Here is the Cliff’s Notes version of Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self’s comments at his weekly press conference today.

Full audio has been posted.

• Oklahoma State’s James Anderson has been as good as any player in our league. It’ll be tough to beat him out for Big 12 player of the year.

• The team in 2008 didn’t win at Texas, Kansas State or Oklahoma State. It would be nice to have this team have a clean sweep of those three on the road. Motivation shouldn’t be needed at this time of the year.

• If the team starts “drinking its own Kool-Aid,” Self might make practices a bit tougher. That’s the way it has been all season. The motivation for this trip is to win another game and to win the conference outright.

• Self hasn’t talked to the players about going 16-0. If KU wins Saturday, the coach will bring it up next week. KU has the hardest final three games of any team in the league. KU is only thinking about OSU.

• Self would rather win in postseason than in the conference, but winning the conference is important to this staff. KU has won games it’s supposed to win. A lot of seasons aren’t as great as they should be because you slip up against teams you should beat. KU hasn’t slipped up this year.

• Self won’t tell the players this, but he’d rather win and worry about not putting the foot on the throat than not win. This team does a good job of playing the situation. Sometimes that’s bad. There is an element of this toughness that this team does have, and that toughness rivals the toughness of the ’08 team.

• If the selections came out today, the Big 12 would have seven teams in the tournament. OSU would be able to rest comfortably and know it would make the NCAA Tournament if it knocked off KU.

• This team is kind of weird. You look on TV, and you see empty seats on TV, and you would think that would be an easier game to win if you played in it. Self thinks this team would be different, as it would be tougher for these players to play in a road atmosphere with empty seats than with all the seats full.

• The Saturday-Monday games are good prep for the NCAA Tournament. It’s also good for the staff to have to prepare that quickly too.

• Self has been mostly successful at shortening practices to around an hour, 15 minutes.

• Going to Stillwater is not emotional for Self any more. It’s a business trip. The people that he will love to see will be able to see him after the game.

• Self’s teams have probably been beaten as badly at Stillwater as any place.

• Mario Little’s doing great. He can still play inside and out. He’s become a very good scorer and good shooter. The red-shirt year has been good for here. Travis Releford has been good, too. If they weren’t red-shirting, Self would be having to find a way to put them into the lineup right now.

• Tyshawn Taylor feels good about himself, and he knows that Self feels good about him. He could be the X-Factor, because he does some things that no one else in the program can do.

• Self isn’t surprised that KU has shot 40 percent from three. The coach thinks KU has good shooters. It helps with guys like Brady Morningstar and Tyrel Reed off the bench. KU is a pretty good shooting team, and for the most part, the team takes good shots.

• C.J. Henry is practicing off and on. He’s probably 70-80 percent.

• KU potentially getting to 2,000 wins before North Carolina is something for the fans to talk about. Who cares about that, who gets there first? To fans, it probably means something because of the histories of the two schools.