The Latest Breaking News from Bill Self

Top programs leaning on boosts from popular transfer portal

College basketball coaches around the country are plugging holes and adding veterans to their rosters through the transfer portal

The Independent UK · May 12, 2022

Inside the Highs and Lows of the Transfer Portal

College basketball's infamous portal serves as a fun business for players, point of stress for coaches.

Sports Illustrated · May 3, 2022

Bill Self: NIL, Transfer Portal ‘Out of Control Right Now’

The Kansas coach believes movement in the sport is not happening for “the right reasons.”

Sports Illustrated · Apr 27, 2022

Mike Bianchi: One shameful moment: Bill Self wins NCAA title while his Adidas reps sit in jail

Did I miss it?

Orlando Sentinel · Apr 5, 2022

Note to self: It’s the players, Stupid

We sports scribes sure love to write about college coaches, but this basketball postseason delivered on so many levels that were entirely about the athletes.

Chicago Sun-Times · Apr 5, 2022

John Clay: Three things we learned from this year's NCAA men's basketball tournament

Not to be the bearer of bad news, but college basketball is over for 2021-22. The good news: It went out with a bang, thanks to a highly entertaining NCAA men's tournament and a drama-filled Final Four capped by Kansas' historic second-half comeback to top North Carolina's Tar Heels for…

Tribune News Service · Apr 5, 2022

'Wouldn't Dad love this?': NCAA title bears bittersweet joy for Bill Self and family

NEW ORLEANS — Here was Bill Self's wife, Cindy, hurrying to embrace him with a grandchild in one arm. Daughter Lauren was up next. And then came his ecstatic mother, Margaret, for the hug of all hugs.

Tribune News Service · Apr 5, 2022

Watch: Bill Self, Kansas Celebrate National Title in Wild Locker Room Scene

Someone should get coach a rain coat.

Sports Illustrated · Apr 5, 2022

Bill Self’s sweet championship gift to Devon Dotson, whose 2020 season with Kansas was canceled due to COVID

Devon Dotson was in the same recruiting class as Ochai Agbaji and David McCormack.

USA Today Sports Media Group · Apr 5, 2022

SI:AM | Kansas Cuts Down the Nets After a Historic Comeback

Plus, the unfortunate reason behind Armando Bacot’s late injury.

Sports Illustrated · Apr 5, 2022