Bill Self is the head men's basketball coach at the University of Kansas where he led the Jayhawks to the 2007-2008 NCAA national championship. Through five seasons at KU, Self has a 142-32 record. Overall, he is 349-137 in 15 campaigns. Self has an 81.6 winning percentage at Kansas, the highest winning percentage of any of the seven previous KU coaches.
In 2007-08, Kansas won a school-record 37 games and the Jayhawks have posted 70 victories in the last two seasons. Under Self, KU has won the last four Big 12 regular-season crowns, the last three conference tournament titles, has advanced to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight three times (2004, 2007 and 2008), the NCAA Tournament Final Four once (2008) and won the school’s third NCAA and fifth national title (1922, 1923, 1952, 1988 and 2008).
The 2006 Big 12 Coach of the Year, Self has won league titles in eight of his last 10 seasons – Tulsa (1999, 2000), Illinois (2001, 2002) and KU – and finished runner-up the other two years. Self has guided three teams to the NCAA Tournament Elite Eight – Tulsa, Illinois and Kansas (three times). He has recorded at least 23 wins in each of his last 10 seasons, including 2007-08, and 20-plus in 11 of his last 12.
A 1985 graduate of Oklahoma State, Self began his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Kansas in 1985-86 under Larry Brown. That team advanced to the Final Four. He then returned to his alma mater as an assistant from 1987-93 working under head coaches Leonard Hamilton and Eddie Sutton.
Self’s first head coaching position was at Oral Roberts in 1994 where he was 55-54 in four years. He took over at Tulsa in 1998 with three winning seasons before taking over at Illinois from 2001-03. He was named the eighth head coach at Kansas on April 21, 2003.
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