Legendary college basketball coach unsure of future after loss to St John's

Legendary assemblage hoops manager Bill Self said Sunday helium was unsure astir his aboriginal successful the athletics aft the Kansas Jayhawks mislaid connected a buzzer-beater to St. John’s.

Self said helium wasn’t definite if helium was going to instrumentality for different season. The 63-year-old has won 2 nationalist championships successful 23 seasons with the Jayhawks. But the past fewer years person been marred owed to bosom issues and different wellness conditions.

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Kansas caput manager Bill Self reacts arsenic the squad plays California Baptist during the archetypal fractional successful the archetypal circular of the NCAA assemblage hoops tourney Friday, March 20, 2026, successful San Diego.  (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

"I’ve gone done immoderate worldly disconnected the court, truthful I’ll get backmost and get with household and sojourn and spot what’s going on," Self said. "I emotion what I do. I request to beryllium capable to bash it wherever I’m feeling bully and steadfast to bash it reasonably well. I’ll get backmost location and it volition each beryllium discussed."

Self missed a crippled astatine Colorado successful January aft taking a precautionary travel to the hospital. He besides had 2 stents inserted successful his bosom successful 2023, and 2 much past year.

When asked astir his wellness connected Sunday, Self said helium was unsure if helium was "completely" healthy.

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Kansas caput manager Bill Self yells towards the tribunal against St. John's during the archetypal fractional of a crippled successful the 2nd circular of the NCAA assemblage hoops tourney Sunday, March 22, 2026, successful San Diego.  (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

"But I’m feeling — I consciousness arsenic bully arsenic I’ve felt successful a agelong time," Self added. "I’m not making immoderate statements whatsoever. But each year, I deliberation ... erstwhile you get to beryllium doing it arsenic agelong arsenic I’ve done it, I look astatine it successful five-year increments. Now I’m astir apt looking astatine it successful much two-year increments, truthful to speak. So I effort to absorption connected this play and effort to get america to a 2nd weekend, which we failed at. So I’ll spell backmost present and interruption it down and spot wherever that leads."

The 2025-26 play ended with St. John’s defender Dylan Darling hitting a game-winning layup arsenic clip expired successful the second-round matchup.

"My vocation ain’t going to beryllium based connected 1 game," Self said erstwhile asked if it would beryllium pugnacious to extremity his vocation connected specified a crushing defeat. "I said I was going to get backmost and measure my wellness situation."

Self took implicit the Jayhawks’ occupation earlier the 2003-04 play aft 3 palmy years astatine Illinois. He is 648-166 arsenic Kansas’ caput coach. Kansas made the NCAA Tournament successful each season. He’s lone had 5 seasons successful which helium had astatine slightest 10 losses.

Kansas caput manager Bill Self motions towards the tribunal during the archetypal fractional of a crippled betwixt Kansas and St. John's successful the 2nd circular of the NCAA assemblage hoops tourney Sunday, March 22, 2026, successful San Diego.  (AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill)

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He was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame successful 2017.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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