This week’s subject, Nebraska sophomore point guard Cookie Miller, is a 5-foot-7 dynamo who grew up in West Virginia and played AAU basketball with former K-State star/enigma Bill Walker.  He was an especially good sport about all of this, so we thank him for his assistance.

The Wildcats face Miller and the Cornhuskers Saturday at the Devaney Center at 5 p.m.

K-STATED: Kansas State?

CM: Physical.

K-STATED: Wendell?

CM: (Laughter) I don’t like it, but it is what it is. I have to live with it. My mom named me that, so… Not too many people call me that.

K-STATED: Cookie?

CM: (More laughter) Sweet, attractive.

K-STATED: Lincoln?

CM: Beautiful in the summertime, miserable in the winter.

K-STATED: Doc?

CM: Man, let me see… (long pause). God… (another pause). A general, straight from the Army, very demanding.

K-STATED: NU basketball?

CM: We get after it for 40 minutes, and every play is THE play.

This is essentially word association, and the subject – this week, it’s Griffin, the 6-foot-10 man-child whom many believe will be the No. 1 pick in the upcoming NBA Draft – has the option of explaining his rapid-fire response.

K-STATED: Kansas State?

BG: Consistent.

K-STATED: Manhattan?

BG: I’ve never been there. (Griffin is an Oklahoma City native)

K-STATED: Thunder?

BG: (Pause) Ummm… (Laughter, followed by another pause) Let’s say young.

K-STATED: Norman?

BG: Football.

K-STATED: Best player in the country?

BG: Stephen Curry. No disrespect to Tyler Hansbrough, but look at what Steph is doing without as many good players around. No knock on Davidson, but it’s pretty well known North Carolina has great players.

K-STATED: What about you?

BG: I’m not trying to worry about that. I’m not thinking about that at all.