Gary Parrish, CBS Sports Eye on College basketball podcast here with Darren Peterson, the Big 12 freshman of the year, StarGuard

at Kansas, and expected to be the number one overall pick in the 2006 NBA draft. When you hear

things like that, how does it register with you? Most people never get to a point where they

are described the way I just described you. It's a lot. How are you handling it? Firstly, when I hear it, it's surreal just because I remember the kid that dreamed of this lifestyle that I live now. And I'm just kind of proud of myself, but there's still a lot of work to do. And I handle it by just trying not to focus on it too much and just trusting the work that I put in. I don't know how often you Google yourself, but I googled you a lot.

And among the things that came up were comparisons to Kobe Bryant.

Somebody described you as the best guard to inner college since Derek Rose.

Somebody else described you as a Porsche 9-11.

These are big things. Again, you've mentioned surreal, but these are expectations that people are placing upon you. What type of

expectations have you placed upon yourself for what is most likely going to be one year of college

basketball? Yeah, for me, the main thing is just winning games.

Coach tells me making my team win, the individual stuff will happen on its own.

But my mindset going out there every night is just to be the team that we're playing against.

And the expectations, the Kobe one's crazy.

I don't personally, I'm not a big fan of that one because

he's one of my goats and I can't I don't even like being in that conversation but I appreciate people

like showing love like that. Everybody has a description of you as a player. How do you describe yourself?

I describe myself as just a player that's a winner and I'm willing to do anything that I have to do to

win, whether that be defend, rebound, score, make plays from my teammates, whatever it is to do.

I have to do to win.

I was talking to Coach Self earlier and I reminded him of a time where I went to Lawrence

in advance of what was Andrew Wiggins and Joeelle M. B.'s freshman season at KU.

And I went there to do a story on Wigs because he was the preseason CBS Sports National

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