Bill Self delivered a short, direct message to Kansas’ basketball players after the Jayhawks’ latest road setback — a sloppy 74-67 defeat to rival Kansas State on Tuesday night at Bramlage Coliseum.
“What’d he say? He said those guys played hard tonight. They outplayed us. They stuck together out there and came up with the win,” KU sophomore guard Charlie Moore revealed after the Jayhawks, who committed 23 turnovers to K-State’s 12, suffered their sixth setback in seven true road games.
Self, KU’s 16th-year coach, bristled when asked by a media member if he sensed the Jayhawks were ready to embrace a “one game at a time” mentality for upcoming games — starting with Saturday’s 11 a.