Whether to motivate his Kansas basketball players or simply tell it as he sees it, Bill Self has selected the word “soft” to describe the play of the Jayhawks at various intervals the past 16 seasons.
He’s not gone there through five games of the 2018-19 campaign.
“One thing I know about our team moreso now than ever, I think they’ll compete and fight,” Self said of the Jayhawks (5-0). They erased a 12-point deficit against Marquette and nine-point deficit against Tennessee in a pair of wins Wednesday and Friday at the NIT Season Tip-Off in Brooklyn, N.