I happened to catch a bit of the ku pregame show last night and they had NU's play by play guy on there (not Rose for basketball). They asked him about Maric and he said he might be ku's 2nd guy off the bench. Then they asked him what NU would have to do to beat ku and he said "I have no idea" and then said he really hadn't thought about it as a possibility. The NU guy was giving the Huskers no chance though, it was pretty funny.
Afterwards they talked about how big a deal Big Monday was in Lincoln but for the Jayhawks it was "old hat" or some rediculous cliche like that although they sort of complained that ku often had to play on the road too much in explaining their 6-5 record on Big Monday going into the game..