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Bill Self: Struggling KU basketball bench improvement is ‘imperative’

LAWRENCE — Bill Self is well aware of his team’s lack of depth.

Rather than long for reinforcements he doesn’t have, though, the Kansas basketball coach is choosing to view the glass — or bench, as it were — as half full.

“When you look at our team, instead of saying we’re only playing seven, you should say, ‘Well, they have seven starters,’ ” Self said Thursday. “That’s a way you would obviously spin it as a positive, rather than a negative.”

The No. 2 Jayhawks (15-1, 4-0 Big 12) ride a 15-game winning streak into their 1 p.