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Coughing up the ball ended it.Quarterback Skyler Howard was responsible for all three of the Mountaineers turnovers last week that allowed Oklahoma State to score 17 points in the Cowboys 37-20 win.One loss on the road halted weeks of momentum that had thrust the Mountaineers into the national conversation after starting the season unranked.With a conference title very much up for grabs, No. 14 West Virginia (6-1, 3-1 Big 12) has a chance to replenish its confidence at home against Kansas (1-7, 0-5) on Saturday before embarking on a tough four-week stretch to finish the regular season.While playing the Jayhawks might seem like a breather compared to what lies ahead, including games against No. 12 Oklahoma and No. 13 Baylor, coach Dana Holgorsen wont put up with anything but his teams best preparations to play a last-place team.If you pin your whole season off of one loss, then theres going to be 99 percent disappointed people across the country. Its college football, Holgorsen said. It happens. What you have to do is you have to use it as motivation to go out there and practice harder, prepare harder.The offenses struggles against Oklahoma State were a bit of a surprise. West Virginia had no turnovers in its two previous games and Howard had previously thrown four interceptions all season.All three turnovers Saturday ended up giving Oklahoma State the ball inside West Virginias 20, although one of his interceptions bounced off a receivers hands.West Virginias veteran offensive line has allowed nine sacks in its last two games. Holgorsen blamed some of those on Howard. His second-quarter fumble against the Cowboys came as he was in the grasp of Vincent Taylor, who had gotten around guard Grant Lingafelter.Offensive line coach Ron Crook wants his linemen to finish blocks better. And Holgorsen wants his quarterback to protect the football, keep his eyes downfield not try to shoulder the responsibilities of an entire offense.Nobody has higher expectations for him than him, Holgorsen said. He probably needs to reduce a little pressure that he puts on himself and go out there and just play the game. Thats a good quality that he has. Its our job to make sure those dont get too high for him.Center Tyler Orlosky said he expects Howard to bounce back quickly.Hes a competitor, Orlosky said. Hes a guy that is going to come out this week I think in practice and be that leader we need. Hell get guys going and hell be focused and hell be locked in.Howard said getting ready for heavy underdog Kansas will be no different than other games. He said whats different is outsiders perceptions of playing Kansas or FCS Youngstown State earlier this season.People thought, obviously, that we have Youngstown this week, were OK. We dont have to practice as hard. 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There were few expectations on him - he only had an outside chance of playing in the three-Test series - until he exceeded all of them. Thats when he began to understand how severely responsibility could rest on his shoulders. With that, came intense pressure to perform.The difference [from then] is that I was a young kid, playing my debut Test against guys like Ricky Ponting and Matthew Hayden. It was quite intimidating, Duminy said on the eve of South Africas first tour game under lights in Australia. Now I am more established than I was then. I am coming into a Test series with a little bit more confidence and a little more stability in my role in the team and how I play Test cricket.To say Duminy has under-performed in the eight years since his debut is neither cruel nor critical. The numbers back it up.To date, he has played only 36 Tests, added only three more centuries, and has an average of 32.44. He spent a period out of the side with injury - sustained when he returned to Australia in 2012 - but was also dropped twice. The current sentiment in South Africa is that he is a placeholder until someone more capable comes along.Australia could be the place for Duminy to prove he can fulfill the potential he once showed. In the absence of AB de Villiers, South Africa need senior batsmen to step up. In the context of Duminys own career, he needs to step up. He has gone 11 matches without a century since the Galle Test in July 2014, when he got an unbeaten 100 at No. 8.Though his opportunities are sometimes limited by a heavyweight top-order, he also went 11 innings in 2015 without passing 35 and was dumped for the Newlands Test against England last summer.Duminys response was to score a double-hundred in a franchise match and force a return, but it was only when he struck an unbeaten 88 against New Zealand in South Africas last Test that he was reconsidered. 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Their preparation is focused on the pink ball and playing under lights because this trip will be their first encounter with day-night Test cricket. Duminy said they will need some time to adapt to that difference in colour and in light, which will take a few training sessions.The concerns for South African fans may be that with all the emphasis on Test cricket under lights, the team could forget that the first two matches will be played in normal conditions and if they dont compete in those, the outcome of the day-night game could be redundant. Duminy allayed such fears, stressing South Africa were using the ample time they had to do as much as they can to win a third successive series in Australia.We are concentrating on staying in our bubble, he said. We are coming into this series with a bit of confidence on the back of our one-day series but we understand that its a clean slate. This is Test cricket. We are not looking at what the expectations are. 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