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06/29/11 John Calipari , Mike Krzyzewski, Roy Williams and Bill Self do not make college basketball exciting; it is the fans that do that. The love and the passion fans exhibit towards their schools' basketball teams are what make college sports so great. Yes, sometimes they can become meddlesome and offer players illegal gifts in order to get closer to the team, but that enthusiasm allows college ...
06/29/11 Darrell Arthur might be considered Bill Self's most successful big man in the NBA at the moment. Three years into the league Arthur finds himself playing a key role for a playoff team in the Memphis Grizzlies. Next on our list of Bill Self era Kansas bigs that have made their way to the NBA is a player that very nearly ended up elsewhere in the Big 12 before a last minute dream led him to Kansas ...
06/22/11 Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self announced Wednesday that guard Mervyn Lindsay has signed a grant-in-aid agreement to attend Kansas and will be a freshman for the 2011-12 season.
06/22/11 Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self landed another late recruit. High school guard Mervyn Lindsay has signed to play for the Jayhawks in 2011.
06/18/11 The No. 2 remaining PG in the 2012 class has Kansas at or near the top of his list. The chasing of a top-ranked recruit is always an up-and-down affair, as prospects waver with each visit or conversation and seem to commit only to suddenly change their minds and de-commit for the sake of another school. Bill Self and the Kansas Jayhawks recently benefited from one such transfer in Kevin Young ...
06/16/11 Players and coaches include Bill Self, Wayne Simien, Cole Aldrich, Scot Pollard, Darnell Jackson, Keith Langford, Russell Robinson, Bud Stallworth, Tyrel Reed and Brady Morningstar.
06/14/11 2011 is a wrap and now it's time for Bill Self and Kansas to focus on landing top talent in 2012 With 2011 recruiting wrapped up for the most part, focus in Lawrence Kansas has quickly shifted to the talented class of 2012. For all the talk of a home run class in 2011 and the subsequent disappointment, it was always the 2012 and 2013 classes that Kansas seemed best positioned to make a run at ...
06/09/11 For those that find pleasure or pain - whichever your preference - in following former Illinois coaches, grab a Big 12 basketball schedule. The addition of Lon Kruger (Oklahoma) and Billy Gillispie (Texas Tech) brings the magic number to three. Bill Self will enter his ninth season at Kansas.
05/31/11 One player on each two-person Patriot Cup team had a military background. The playing partner was a pro golfer or celebrity, such as singer Vince Gill or Kansas basketball coach Bill Self.
05/22/11 At some point during the mid-1990s, when Bill Self coached basketball at Oral Roberts University, three young brothers from Tulsa performed during halftime of a Golden Eagles home game at the Mabee Ce ...
05/19/11 08:16 AM ET 05.19 | One of the great college jobs is still good enough for Bill Self. Self was asked about possibly coaching in the NBA someday in an interview Tuesday with 610 sports radio.
05/18/11 Jamari Traylor, 6-7 forward, has signed a National Letter of Intent to play basketball at the University of Kansas, KU head coach Bill Self announced Wednesday.
05/18/11 Today is a recruiting D-Day of sorts for the Kansas Jayhawks and especially head coach Bill Self. After all, today is the day he hopes that high-profile recruits like DeAndre Daniels, Jamari Traylor and Trevor Lacey sign their names to become Jayhawks and restore a roster decimated by early entrants for the NBA Draft and graduation. The names alone from the NBA Draft hopefuls would be enough to ...
05/15/11 Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self raised $3,500 for his Assist Foundation as he participated a celebrity skins game at the grand opening of the newly constructed Firekeeper Golf Course here Sunday morning.
05/15/11 Every offseason Bill Self and Roy Williams compete on the recruiting trail but on Sunday both national champion head coaches met for charity at the grand opening of Firekeeper Golf Course in Mayetta. "W e both try to recruit a lot of good players so the summertime is when you see all of the coaches quite a bit," Williams, said. "When I go in the gym I want Kansas and those types of programs to ...
05/12/11 Kansas Men's Basketball Coach Bill Self and former Kansas Head Coach Roy Williams will play in a celebrity skins game Sunday (May 15) at the grand opening of the newly constructed Firekeeper Golf Course in Mayetta, Kansas. Four-time PGA Tour winner Notah Begay III and Randy Towner, head golf professional and general manager of Firekeeper, will play with the coaches. Towner is the former long ...
05/12/11 Now that most of the end of season shuffling is complete, who will challenge for the Big 12 basketball title in 2011-2012. The dust is beginning to settle on offseason moves with NBA early entries, coaching changes and the final recruit additions all taking shape. For the Kansas Jayhawks it's still a bit of a waiting game as Bill Self awaits word from three recruits including two top 30 talents ...
05/09/11 JACK'S SMACK | I'm not one to wave the crimson and blue pom-poms, but in my opinion, Terry Mohajir is the most important hire in the KU Athletic Department since Bill Self.
04/24/11 Many times in the Bill Self era, Kansas men's basketball has ranked among the national leaders in strength of schedule and even with the Big 12 stiffening its schedule, KU did not let up with its 2011-12 non-conference slate.
04/21/11 Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self visited IMG Academies in Bradenton, Fla., on Wednesday to check in on senior prospects DeAndre Daniels and Jamari Traylor.
04/19/11 Kansas University basketball coach Bill Self had a successful in-home recruiting visit Monday night with Trevor Lacey, a 6-foot-3, 200-pound senior guard from Butler High in Huntsville, Ala. | 
