 Self in 2016 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Current position | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Title | Head coach | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Team | Kansas | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Conference | Big 12 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Record | 580–138 (.808)[A] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Annual salary | $10.6 million[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Biographical details | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | December 27, 1962 Okmulgee, Oklahoma, U.S. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing career | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1985 | Oklahoma State | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1986 | Kansas (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1986–1993 | Oklahoma State (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1997 | Oral Roberts | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1997–2000 | Tulsa | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2000–2003 | Illinois | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–present | Kansas | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Head coaching record | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Overall | 807–243 (.769)[A] | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Tournaments | 52–22 (NCAA Division I)[A] 0–1 (NIT) | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2017 (profile) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Billy Eugene Self Jr. (born December 27, 1962) is an American basketball coach who is the head coach of the Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball team. Self has held various coaching roles at the collegiate level and has been the coach of the Jayhawks since 2003.
At Kansas, Self has led the team to 17 Big 12 regular season championships (including an NCAA record 14 consecutive Big 12 regular season championships), four NCAA Final Four appearances (2008, 2012, 2018, 2022), and to the NCAA Championship in 2008 and 2022. Self has a record of 292–16 (.948 win percentage) at Allen Fieldhouse, and he has had three home winning streaks of more than 30 wins (including a school-record and 11th-best all-time 69 game streak). During his tenure at Kansas, he has recruited several McDonald's All-Americans and coached many players who went onto the NBA.
Self was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2017. At the end of the 2021–22 season, Self had the 18th most wins among Division I coaches in NCAA history and 4th among active head coaches. He is the winningest coach in Kansas history, having passed Hall of Famer Phog Allen on November 12, 2024, and is the only coach in Kansas history to lead Kansas to multiple NCAA Tournament National Championships. Self was the highest paid NCAA basketball coach for the 2021–22 season earning $10,184,282. He signed a lifetime contract extension with the Jayhawks in 2021. In 2022, Self became the seventh coach to win multiple NCAA tournament championships since the tournament field expanded to 64 teams in 1985.
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- ^ "NCAA men's basketball highest-paid coaches for 2021–22 season". USAToday.com.
- ^ Hawkins, Stephen (March 9, 2015). "Bill Self Big 12 Coach of the Year". KSNW-TV. Wichita, Kansas. Retrieved March 10, 2015.
Self is the first four-time AP Big 12 Coach of the Year winner, edging West Virginia coach Bob Huggins for this year's award.
- ^ "Kansas' Bill Self to be Inducted into Oklahoma Sports Hall of Fame". University of Kansas Official Athletic Site. January 15, 2013. Archived from the original on January 19, 2013. Retrieved January 15, 2013.