“For one, we have the best league in the history of college basketball,” Weber said. “Two, you miss your point guard, who against North Carolina had the best game of his short career. Three, we wore down at times. The difference between us and Texas Tech is they won the close games. We have the two two-overtime games and Texas (a 71-70 loss). You win two or three of those and now you’re probably in the NCAA Tournament.
“That’s all the excuses you can have. I guess they’re excuses, but they’re probably facts, also.”
“I think we deserve to be in the NIT,” Weber said. “If we can find a way to beat Oklahoma State we’ll play our 17th game against a top-25 RPI. No one else is going to be able to do that in the country. Our record outside of that is really, really good.
“There are no ‘good jobs’ when you take second place, or you don’t win the game. We’ve been very, very competitive for 90 percent or more of the games. It’s just that we haven’t been able to find an answer to get a win.”
“Obviously, that’s your goal,” he said. “That’s your goal every year. Again, win a couple close games and we’re probably in there this year. We are losing a lot of guys (in the Big 12). Just like we had seniors when we won the Big 12, the older guys have been successful (on other Big 12 teams). It’s a veteran league. You ask why we had some tough losses and not as many wins, I think that’s your biggest thing. When we went outside of the league we had success.
“A bunch of (opponents) are in the Big 12 so you have to worry about that.”
