Through seven seasons at Kansas, Bill Self is 202-43 (.824 percent). Overall, Self has coached 17 seasons with a 409-148 (.734 percent) record.
In Self’s seven seasons as head coach at KU he has won one national championship, six straight regular-season Big 12 titles and four league tournament championships. In his first trip to the Final Four in 2008, Self’s team won the title. He was named just the eighth head coach in Kansas basketball history on April 21, 2003.
Self has guided his teams to 12-straight 20-win seasons and 13 overall. Self has won 10 league crowns in the last 12 years. The other two seasons resulted in runner-up conference finishes.
The 2008 Winged Foot Award recipient for winning the national title, Self is a four-time finalist for the Naismith Coach of the Year Award (2000, 2001, 2002 and 2003), and Sporting News named him National Coach of the Year in 2000 and 2009. In addition, Self is one of four coaches in NCAA Division I history to have led three different teams – Tulsa, Illinois and Kansas – to the NCAA Elite Eight.
In 2009-10, Kansas entered the year ranked No. 1 in the national polls and held that ranking for all but three polls throughout the season. In the RPI’s highest-rated conference in the nation, Kansas won its sixth-straight Big 12 regular-season title by three games with a 15-1 record. KU entered the 2010 NCAA Tournament as the overall No. 1 seed and posted 30 victories for the third time in the last four seasons.