Bill Self

Bill Self

Self in 2016
Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Kansas
Conference	Big 12
Record	579–138 (.808)[A]
Annual salary	$10.6 million[1]
Biographical details
Born	(1962-12-27) December 27, 1962 (age 61) Okmulgee, Oklahoma, U.S.
Playing career
1981–1985	Oklahoma State
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
1985–1986	Kansas (assistant)
1986–1993	Oklahoma State (assistant)
1993–1997	Oral Roberts
1997–2000	Tulsa
2000–2003	Illinois
2003–present	Kansas
Head coaching record
Overall	806–243 (.768)[A]
Tournaments	52–22 (NCAA Division I)[A] 0–1 (NIT)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
2 NCAA Division I Tournament (2008, 2022) 4 NCAA Regional – Final Four (2008, 2012, 2018*, 2022)[A] 8 Big 12 tournament (2006–2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2022)[A] 16 Big 12 regular season (2005–2017, 2020, 2022, 2023)[A] Big Ten tournament (2003) 2 Big Ten regular season (2001, 2002) 2 WAC regular season (1999, 2000)
Awards
2× AP College Coach of the Year (2009, 2016) NABC Coach of the Year (2016) Naismith College Coach of the Year (2012) USBWA District Coach of the Year 2022 Adolph Rupp Cup (2012) 6× Big 12 Coach of the Year (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018)[2] 5× AP Big 12 Coach of the Year (2006, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2016) John R. Wooden Legends of Coaching Award (2013) Henry Iba Award (2009) WAC Coach of the Year (2000) Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame (2013)[3]
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2017 (profile)
Medal record Head Coach for  United States Summer Universiade 2015 Gwangju Team competition Head coach for  United States FIBA U18 Championship 2018 St. Catharines Team competition

Billy Eugene Self Jr. (born December 27, 1962) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team. Self has held various coaching roles at the collegiate level and has been the coach of the Jayhawks since 2003.

At Kansas, Self has led the team to 17 Big 12 regular season championships (including an NCAA record 14 consecutive Big 12 regular season championships), four NCAA Final Four appearances (2008, 2012, 2018, 2022), and to the NCAA Championship in 2008 and 2022. Self has a record of 292–16 (.948 win percentage) at Allen Fieldhouse, and he has had three home winning streaks of more than 30 wins (including a school-record and 11th-best all-time 69 game streak). During his tenure at Kansas, he has recruited several McDonald's All-Americans and coached many players who went onto the NBA.

Self was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017. At the end of the 2021–22 season, Self had the 18th most wins among Division I coaches in NCAA history and 4th among active head coaches. He is the second-winningest coach in Kansas history, behind only Hall of Famer Phog Allen, and is the only coach in Kansas history to lead Kansas to multiple NCAA Tournament National Championships. Self was the highest paid NCAA basketball coach for the 2021–22 season earning $10,184,282. He signed a lifetime contract extension with the Jayhawks in 2021. In 2022, Self became the seventh coach to win multiple NCAA tournament championships since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985.

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