Bill Self
Bill Self
Billy Eugene Self Jr.is an American men's college basketball coach at the University of Kansas. During his 13 seasons as head coach, he has led the Jayhawks to twelve straight Big 12 regular season championships, 2 NCAA Final Four appearances, and the 2008 NCAA championship...
ProfessionCoach
Date of Birth27 December 1962
CityOkmulgee, OK
cleaned everybody good great
They great thing about it is that when they missed, we cleaned up. I thought everybody did some good things.
figure staff team
The big thing is, we have to figure out as a team and staff a lot of things: a.) who to play, and b.) how we're going to play in different situations.
forces good guy help playing shooting worried
He's a good on-the-ball defender, loose-ball guy and forces help offensively. Now that he's not worried about making shots, he's shooting better. He's playing really well.
cordial spoke
He called. I called him right back. We spoke for 30 minutes. I think it was a matter-of-fact, cordial conversation.
crew eyes
I think that right there would be something to put Billy's crew in. They may still be on the bubble, but to my eyes (a win) would be the thing to put them over it.
crushed education kid start
I know it hurts. It crushed him. But if the kid isn't tough, how can a walk-on kid from Asheville, N.C., come in here, get an education and start for Kansas?
climb dug great hole lost might nervous ourselves played pressure tone
I was disappointed in how we played not how we lost because Arizona's a great team. I thought we might be nervous and then Arizona's pressure set the tone early. Then we dug ourselves another hole we couldn't climb out of.
feather great kansas matched sweeping teams winning
Sweeping Kansas would be a great feather in K-State's cap. And winning over there, with the teams more evenly matched than in many years, would be a feather in our cap.
cracked earlier game open
The game should have been cracked open earlier than it was. But we have a way of making things interesting.
tape wear
He'll wear a splint when he's not practicing. (On the court) he'll tape it up and be fine.
happy mad rather win
I told 'em I'd rather be mad at them and win than be happy and lose.
frame game good guarantee mind next
I think that game did a lot for our confidence. It doesn't guarantee we're going to play well in the next game, but we're probably in about as good a frame of mind as we have been in all year.
brown coach former game hamilton identical influenced management oklahoma positive stolen stood
He influenced me in all areas. Game management and preparation ... we still do drills identical to what we did at Oklahoma State. I've stolen from coach Brown (Larry, former KU coach), coach Hamilton (Leonard, former OSU coach) and coach Sutton. He's impacted me a lot. He stood for class. He's been a positive influence for me.
freshmen learn situation starting
This is a situation that we've never been in before, starting freshmen and sophomores, and we're going to learn from it. We'll get better.