Kansas basketball coach Bill Self delivered a welcome, but somewhat startling wake-up call to senior point guard/team leader Devonté Graham on Sunday morning.
“I was shocked at first. I didn’t know what to think,” Graham, KU’s scoring and assist leader said of his reaction to Self’s interrupting Graham’s sleep to say he’d been chosen Big 12 Player of the Year in a unanimous vote of the league coaches.
“Then I was just happy because I get my name put in the rafters like coach has been saying. It just hit me and I called my mom and told her.