Bill Self's 15th season at Kansas will end at the same place on the schedule as it did for Roy Williams when he was the Jayhawks men's basketball coach: in the Final Four.
A few days after KU dropped the 2003 NCAA title game to Syracuse, Williams accepted the North Carolina job he had turned down three years earlier and completed a wildly successful tenure in Lawrence.
With one or two games remaining, Self will have reached the same length of service as his predecessor, creating a moment of equilibrium to evaluate and summarize the tenures of two of the game’s greatest coaches.