When you coach at a place 16 years — with ridiculous success — the season-long numbers tend to copy themselves.
The players might change under Bill Self, but his team strengths rarely do. You can count on the Jayhawks to rebound well. They will get easy baskets. They’ll hold down opponents’ field-goal percentages (or effective field-goal percentages, if you want to use the more accurate version of the stat).
And, because of that, one outlier this season has stood out more than many others.
The Jayhawks, without exception, have shared the ball well under Self. Their assist rate — or percentage of shots that are assisted — has never been below 54 percent in a season, with the team only ranking worse than 125th in the stat once.