JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A central Missouri teenager who confessed to strangling, cutting and stabbing a 9-year-old girl because she wanted to know how it felt to kill someone was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison with the possibility of parole.

Alyssa Bustamante, 18, pleaded guilty in January to second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the October 2009 slaying of Elizabeth Olten in St. Martins, a small rural town west of Jefferson City.

Bustamante was 15 years old when she confessed to strangling Elizabeth, repeatedly stabbing her in the chest and slicing the girl's throat.

LEXINGTON, Ky. "If you're looking at talent, I think Kentucky has clearly six guys who are going to be first-round picks on their team.

I don't know that Syracuse has six first-round draft picks, but they have really, really good talent and they have incredible length," said Donovan, who won national titles in 2006 and `07.

After a 78-58 loss to the Wildcats on Tuesday night, the Gators have faced the top three teams in the poll - Kentucky, Syracuse and Ohio State - all on the road.