Unable to vote for one of his own Kansas Jayhawks, Bill Self — as well as a majority of his Big 12 coaching peers — on Sunday voted Texas Tech’s Jarrett Culver the conference’s player of the year.
“I think it was a coin-flip type deal between he and Barry. I love Barry Brown (of Kansas State). The bottom line is I did vote Jarrett primarily because of numbers. I just felt Jarrett’s numbers were a little bit better,” Self said Monday night on his Hawk Talk radio show.
While stressing he felt KU’s Dedric Lawson was “the best player in the league,” Self abided by conference rules that forbid coaches from recognizing their own players.