don't know where some of our guys are mentally, but I would venture to say that there are some guys that are worried and that does not work. The aggressor always wins. We said at halftime that I thought we were tentative. I thought we were tentative on defense more than anything. I think we were just hoping this went well. Either way to be a good defensive team you have to be mean-spirited, tough-minded and competitive. I just didn't see that much out of the team at all tonight."

On Incarnate Word's Play

"He has a lot of different guys at different positions that can really score the ball and anytime you can put four scorers out there that can spread you out. I also thought their role guys did a really good job again. Traylin Farris got inside and just made a mockery of our interior defense. I think they worry you too because (Denzel) Livingston covers the back side defensively really well. He had some good steals and covers a lot of ground. They have some decent athleticism including that guard from Chicago. Walker is a unconventional player, but he is a really good player."

On dealing with the fear

"First of all I think everybody has fear. But when you struggle I think it gets bigger, that is where you go back to your roots and you say you are going to work your hardest on whatever the teams needs you to do. That is what competitive people do to get back on track. Benny Parker after his freshman year, the kid struggled and he and I had a big discussion of where to go from here and he said, 'If you are worried about shots or playing time, you are worried about the wrong things. Just take what you can get and work your butt off.' I told him that was the best advice I have ever heard a player give anybody else in 20 years. That is what we need to do. Take what you can get, and work your butt off and good things will happen."

Nebraska Guards Terran Petteway and Tai Webster

On initial reaction of the game

Terran: "Just gotta keep doing what we're doing and sticking to the process. Incarnate Word is a good team, but we shouldn't have lost to that team on our home floor by any means. You don't have to point the finger. You can put the blame on me. I made that last turnover. It was careless. It was a stupid play and it cost us the game. We don't have to go down the line and say who did what and who could have done better. It was all on me.

On rallying the troops and moving forward with the team

Tai: "I think it's time we come together and have look at ourselves. We need to talk amongst the team and come and start playing to what our identity really is. It's on us. It is not on the coaches or anything else. It's on us to come out, step up and start playing Nebraska basketball.

On Incarnate Word staying on the Huskers the whole game

Terran: "Me personally I didn't think that. I thought we had the game under control and were going to win. I knew we weren't going to come out and win by a lot. That's just not who we are. We don't come out and blow teams out."

On the rhythm of the offense

Terran: "I guess you could say that's still a mystery or whatever, but we had a little rhythm going. Like you said, we were up 10 and they kept coming back and making those tough shots. At the end they (Incarnate Word) came out in their favor."

Tai: "I wouldn't say it's a mystery, it's more just us not playing to our ability. Me personally, I missed so many easy shots and so many careless turnovers. We, as players just need to step up. We know what we are going to get from Terran and Shavon and Walter every night and they need our help. We need to step up."

On creating pressure knowing you have to step up

Tai: "There is a little bit of pressure but at the same time it is good pressure. It's an opportunity for us to step up and help them out and get points."

On mistakes being physical or mental

Terran: "Mental. I don't think it's physical at all. I guess you could say its physical. Like you said they scored like six times in a row and we have to work on that. But it's all mental. Especially attention to detail. We have to work on that."

Tai: They were scoring exactly how the scouting report said they would score. We need to lock in better on the scouting reports and play how the coaches are telling us to play. So it's definitely mental."

On bouncing back

Terran: "Like I said earlier, you have to stick to the process. You have to keep coming in every day and put in work. You can't change anything. Coach (Tim) Miles knows how to win and we don't. We just have to keep coming back each day and working and doing the things he tells us to do."

Incarnate Word Men's Basketball Coach Ken Burmeister

Opening Statement

"Really proud of our guys. I think our president Dr. Agnese is using Division I athletics to brand a great University of the Incarnate Word. It is a great school, great campus and people across the street don't even know we exist. We have just over 8,000 students, so for us to do this is great for our program, but it might be even greater for the university in the future."

On where this game ranks in his career

"I think when anytime I was at Iowa we went to the Final Four twice, and to be part of that and to be help a hall of famer, Coach Olson, was pretty special. To go to Arizona a down program, and to turn that around and recruit guys like Steve Kerr and Sean Elliott and they go to the Final Four. Then to go to UTSA and turn a down program in that has kind of been the motto, keep turning programs around. Fortunately when you do that, you make some people unhappy and sooner than later they dispose of you and push you out the door. With new presidents and new athletic directors. We have a great president at UIW, who has a mission. We have a 28 million dollar student union going up, we have a medical center and after that is athletics that is a lot of money for a private school. It ranks high for the university."

On being down by 10, what was his message to the team

"Down 10, up 10, the way we shoot 3's I don't think you are ever out of a game, and I don't think you ever have a game won because of the way we play. Our style of play is pretty open as you can see. If we pass it three times, that is probably the extent of it. Sometimes five times. That is our style, we have tried to copy Gonzaga, Butler and private institutions that have been successful in Division I. Now Butler has changed their program, they are really physical now, but they shot the ball real well and played the gap defense. We are trying to do it like that."

On the end of the game, fouls on three pointers, Petteway throwing the ball away

"We had the right shooters, Shawn (Johnson) the freshman, won a high school game. I saw him make 19 free throws in a row in a high school game. Really, I thought he was going to make all six, and when he didn't it was a little bit disappointing. We got the ball on the inbounds for Kyle, and he got into his legs and I don't know how he shot it, it looked like it was over the back board and he got hit pretty good, and I thought we were going to get two free throws. When the ball went in, that was happiness. Then you are always nervous on the last play, fouling or something goes wrong. We had a lot of freshmen out there. Happy to have a win, and really appreciate Nebraska playing us in front of a great crowd, great arena. You are always happier to win, but kind of our branding is we want to play a Big Ten team every year, a Big 12 team every year, and go New York and west coast. Like next year we play Purdue and Oklahoma. The following year, hopefully Michigan State and UNLV. So we really have a death penalty, because when you have the transition just like Nebraska-Omaha is going through right now, we talked to the guys about them beating Marquette. We have four years we can't go to the tournament, it is really hard to recruit, even my son didn't want to come. He didn't want to come, he said 'dad I can't go to the postseason' it means a lot to people. We kind of bounded together and hopefully we can go to the CIT Tournament. We thought we were going last year, we beat Texas A&M Corpus-Christi and Sam Houston, and Stephen F. Austin had a tip in over us at the buzzer and Oral Roberts had a jump shot at the buzzer. We had 21 wins and beat those teams and they selected them. Hopefully this type of win can get us over the hump."