At the end of last year’s underwhelming 11-loss season, Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self made a startling confession.
“I think for the last month I’ve been thinking about next season to be honest,” Self admitted after an 89-68 shellacking by Gonzaga in the second round of the NCAA tournament.
A glaring lack of depth made worse by a late-season wave of injuries contributed to Kansas finishing an uncharacteristic sixth in the Big 12 and winning just a single postseason game. The Jayhawks dropped five of their final seven games, leaving Self lamenting that he and his staff didn’t recruit enough “firepower” off the bench to cope with attrition and fatigue.