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Legendary assemblage hoops coach Bill Self said Sunday he was unsure astir his early successful nan athletics aft nan Kansas Jayhawks mislaid connected a buzzer-beater to St. John’s.
Self said he wasn’t judge if he was going to return for different season. The 63-year-old has won 2 nationalist championships successful 23 seasons pinch nan Jayhawks. But nan past fewer years person been marred owed to bosom issues and different wellness conditions.
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Kansas caput coach Bill Self reacts arsenic nan squad plays California Baptist during nan first half successful nan first information of nan NCAA assemblage hoops tourney Friday, March 20, 2026, successful San Diego. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
"I’ve gone done immoderate worldly disconnected nan court, truthful I’ll get backmost and get pinch family and sojourn and spot what’s going on," Self said. "I emotion what I do. I request to beryllium capable to do it wherever I’m emotion bully and patient to do it reasonably well. I’ll get backmost location and it will each beryllium discussed."
Self missed a crippled astatine Colorado successful January aft taking a precautionary travel to nan hospital. He besides had two stents inserted successful his heart successful 2023, and 2 much past year.
When asked astir his wellness connected Sunday, Self said he was unsure if he was "completely" healthy.
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Kansas caput coach Bill Self yells towards nan tribunal against St. John's during nan first half of a crippled successful nan 2nd information of nan NCAA assemblage hoops tourney Sunday, March 22, 2026, successful San Diego. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
"But I’m emotion — I consciousness arsenic bully arsenic I’ve felt successful a agelong time," Self added. "I’m not making immoderate statements whatsoever. But each year, I deliberation ... erstwhile you get to beryllium doing it arsenic agelong arsenic I’ve done it, I look astatine it successful five-year increments. Now I’m astir apt looking astatine it successful much two-year increments, truthful to speak. So I effort to attraction connected this season and effort to get america to a 2nd weekend, which we grounded at. So I’ll spell backmost now and break it down and spot wherever that leads."
The 2025-26 play ended pinch St. John’s defender Dylan Darling hitting a game-winning layup arsenic clip expired successful nan second-round matchup.
"My profession ain’t going to beryllium based connected 1 game," Self said erstwhile asked if it would beryllium reliable to extremity his profession connected specified a crushing defeat. "I said I was going to get backmost and measure my wellness situation."
Self took complete nan Jayhawks’ occupation earlier nan 2003-04 play aft 3 successful years astatine Illinois. He is 648-166 arsenic Kansas’ caput coach. Kansas made nan NCAA Tournament successful each season. He’s only had 5 seasons successful which he had astatine slightest 10 losses.
Kansas caput coach Bill Self motions towards nan tribunal during nan first half of a crippled betwixt Kansas and St. John's successful nan 2nd information of nan NCAA assemblage hoops tourney Sunday, March 22, 2026, successful San Diego. (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)
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He was inducted into nan Basketball Hall of Fame successful 2017.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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