{"id":692856,"date":"2026-04-01T23:44:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692856\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T23:44:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T23:44:14","slug":"kansas-coach-bill-self-will-return-for-a-24th-season-with-the-jayhawks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/692856\/","title":{"rendered":"Kansas Coach Bill Self Will Return For A 24th Season With the Jayhawks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kansas<\/a> basketball coach Bill Self is returning for a 24th season with the Jayhawks.<\/p>\n

The program released a statement from Self on Wednesday confirming his return for another year with the program he has led to 21 regular-season conference championships, four Final Fours and a pair of national championships.<\/p>\n

“With renewed clarity and the ongoing support from our administration, I remain focused and committed to Kansas Basketball competing for a national championship,” Self said. “I look forward to seeing and hearing the best fans in college basketball next season at Allen Fieldhouse.”<\/p>\n

The 63-year-old Self has a record of 840-272, not including the 15 wins that were vacated by the NCAA, putting him 12th on the career list. He passed Phog Allen as the winningest coach at Kansas with a 77-69 win over Michigan State on November 12, 2024, and finished with a record of 633-167 while leading one of college basketball\u2019s most storied programs.<\/p>\n

Kansas’ season ended March 22 against St. John\u2019s and fellow Hall of Fame coach Rick Pitino in the second round of the NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks rallied from a 13-point deficit with 7 1\/2 minutes left, tying it with 13.1 seconds to go, only for the Red Storm\u2019s Dylan Darling to hit a layup as time expired to end their season.<\/p>\n

The Jayhawks have not survived the opening weekend of the tournament since 2022, when Self won his second national title.<\/p>\n

“I\u2019ve gone through some stuff off the court, so I\u2019ll get back and get with family and visit and see what\u2019s going on,” Self said following the loss in San Jose, California. “I love what I do. I need to be able to do it where I\u2019m feeling good and healthy to do it fairly well. I\u2019ll get back home and it will all be discussed.”<\/p>\n

Self’s health has been a factor to monitor.<\/p>\n

He was hospitalized just before the Big 12 Tournament in 2023 after feeling unwell, and had two stents inserted into his heart, which forced him to miss the NCAA tourney. Self had two more stents inserted last year, and this past January, he missed a game at Colorado after doctors advised him not to travel following a precautionary trip to the hospital.<\/p>\n

“When you get to be doing it as long as I\u2019ve done it, I looked at it in five-year increments. Now I\u2019m probably looking at it in more two-year increments, so to speak,” he said. “So I try to focus on this season and try to get us to a second weekend \u2014 which we failed at \u2014 so I\u2019ll go back now and break it down and see where that leads.”<\/p>\n

Self won national titles at Kansas in 2008 and 2022. And he’s been especially good at Allen Fieldhouse, historically one of college basketball\u2019s toughest venues. He is 27-6 against top-10 opponents at home, and his 131-81 record against Top 25 opposition is the third-best winning percentage among Division I coaches.<\/p>\n

He also has sent 43 players to the NBA, and more could be on the way. Darryn Peterson<\/a> is expected to be among the first three players to hear his name called in June, while Flory Bidunga<\/a> and others could also be selected in the upcoming NBA draft.<\/p>\n

Self was selected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017.<\/p>\n

Reporting by the Associated Press.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kansas basketball coach Bill Self is returning for a 24th season with the Jayhawks. The program released a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":692857,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3723],"tags":[7,217,17641,2465,3730,231,772,1544],"class_list":["post-692856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-basketball","tag-basketball","tag-college-basketball","tag-darryn-peterson","tag-flory-bidunga","tag-kansas-jayhawks","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-basketball","tag-ncaab"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116332112344070782","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/692857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}