Self during the 2016 Kansas Traditions Night
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Sport(s) | Basketball | |||||||||
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Current position | ||||||||||
Title | Head coach | |||||||||
Team | Kansas | |||||||||
Conference | Big 12 | |||||||||
Record | 416–87 (.827) | |||||||||
Annual salary | $4,800,000 | |||||||||
Biographical details | ||||||||||
Born |
Okmulgee, Oklahoma |
December 27, 1962 |||||||||
Playing career | ||||||||||
1981–1985 | Oklahoma State | |||||||||
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | ||||||||||
1985–1986 | Kansas (Asst.) | |||||||||
1986–1993 | Oklahoma State (Asst.) | |||||||||
1993–1997 | Oral Roberts | |||||||||
1997–2000 | Tulsa | |||||||||
2000–2003 | Illinois | |||||||||
2003–present | Kansas | |||||||||
Head coaching record | ||||||||||
Overall | 623–192 (.764) | |||||||||
Tournaments | 42–18 (.700) NCAA D-I | |||||||||
Accomplishments and honors | ||||||||||
Championships | ||||||||||
NCAA Division I (2008) 2× NCAA Final Four (2008, 2012) 7× Big 12 Tournament (2006–2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016) 13× Big 12 regular season (2005–2017) Big Ten Tournament (2003) 2× Big Ten regular season (2001, 2002) 2× WAC regular season (1998, 1999) |
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Awards | ||||||||||
NABC Coach of the Year (2016) Naismith College Coach of the Year (2012) 2x AP College Coach of the Year (2009, 2016) Henry Iba Award (2009) Adolph Rupp Cup (2012) 5x Big 12 Coach of the Year (2006, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2017) 5x AP Big 12 Coach of the Year (2006, 2009, 2011, 2015, 2016) Bleacher Report's National Coach of the Year (2016) USA Today National Coach of the Year (2016) WAC Coach of the Year (2000) John R. Wooden Award Legends of Coaching Award (2013) Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame (2013) |
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Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2017 |
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Medal record
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Billy Eugene "Bill" Self Jr. (born December 27, 1962) is an American men's college basketball coach at the University of Kansas. During his 14 seasons as head coach, he has led the Jayhawks to at least a share of 13 straight Big 12 regular season championships (2005–2017), 2 NCAA Final Four appearances (2008, 2012), and the 2008 NCAA championship. On March 31, 2017, it was announced that Self had been elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The official induction will later in 2017.
Self is a three-time National Coach of the Year (2009, 2012, 2016) and is one of four active coaches (along with Rick Pitino, Lon Kruger, and John Calipari) that have led three different teams to the Elite Eight of the NCAA Tournament (Tulsa, Illinois, and Kansas). From 2006 to 2012, he had the best six-year record of any men's coach in Division I history (197-29). As coach at Kansas, Self has a record of 202–10 (.957 win percentage) at historic Allen Fieldhouse. In his tenure at Kansas, Self has had 3 home winning streaks of more than 30 wins including an active 46 game streak, which is the longest active streak in the nation, and a school record and 11th best all-time 69 game streak. During his tenure at Kansas, he has persuaded several McDonald's All-Americans to become Jayhawks, including Mario Chalmers, Darrell Arthur, Xavier Henry, Andrew Wiggins, Cliff Alexander, Wayne Selden, Jr., Josh Jackson, and Malik Newman.